Monday Mailing
Year 20 • Issue 21 10 February 2014 1. Financial Planning for Disasters Webinar and Workbook Available for Download 2. Farm Program Atlas 3. National Good Food Network Webinars 4. New Microbusiness Publications Explore Innovations in Practice, Policy Opportunities 5. This Vending Machine Sells Fresh Salads Instead Of Junk Food 6. Some New Web Resources 7. Door to New TGM Grants to Swing Open Soon 8. Kitzhaber: CRC Will Die Without Action by March 9. Work in Eastern Oregon is Tied to The Land: Guest Opinion 10. Planning a Food Project? Where to Get The Money 11. Funding Opportunities
Quote of the Week: "There is more to life than increasing its speed." ~Mahatma Gandhi
Oregon Fast Fact #33:
The Nike "swoosh" logo was designed by University of Oregon student Carolyn Davidson in 1964 -- four years after business undergrad Phil Knight and track coach Bill Bowerman founded the company they originally called Blue Ribbon Sports. Ms. Davidson was paid $35 dollars for her design.
1. Financial Planning for Disasters Webinar and Workbook Available for Download On July 19, 2013 the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) and the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) Research Foundation hosted a webinar that focused on how regions and communities can prepare their public sectors to be more financially resilient to future disasters. Regions across the United States are faced with preparing for and responding to an increasing number of natural, man-made, and technological disasters. Given recent natural disasters, localities are taking steps to become more physically resilient; however, many are unprepared for how these financial costs will impact long-run sustainability and quality of life. In particular, this webinar helped participants consider their local governments’ financial vulnerability as well as their capacity to respond to future natural disasters based on research and lessons learned responding to tropical natural disasters along the Gulf Coast of the United States. Further, joint financial vulnerabilities between local governments in a region were identified and strategies provided for how individual local governments can increase financial capacity that improves financial resiliency for the overall region. In December 2013, a follow-up publication, “Financial Planning for Disasters: A Workbook for Local Governments and Regions” was released. This workbook is designed to help local governments and regions understand their financial vulnerabilities to natural disasters, evaluate their financial capacity to cover the costs of those disasters, identify strategies to close the gap between financial vulnerability and capacity, and identify and address the spillover effects of neighboring local governments’ financial vulnerabilities to disasters. To access “Financial Planning for Disasters” webinar and workbook, click here.
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