Please join the Urban Equity Collaborative (UEC) and the Small Business Anti-displacement Network (SBAN) for a workshop called Strengthening Resilient Communities: How to Use Main Street’s Disaster Preparedness and Resilience Toolkit with Manuel Ochoa from the Ochoa Urban Collaborative.
Not sure how to prepare for the next disaster or wondering how to make your downtown or neighborhood district more resilient? Get a first-hand look at Main Street America's (MSA) new Disaster Preparedness & Resilience Toolkit and learn the basic steps your organization can take to develop a disaster preparedness plan, how your organization can be a key partner in recovery, and find funding for building resilient infrastructure. Join Manuel Ochoa, one of the toolkits co-authors, who will provide highlights of Main Street America’s toolkit with strategies, small steps, advice, and case studies that will help your community plan, prepare, respond, and recover in the face of increasing natural disasters.
Speaker:
Manuel T. Ochoa
Principal and Founder of the Ochoa Urban Collaborative
This workshop will be live-streamed and recorded.
About UEC and SBAN
UEC is a University of Maryland initiative that employs an intersectional, multidisciplinary, and collaborative approach to community-based research. UEC hosts workshops that bring together graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty, and community leaders to discuss the multiple and compounding forms of dispossession and displacement in urban neighborhoods and their acute impacts on marginalized communities.
The Small Business Anti-Displacement Network is made up of organizations across the U.S. and abroad that work to prevent displacement of BIPOC- and immigrant-owned small businesses in gentrifying neighborhoods. Housed at the University of Maryland’s National Center for Smart Growth, SBAN includes policymakers, nonprofit advocates, technical assistance providers, real estate developers, financial institutions, scholars, and small business owners, who share knowledge and collaborate to advance innovative policies and practices that keep small businesses in place.