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Fairfax County’s Ready Fairfax to launch COAD, recruit nonprofits and volunteers ahead of disasters
Summary
Ready Fairfax announced a Community Organizations Active in Disaster (COAD) initiative to map and recruit nonprofits, houses of worship and businesses to support Fairfax County during emergencies; the webinar also reviewed volunteer sign-up, VET roles and resident alert systems.
A Ready Fairfax presenter announced on a February webinar that Fairfax County will launch a Community Organizations Active in Disaster (COAD) initiative to pre-identify local nonprofits, community-based organizations, houses of worship and businesses that could assist during emergencies.
“Ready Fairfax is our preparedness program,” the presenter said, adding that the county will begin outreach to organizations that can provide services such as feeding, debris removal, donations distribution or case management. “We are going to be launching, a COAD, which is community organizations active in disaster,” the presenter said, describing the effort as a way to build relationships “before disaster happens.”
The county plans to build the…
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