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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PMI - Project Management Methodology for Post Disaster Reconstruction

Project Management Institute, Inc. (PMI)

PMI's Project Management Methodology is a downloadable file containing instructor, participant and classroom documents, presentations and worksheets available for use by relief agencies, NGOs, and governments following a major disaster.

Webinar Recording: How to Communicate Effectively Before and After a Crisis

RestoreYourEconomy.org

Webinar recording that addresses the unique challenges of communicating with and on behalf of local businesses that have been impacted by a disaster.

East Central Vermont’s Recovery after Tropical Storm Irene Paves the Way for Future Resilience

Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) and National Association of Development Organizations (NADO)

A National Association of Development Organization case study on Vermont's economic recovery post Tropical Storm Irene.

Financial Planning for Disasters Webinar and Workbook

Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) and National Association of Development Organizations (NADO)

Webinar to help participants consider their local governments financial vulnerability and their capacity to respond to future natural disasters based on lessons learned responding to tropical natural disasters along the US Gulf States.

The 5 Parts of Community Change: Assess, Plan, Act, Evaluate, Sustain

The Community Tool Box is a service of the Center for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas.

​A toolkit of resources useful for a variety of community improvement initiatives. Resources are categorized into the 5 phases every initiative needs to be successful.

Envirenew Resilience: Creating Resilient Communities

The Salvation Army - Southern Territory The Salvation Army, Area Command of Greater New Orleans | EnviRenew

​This report is the result of a discussion and research effort undertaken in 2009 to better understand post-disaster long-term recovery and pre-disaster resilience building for communities.

Use of Social Media for Disaster Recovery

University of Missouri - Extension

Guidelines for developing a local social media messaging program following a disaster. Includes lessons learned and step-by-step instructions created by the Social Media Management team from 2011 and 2012 tornado events in Joplin, MO.

Social Vulnerability in Environmental Hazards

University of South Carolina

SoVI measures the social vulnerability of U.S. counties to natural disasters and other hazards. SoVi is useful as an indicator in determining the differential recovery from disasters. This site provides data at the Census Tract level.

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