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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

At the same time, we see widening inequalities in who has access to recovery resources, and disparities in vulnerability that are too often predictable by socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity. In an era of threats and vulnerabilities that are increasing in complexity we need to simplify the process. 1] [link]. [2]

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4 Ways To Ensure Reliability of Your Digital Services for GivingTuesday by Jesse Maddex

PagerDuty

The growth of GivingTuesday (which takes place on the Tuesday following Black Friday) from $10 million in nonprofit donations in 2012 to more than $2 billion in 2020 shows that many people in the U.S. For example, ask about their capacity to handle a sudden increase in traffic. Back-end systems. Define your “hypercare” model.

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Panic buying toilet roll – lesson identified or learned?

Plan B Consulting

We all know that supply chains are very fine-tuned and there is very little access capacity within them. In the UK fuel crisis of 2012, many of the issues were caused by panic buying. In the supermarket business, this is especially true. If everyone knew that ‘essential’ items were not in short supply, they many not panic buy.

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Panic buying toilet roll – lesson identified or learned?

Plan B Consulting

We all know that supply chains are very fine-tuned and there is very little access capacity within them. In the UK fuel crisis of 2012, many of the issues were caused by panic buying. In the supermarket business, this is especially true. If everyone knew that ‘essential’ items were not in short supply, they many not panic buy.