The Newsletter for Ready Rating Members

September, 2024

Maintaining Preparedness After Essential Steps Are Completed

It’s tempting to envision preparedness as a race towards an end. The focus is on completing key steps, obtaining stakeholder buy-in, developing robust emergency plans and training your staff to implement specific actions during an emergency to protect your organization’s assets. Once those steps have been completed, you’ve achieved an acceptable level of preparedness, right? Unfortunately, it’s not that simple.

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How to Create a Hazard Vulnerability Assessment

If a disaster happened in your community, how would it affect your organization? Does your organization possess both the internal and external capacity to withstand the risks related to the emergency?

As a Ready Rating member, you may have given some thought to these questions before. However, to create effective preparedness plans, organizations must ensure that they have not overlooked or underestimated potential risks. The best way to do so is to conduct a hazard vulnerability assessment (HVA). 

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SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT

American Red Cross Ready Rating Program Proudly Welcomes Global Atlantic Financial Group as a Program National Sponsor

At Global Atlantic our mission is to create more secure financial futures for millions of Americans. We do this in many ways through our solutions and service offerings, and we aim to exemplify this through the Global Atlantic Foundation. The mission of our foundation is to support small business owners and entrepreneurs facing complex, dynamic challenges. We work with multiple strategic nonprofit profit partners in a range of areas to do this.

In fall of 2023, our Giving Committee reviewed our crisis response efforts and decided to expand them. We didn’t have to search far before we came across the American Red Cross Ready Rating program.

We thought: what better way to support small business owners and entrepreneurs than to help them prepare for and mitigate the effects of a disaster?

This program ties seamlessly into our Foundation efforts and allows us to continue to refine our internal resilience plans. Because having safe and thriving employees is more important today than ever before. Our partnership gives us robust resources for something as simple as finding a place to donate blood to something more complicated as recovering after a flood.

We are excited to support the American Red Cross Ready Rating program, and to continue to support our employees and the local communities.

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