Communities thrive and demonstrate resilience when the social fabric is strong day-to-day, and when the community is disaster ready.

Blue Skies & Gray Skies

Our customers use the language of blue skies to talk about day-to-day ongoing services, and gray skies for those periods of crisis when disasters strike. We get that. That’s why we build for both, so communities can be prepared, resilient, and fully able to recover when the worst happens.

Using solutions designed to support both blue and gray skies means that everyone knows how to use the tools when they are needed most. This approach saves money, training time, and helps to sustain the partnerships that must work during disasters, and long after the initial impact.

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Whole of Community

The fact is, homelessness, poverty, hunger and financial stress exist everyday—and are, obviously, made much worse by crisis. When disasters strike, a whole network of players assists the vastly larger numbers of people in need. Our technology extends across the spectrum of chronic needs and disaster relief, to support the agencies weaving the safety nets for the most vulnerable.

This holistic approach is unique and provides an approach that reflects how communities actually respond to daily challenges as well as acute emergencies. This is the one technology platform that scales and adapts to every contingency helping agencies may face. Learn more about FEMA’s approach to Whole Community.

Multi-Purpose Solutions

As examples, volunteering solutions, goods and services donations, client intake and case management solutions can all be designed to pivot from blue to grey skies—while building on the users, roles, partners, and data already captured.

Disasters require up-to-date community service information, and high volume data exchange systems for recovery. Then—after the disaster the long-term recovery work begins, and again, this is best done with those same community partners. It's obvious actually—working together, during blue and grey skies, works better.

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