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The dictionary defines “volunteer” as “a person who performs a service willingly and without pay.” Yet, there is a great value in finding small rewards that can help bring in and retain disaster volunteers. I know that from my own experience with CERT, but I also heard a similar message at a Business Roundtable-Partnership For Disaster Response [...]

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I am always on the lookout for new ways of making preparedness fun and engaging. Often, I find such ideas percolating at the Portland-area chapter of the American Red Cross. Its Cross Blog reports that one of their ”Singles CPR” events has resulted not only in more prepared Oregonians but also a romantic match”:
That’s right…two attendees are now [...]

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The influential University of Pittsburgh Center for Biosecurity has just released a series of “Biosecurity Memos to the Obama Administration” with “strategic recommendations regarding priorities for U.S. biosecurity as well as an array of specific program recommendations.”
One of the papers is titled, ”Expanding The Public’s Role In Health Emergency Policy”, written by Monica Schoch-Spana, Brooke Courtney and Ann Norwood. It offers [...]

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