Planning Information Exchange

Project Overview

With a new award agreement granted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the successful Planning Information Exchange (PIE) webinar series has been extended for two additional years, starting October 1, 2022. APA will continue to act as the lead in an agreement with FEMA, with the Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM) as a partner. The quarterly webinars will continue to revolve around four central themes:

• The information exchange focuses on all hazards.
• The information exchange focuses primarily on mitigation planning but also its connections with recovery planning and preparedness.
• APA and ASFPM act as co-conveners of all planning exchange webinars. This means that both organizations will use their respective web-based meeting platforms to set up, register, drive, facilitate, record, and provide technical support for all webinar meetings.
• Planning exchange hosts select topics and commit to moderating, presenting, and leading the planning exchange webinars.

Upcoming Webinars

the role of community foundations in disaster mitigation

September 18, 2024, 12:00 PM CST

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Community foundations can be an overlooked actor within the realm of disaster preparedness, but stand to play an outsized role in the recovery process. Such organizations must be intentionally designed to most effectively serve an area during a time of crisis, which is what the Miami Foundation has done in Florida, a state increasingly plagued by climate disasters.

This webinar will highlight the changes that the Miami Foundation has made to its crisis response model over the past few years, including the creation of a revolving fund that can be immediately dispersed to nonprofits in the event of a disaster. It will also examine how these changes have affected the Miami area and aided in short-term recovery while discussing takeaways for other communities on how to implement these strategies themselves. The role of planners in disaster recovery and their relationship to community foundations will also be discussed.

Learning Outcomes

• Visualize the structure of community foundations and the role they can play in the pre-and post-disaster recovery process.
• Understand how planners and allied professionals can work alongside community foundations in the mitigation and recovery processes.
• Examine how the disaster recovery process in Miami has changed in recent years and potential lessons learned for other communities.

Nikisha Williams is the Vice President of Collective Impact at the Miami Foundation. Kevin Currie is a training coordinator at the Association of State Floodplain Managers.

Meet the Presenters

Presenter

NIkisha Williams

Nikisha Williams currently serves as the Vice President of Collective Impact at The Miami Foundation. Nikisha is responsible for leading large-scale change through cross-sector collaboration by bringing together government, philanthropy, nonprofits, and corporations together to solve major community challenges in bold ways that couldn't be accomplished without collective action. Nikisha's career spans the public sector and communications, where she most recently served as Chief Operating Officer of the Opa-Locka Community Development Corporation, where she was responsible for leading the operations of the organization, including human resources, marketing, fund development, as it expanded its placemaking, workforce development, health, and arts/culture initiatives in the community. Before that, Nikisha served as the Director of Employee Communications and Change at C&W Communications, a telecommunications company with operations with more than 7,500 employees in 30 countries throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. Before her role at C&W Communications, she managed communications for C-suite executives at AT&T in both New York and Dallas.

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moderator

Kevin Currie

Kevin Currie, ASFPM's training coordinator since July 2018, works with staff, volunteer leadership, members, and chapters to identify training needs. He is responsible for managing, developing, and deploying ASFPM's comprehensive training program. This is his second term of employment with ASFPM, having previously worked for the association from 2012 to 2015 as our membership coordinator. He received his BA in political science from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire in 2010.

View Presentations from Past Webinars

Previous webinars are available to be viewed anytime and anyplace shortly after their debut.

• National Risk Index Applications in Hazard Mitigation Planning: Practitioner Case Studies (May 15, 2024) CM | 1
• Cross-Agency Coordination for Effective Hazard Mitigation and Recovery (December 15, 2023) CM | 1.5
• The Only Constant is Change: Hazard Mitigation Updates (May 18, 2023) CM | 1.5
• Foresight and Scenario Planning for Hazard Mitigation and Climate Adaptation (October 31, 2022) CM | 1
• Lost In Planning: Interdependent Vulnerabilities And Compounding Climate Threats (September 27, 2022) CM | 1
• Equitable Hazard Mitigation: Practice-Informed Recommendations for Change (July 25, 2022) CM | 1
• New Research on State Resilience Planning Practices (May 26, 2022) CM | 1
• The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: A Primer for Planners and Floodplain Managers (December 15, 2021) CM | 1
• Addressing Urban Heat at Regional and Local Scales (October 15, 2021) CM | 1
• The Law's the Limit: Sea Level Rise Adaptation and Local Government (September 3, 2021) CM | 1.5
• Linking Conservation and the FEMA Community Rating System: Tools to Protect Habitat, Enhance Coastal Resilience and Reduce Flood (April 15, 2021)
• USACE Inundation Mapping (December 18, 2020)
• Planning for Wildfire: From Assessing Risk to Long-Term Mitigation (November 20, 2020)
• Visualization and Datasets for Flood Loss Reduction (October 27, 2020)
• Increasing Our Resiliency to Urban Flooding (November 21, 2019)
• Planning for Drought and Cascading Hazards (August 15, 2019)
• Go Green with GASB62! (April 25, 2019)
• Flood Economics (February 13, 2019)
• Current Research Topics in Disasters, Hazard Mitigation, and Resilience (October 9, 2018)
• Flood Risk Reduction: Putting Planning Into Practice (July 18, 2018)
• The Fire/Flood Dynamic: Linkages, Tools, and Actions (May 15, 2018)
• Flood Hazard Mitigation in Historic Districts (January 31, 2018)
• Planning Integration for Resilience Scorecard (October 4, 2017)
• Naturally Resilient Communities (May 30, 2017)
• Post-Disaster Temporary Housing: Urban Planning Considerations (March 23, 2017)
• Subdivision Design and Flood Hazard Areas (December 2, 2016)
• State Resiliency Initiatives: From Issue to Action! (September 22, 2016)
• Combining Climate Adaptation and Hazard Mitigation Plans (July 7, 2016)
• Know Your Dam Risk! (May 6, 2016)
• Adapting Urban Vacant Land to Mitigate Hazards (February 26, 2016)
• Hazard Mitigation Implementation (December 10, 2015)
• Hazards Planning and Resilience: The Elected Official's Perspective (October 19, 2015)
• Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience (June 30, 2015)
• The Role of Hazard Mitigation in Post-Disaster Recovery (May 6, 2015)