Project Purpose:
Provide community leaders, development organizations, economic developers, chamber executives, and business owners a framework for disaster preparation that looks beyond the immediate steps needed to address a crisis to long-lasting recovery as well as prevention efforts.
Project Background:
SIMPCO collaborated with the Iowa Association of Councils of Governments (ICOG), the U.S. Department of Economic Development Administration (EDA), and the consulting group Capture Management Solutions to create a regional resource for business, government, and development organizations to assist with navigating and mitigating crises. The EDA provided funding through the 2020 CARES Act.
Future Impact:
- Help community leaders, businesses, governments, and organizations be more equipped to prepare for and adapt to changing conditions as well as to withstand and recover quickly from crises
- Provide an up-to-date resource guide for the region
- Offer downloadable materials like assessment and planning worksheets for organizations to address:
- Preparing to be resilience
- Managing to be resilience
- Marketing to be resilience
- Financing to be resilient
- Aid the Siouxland Region be more a more resilient community
To find out more and to access the Resilience Toolkit, visit https://www.iowaresilience.com/simpco or access the toolkit.
