DISASTER PREPAREDNESS MANUAL FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

DISCLAIMER:

The Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits is a nonprofit agency whose mission is to empower nonprofits to achieve excellence in their missions. The resources provided in this manual are educational and should not be considered legal advice, medical or health advice, or evaluative for insurance or other purposes. Nonprofit organizations should consult with their insurance providers, legal counsel, or other professionals when constructing their disaster preparedness plan.

Nonprofit organizations are encouraged to maintain their plans and update them with current recommendations, regulations, and requirements. Examples given here which are current at the time of writing may become outdated. OKCNP recommends seeking the latest advice and information from disaster preparedness agencies, including national, state, and local emergency management offices, and health officials

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:

We would like to thank many of our community partners who aided in the creation of this plan for the nonprofit sector. Their expertise and insights was immensely valuable and a testament to the quality of preparedness resources that have always been available to nonprofit agencies. That we could bring their experience together in one document is also a tribute to their interest in collaboration and willingness to be so generous with the tools, templates, they use as well as their time already devoted to this work.

Though there were many who contributed, we would like to especially thank the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management, namely David Barnes and Ed Cravens who shared the additional resources used by non-metro counties. Our partners at the Disaster Resilience Network, especially their Executive Director, Tim Lovell, provided resources and expertise along the way, and their commitment to providing disaster preparedness to communities as a nonprofit organization is invaluable. The United Way of Central Oklahoma, and Debbby Hampton for sharing her immense experience as a former executive director of the Red Cross and the responses her agency was involved in the multiple tornados that occur in central Oklahoma. Miki Farris with Infant Crisis Services generously shared their preparedness plan included in this manual. And, Amy Coates-Madsen at the Standards for Excellence© Institute who had the forethought to include in that vast library of resources a disaster preparedness plan that nonprofits have been using for more than a decade.

Manualwaslastupdatedon3/18/2020