Letter for the Record

Letter by Bipartisan Policy Center.   Dear Chairman Schatz and Ranking Member Hyde-Smith: The Bipartisan Policy Center leads a Disaster Response Reform Task Force, a bipartisan group of emergency management and disaster recovery leaders focused on making federal disaster assistance programs work better for disaster survivors. On behalf of the Task Force, I want to commend…

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Encore: How to Create a Rebuild Organization with Charles Brooks

Charles Brooks

Encore: How to Create a Rebuild Organization with Charles Brooks     “Be very careful what you promise unless you know you can deliver something. There is enough heartbreak in a disaster that people don’t need to hear that you’re going to solve all their problems, and then you don’t.” –Charles Brooks   The last…

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