The Disaster Resilience Network

“Expenses advertising 10,706 office expenses 798 information technology 144 travel expenses 714 in-kind home creations 447 work-shop expenses 2,047 insurance expense 2,583 bank & paypal service fee 527 dues & subscriptions 590 telephone 1,577 fortified program expense 5,000 total 25,133”

“Accounts payable and accrued expenses 0 845 sba.gov - ppp loan 0 8,600”

“The mission and purpose of the disaster resilience network is to empower people, businesses and communities to reduce the impact of disasters.”

“The disaster resilience network (drn) promotes its mission through a variety of collaborative efforts of public outreach coordinated by our paid staff, with leadership from volunteers and the involvement of organizational partners. We have three core programs, each led by a multi-sector council. -one drn program is the disaster resilient cross-cultural council. A grassroots network of multicultural and multilingual groups, the cross- cultural council works with these many communities to help their members prepare for disasters, and to help all people receive emergency communications in a way they can understand. We have continued monthly meetings of our council to coordinate activities among the different cultural communities on preparedness. The cross-cultural council major focus has continued to be outreach with the "emergency preparedness: real stories" video series sponsored by and developed in conjunction with tcc's center for creativity. In these recordings, a community representative presents either a personal or communal experience with disaster in the home language of the target audience. When these videos are screened at a community event, a subject matter expert, with an interpreter, responds to questions and shares information on emergency preparedness. These videos have been produced in american sign language (asl), arabic, burmese (zomi) english, russian, spanish and urdu and have been shown at local churches and community meetings. This included special presentations arranged with the city of tulsa working in neighborhoods department and in conjunction with the city of tulsa engineering services as a part of the program for public information, referenced below. We also used these videos as part on an online version of the asian american festival held during the pandemic. The videos can be found at https://www.disasterresiliencenetwork.org/crosscultural-council-info. As in previous years, the cross-cultural council has continued to have booths at multicultural events like the back to school resource fair in tulsa and the union public schools freshman expo, mexican consulate visits where they had a booth, the tulsa health fair, and other events using volunteers from our partners and from the oklahoma medical reserve corps. Our endeavors were quickly curtailed by the covid pandemic in march 2020. -another drn program is led by our disaster resilient business council. The drbc is a public/private partnership designed to educate businesses and nonprofits about the need for emergency and continuity planning, to offer networking opportunities for those interested in business emergency and continuity planning, and to assist in promoting the critical role of businesses and nonprofits in a community's disaster resiliency. We engaged the tulsa chamber of commerce and with the u.s. Army corps of engineers looked at broader community wide issues tied to business continuity. The disaster management for long term care facilities workshops were fully integrated into the drbc and we held workshops in muskogee and planned to hold one in tahlequah which was cancelled due to the pandemic. A member of the drbc served on a business preparedness panel in central oklahoma. The drbc is listed in the city of tulsa program for public information as assisting with sharing information with businesses on planning for floods and other disasters and a business continuity workshop online is planned in the fall 2020. -another drn program is coordinated by the disaster resilient housing council. The housing council is a collaborative venture to help people live safely and in harmony with nature and is particularly focused on stronger building standards and low impact development. It wants to promote a "resilience for all" approach that makes sure everyone has access to resilient homes. A major focus of this year for the housing council, as with previous years, has been the partnership with the insurance institute for business and home safety (ibh”