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Preparing Alaska's Cultural Organizations for Emergencies Course

A training program especially designed for staff at collecting institutions in Alaska

Module 8

Learning Outcomes

Identify resources and assistance available from FEMA, insurance, disaster vendors, and national resources.
Understand the importance of developing relationships with disaster vendors BEFORE an incident. They create preferred customer lists.

Module Introduction

Introduction to Module 8
Read this introduction from CJ.

Webinars

Resources for Response and Recovery
Lori Foley of the Heritage Emergency National Task Force shares recovery steps and national resources available to Alaska institutions.

Resources from Lori Foley
This document includes links and resources mentioned in Lori's presentation or pertinent to her presentation.

Working with a Disaster Recovery Vendor
Disaster recovery specialist James Gilbert discusses what disaster vendors do and how cultural organizations can best work with them.

Assignments

Does your institution carry insurance for the building(s) and collection? Discuss coverage with your agent. Arrange for the agent to tour your facility. Develop an information sheet for each insurance company.
Start to develop relationships with vendors. Develop an information sheet for each as you choose which might be best for your institution.

To Complete your Plan

Draft a Title Page for your plan: Include the next full-plan review date: January 2027. The plan should be updated every year, but have a full review every 5 years; also include names of planning team members.
Draft an Introduction for your plan.

Resources

Disaster Recovery Vendors

Establishing Relationships with Disaster Recovery Vendors (COSTEP Massachusetts)
Avoiding Ambulance Chasers: Working with Emergency Recovery Vendors (Connecting to Collections, watch to 39:24)

Insurance

Insurance: How to Manage Your Organization’s Risk (Connecting to Collections webinar)

Disaster Recovery

An Arts Field Guide to Federal Disaster Relief
National Heritage Responders
Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMA Public Assistance Grant Program
The Thomas Wolfe Memorial 15 Years Later (2013)
- This discusses long term recovery.

Practicing your Plan

A Preservation Planning Tool: Table Top Planning Scenarios, Levels of Collections Emergency