all recovery is local
After FEMA, we can still count on First Responders to do their jobs well. Some federal funds may even continue mitigation and preparedness through other agencies.
But the difference — the real difference — is how your community gets itself ready to bounce back from unexpected events, large and small.
It’s all about recovery.
The goal of recovery is to quickly restore each business, industry, farm, bank, park, school, hospital, volunteer, worship house, nonprofit, and others. But, those organizations do not have time, money, or interest in emergency management. Which is why faster, smarter recovery depends on proven, efficient, affordable technology.
The After FEMA: Community Recovery Playbook shows us how dozens of local organizations can team effectively. And the SpotOnResponse mobile app is what brings them together to:
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Coordinate in Advance
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Communicate During Events
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Cooperate to Recover
Building recovery into the DNA of the community starts with a new source of funding, the
SpotOnResponse Business–Community Partnership.
This gives the entire community access to the SpotOnResponse mobile app — 100 users across the community —
for just $1,000 a year.
Watch this three-minute video to see what SpotOnResponse makes possible to speed recovery and then explore how local organizations become community recovery partners.
The Playbook in Action: Coordinate, Communicate, Cooperate
Coordinate in Advance
Communicate During Events
Cooperate to Rebuild
Build readiness through shared planning and mini-exercises.
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Recruit local governments, businesses, and nonprofits before disaster strikes
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Meet the new National Risk Register requirement to know for what to plan and how
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Plan together with shared maps, contact directories, and resource inventories
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Run mini-drills, simulations, and training exercises across your whole community
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Automate staging of available assets, facilities, and personnel for rapid activation
Stay connected when it matters most with real-time visibility.
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Trusted field reports exchanged among 100+ locations on current events and actions needed
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Share availability and location of staff, volunteers, vehicles, and assets on a dynamic map
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Centralize what each business or organization needs to reopen and what they have to offer to others
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Understand the whole supply chain to know how to bring relief from out-of-area resources
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Send real-time announcements and situational updates to your entire public and private network
Rebuild and recover with shared resources and accountability.
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Build momentum fast among trusted agencies, businesses, and community groups
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Share needs, offers, and updates to speed mutual aid and reconstruction support
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Track reopening status and recovery milestones across the community
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Enable transparent reporting and damage documentation for all stakeholders
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Control misinformation and rumors by keeping channels open to the whole community
Why SpotOnResponse Is The Best for After FEMA?
In a world where anything can happen, trust the best to keep you informed, and keep you safe. SpotOnResponse provides superior solutions because our team is led by proven industry experts who know what FEMA did right, did wrong, and what should come next.
James W. Morentz, Ph.D., was part of the team that invented Comprehensive Emergency Management at the National Governors' Association and was a consultant to the President's Reorganization Project that created FEMA. He then spent more than 35 years applying the latest technologies to improve emergency management for federal, state, and local governments, the military, international agencies, and private sector organizations. Jim founded SpotOnResponse to take advantage of the current generation of advanced and affordable mobile technologies.
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Craig Fugate, former head of FEMA in the Obama Administration, is a partner in SpotOnResponse. Craig was Florida Emergency Management Director under Gov. Jeb Bush, where he launched the "Whole Community" approach to emergency management. With his operational and policy expertise, SpotOnResponse developed the ultimate emergency management tool for government, corporate, infrastructure, and volunteer organizations.
For more information about Jim, Craig, and the rest of our team, see ABOUT.
It's Time to Get SpotOnResponse Through the Business-Community Partnership
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learn how to convince a sponsor
We're here to help you secure a sponsor for the $1,000 annual subscription to SpotOnResponse. The button below gets you the Sponsor Outreach Kit. It includes an introduction email and an electronic brochure. With the Kit you can easily approach potential sponsors who share your vision to request that they subscribe.
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learn how to sponsor a community
Any business, community organization, or other group is eligible to subscribe to the SpotOnResponse mobile app and web application. Then you donate access to 100 individuals or organizations, more than enough to empower the whole community to better coordinate response and speed recovery.
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sign up to Sponsor your community
With FEMA and the Feds pulling back, sponsoring lets you take action, build for the future, calm community concern, and provide tangible evidence that the community has sound leadership. For only $1000 you can take your community from fearing the loss of FEMA to building your After FEMA resiliency.