Citizens-Community Resilience Innovation Challenge

To bring together government, community leaders, non-profit organizations, and citizens to enhance community resilience for all-hazards emergency events. The Community Resilience Innovation Challenge program seeks to foster a culture of community resilience by identifying needs, mobilizing partners, and creating innovative, motivating, and effective solutions that can be grown, sustained, and replicated. FEMA seeks to spark the dramatic expansion and transformation of current community engagement strategies in the field of emergency management, promoting approaches that take direct steps to put local residents in leadership roles in planning, organizing, and sharing accountability for the success of local disaster management-related projects and programs. FEMA�s approach draws inspiration and direction from community policing as a philosophy of how local law enforcement institutions work with residents to identify local priorities, share information and cooperate in decisions about operational directions. The program will make communities safer, stronger, and better prepared to respond to threats of terrorism, crime, public health issues, and disasters of all kinds.

Types of Assistance: COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS