This document discusses challenges and strategies for building an emergency response network in New Orleans cultural heritage communities. It outlines existing resilience plans and organizations in New Orleans, including challenges of governance structure, data management, membership, and fundraising. Options are presented for centralized vs decentralized leadership structures and web integration of various applications. Next steps include writing a strategic plan, increasing the membership base in various cultural sectors, and fundraising for supplies, accounts, and web hosting to support the emergency response network.

1. A Big Easy? New
Orleans, Cultural
Heritage Communities,
and Building a Network
for Emergency
Response
Jennifer Waxman and Eli Boyne
RMBS 2019
Baltimore, MD
June 21, 2019

2. NOPC and Alliance for Response
www.nolapreservationcoalition.org

3. Resilience and Sustainability
➢ New Orleans Master Plan (adopted 2010, revised
2016-2018)
➢ Resiliency Strategy (adopted 2015)
➢ Hazard Mitigation Plan (updated every 5yrs, latest 2015)
➢ Convening of Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster
(VOAD) (2018)

4. New Orleans Master Plan
(adopted 2010, revised 2016-2018)
https://www.nola.gov/city-planning/master-plan/

5. Resiliency Strategy
(2015)
http://resilientnola.org/

6. New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and
Emergency Preparedness: Hazard Mitigation
Plan (2005, revised every 5yrs)
Goal #4: Maximize the involvement of individuals, business, and
groups in risk reduction measures through education/outreach on
hazard mitigation appropriate to all groups, particularly vulnerable
populations.
Goal #5: Promote coordination locally, regionally, and nationally
including all levels of government, private sector entities, as well as
nonprofits and community based organizations.
Goal #6: Ensure continuity of operations for local government and
businesses, including protection of critical functions, records and
cultural assets.
https://www.nola.gov/hazard-mitigation/

7. New Orleans Office of Homeland
Security and Emergency Preparedness
(NOHSEP)
NOPC attended a Hurricane
Tabletop exercise organized by
the New Orleans Office of
Homeland Security and
Emergency Preparedness (May
2019)

8. Challenges: establish a reliable response
network
● inclusive governance structure
● method to maintaining sensitive data
● membership base across multiple sectors
● fundraising
What do you need?

9. Challenges: governance
Centralized structure
● Executive Committee: chair,
vice chair, secretary, treasurer,
2 members-at-large, member
liaison
● Committees: Finance,
Education/Programming,
Marketing/Outreach/Web,
NOAfR, Nominating (ad-hoc)
Decentralized structure
● Leadership committee:
coordinators from committees
● Committees: Finance,
Education/Programming,
Marketing/Outreach/Web,
NOAfR, Nominating (ad-hoc),
Membership
CURRENT FUTURE?

10. Challenges: data and web integration
Web integration--all the apps
● Google Drive (free)
● Mailchimp (free)
● Eventbrite (free)
● GoDaddy ($120/yr)
● Squarespace ($216/yr)
● Slack (free)
● Stripe (2.9% + $.30 per successful charge)
● Zapier (free)
● Facebook (free)
● Twitter (to come?)
● Instagram (do we have to?!)

11. Challenges: membership
Individual: $11
Institutional: $26
(includes Stripe
processing fees)

12. Challenges: membership sign-up fields
● First Name
● Last Name
● Title or Occupation
● Email
● Phone
● Membership Level
● Institution/Business
● Physical Address Line 1
● Physical Address Line 2
● Physical Address City
● Physical Address State
● Physical Address Zip Code
● Physical Address Country
● Mailing Address Line 1
● Mailing Address Line 2
● Mailing Address City
● Mailing Address State
● Mailing Address Zip Code
● Mailing Address Country
● Affiliation or Institution/Business Info: For
individual memberships, please provide us
with more information about your affiliations.
For institutions, please provide us with more
information about your site. (Check boxes)
● Other Affiliation or Institution/Business Info:
Please add any other information related to
your affiliation or institution/business
● Additional Properties or Sites Address Line 1:
Storage, performance, office, etc.
● Additional Properties or Sites Address Line 2
● Additional Properties or Sites Address City
● Additional Properties or Sites Address State
● Additional Properties or Sites Address Zip
Code
● Additional Properties or Sites Address
Country
● Damage Assessment Info: For Institutional
membership, please add any information
about your organization, collections, and
buildings for damage assessment teams
● First Name of Alternate Contacts
for Organization
● Last Name of Alternate Contacts
for Organization
● Alternate Contact Title
● Alternate Contact Email
● Alternate Contact Phone
● Are you interested in joining the
NOAfR? For institutional
memberships only

13. Challenges: next steps
● Write strategic plan
○ 1-2 yr, 3-5 yr
○ Involve members in drafting
○ Fill committees to complete objectives
● Increase membership base
○ Grassroots museums
○ Performing arts and arts businesses
○ First responders/emergency managers
● Fundraising
○ Storage unit for emergency supply cache
(estimate $1200/yr)
○ Business checking account ($60/yr)
○ Web hosting and domain (+$250/yr)

14. THANK YOU!
www.nolapreservationcoalition.org
nolapreservationcoalition@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/nolapreservationcoalition