Community Recovery Management Toolkit

Disaster recovery is a time of tremendous pressure and work at the community level. Local officials are faced with pressure to rebuild quickly, communicate with stakeholders, resolve conflicts, seek funding from a variety of different agencies, and respond to new grant, contract, and financial requirements. However, disaster recovery is also a time of significant opportunity for communities to rebuild in a thoughtful and resilient way.

The resources in this toolkit are geared toward helping community leaders through the long-term disaster recovery process and are intended to be useful at any phase of recovery.

Key Post-Disaster Recovery Resource Topics

Browse our "key resources," which are curated collections to help you get started, or search the full library.

Organize and Lead

Are you trying to determine how to organize or lead your community through disaster recovery?

Manage Grants & Finances

Are you concerned about grant management, community finances, or rules about disaster funding?

Assess, Plan & Decide

Do you want to know how to make informed and strategic decisions for your recovery?

Identify Funding Programs

Do you want to know more about disaster recovery funding and assistance programs?

Search the Full Recovery Management Toolkit

Search through the filterable library of recovery management information to quickly find tools, resources, examples and trainings that most fit your community’s needs. Click the resource's title to see all the information.

NOTICE
Resources provided are for informational purposes only and are compiled with publicly available information. Please directly consult the provider of a potential resource for current program information and to verify the applicability and requirements of a particular program. When you go to another website you are subject to its privacy policies. FEMA does not endorse any non-government websites, companies, or applications.

FEMA is currently reviewing the resources of the roadmap to align with Executive Orders that occurred on or after January 20, 2025.

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Cedar Rapid's Flood Recovery and Investment Plan

The City of Cedar Rapids Recovery and Reinvestment Plan outlines their comprehensive plan for flood recovery and reinvestment following flooding in 2008.

City of Cedar Rapids Neighborhood Recovery Planning Process: Executive Summary

Provides a framework for the city's neighborhood planning process, the plan's purpose, and presents the city's vision.

Recovery Resources Book: Grand Forks Flood Disaster & Recovery Lessons Learned

Resource book compiling lessons learned from Grand Forks' flood recovery in 2011.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Flood Recovery Progress Website

Sample recovery project index and timelone from the City of Cedar Rapids.

Cedar Rapids Flood Recovery: Interview with Christine Butterfield

Interview with former director of Community Development for the City of Cedar Rapids Iowa, regarding the extensive planning effort to rebuild the City of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after a record-breaking flood in June 2008.

2009 City of Cedar Rapids Framework Plan for Reinvestment and Recovery

This framework details the local strategies to invest and rebuild neighborhoods devastated by the 2008 flooding?.

Joplin Pays it Forward: Community Leaders Share Our Recovery Lessons

This book is a collection of essays written by community leaders, public safety officials, and volunteer coordinators about lessons learned during the Joplin, Missouri rebuilding efforts.

Cedar Rapids Flood Recovery: An Interview with Christine Butterfield

Podcast interview with former director of Community Development for the City of Cedar Rapids Iowa, regarding the extensive planning effort to rebuild the City of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after a record-breaking flood in June 2008.

Flood Recovery Planning

Examples of the two-phased River Corridor Redevelopment planning process (the framework for reinvestment and a neighborhood planning process.

Big Thompson River Restoration Master Plan

Provides overall guidance to assess, prioritize, and implement river restoration projects that provide increased resiliency to local communities, the economy, and the river ecology.

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