About this event
This event is provided by Community Service Center
Resilience is more than a buzzword. Resilience and disaster recovery planning are economic imperatives in a modern economy. Is your downtown ready for a disaster? Join us for this free workshop to learn more about how you can build resilience and reduce risks to businesses in your community. Designed for communities on the Oregon Coast (but open to anyone interested in economic resilience or business recovery), this workshop will:
Connect you with others business leaders in the region
Make the business case for preparation and planning
Introduce business resilience and disaster recovery concepts
Present business specific risk reduction strategies
Provide tools and ideas you can use in your community
Inspire actions that can increase business resilience in your community
Join Ed MacMullan, Economist at ECONorthwest and Josh Bruce, Director of the UO Oregon Partnership for Disaster Resilience for this hands-on workshop. Box lunch provided. This workshop is presented with support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, The Ford Family Foundation and the Community Service Center at the University of Oregon.