Disaster Recovery Webinar Series
This webinar series explores the pivotal role that financial institutions and philanthropy can play in helping communities recover and thrive after disasters. The series will examine strategies to preserve community assets, prevent predatory displacement and ensure that recovery efforts evolve into long-term stability and growth.
Disasters can strike without warning, and research shows that 40 percent of small businesses that experience a major disruption never reopen. However, there are tools and partnerships that funders, banks and leaders can invest in to ensure that businesses and communities are ready for whatever comes next.
Attendees will hear about:
- Lessons learned from the Hill Country Disaster Relief Program, which provides both emergency grants and interest-free loans to small businesses;
- BeforeDuringAfter as a resource for helping communities and businesses prepare, respond and recover; and
- The roles of philanthropy and financial institutions in helping small businesses recover and thrive after disasters.
Agenda
| 11:00 a.m. | Welcome remarks Armida Riojas, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas |
| 11:10 a.m. | Discussion
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| 11:50 a.m. | Closing remarks Kelty Garbee, Texas Rural Funders |
This webinar focuses on affordable housing, exploring philanthropic strategies to rebuild, preserve affordability and stabilize families for the long term.
Online registration coming soon.
What participants will gain:
- A clear picture of who is leading recovery efforts across sectors and where strategic partnerships are most needed.
- High-level insights on both immediate needs and long-term opportunities to guide investment decisions.
- Inspiration and practical models for collective action in affordable housing and small business recovery.
- A forward-looking lens to shape responsive, resilient and equitable investments to unnatural disasters in the Texas Hill Country and beyond.