NOAA 2014-2015 Educational Partnership Program with Minority Serving Institutions

The NOAA Educational Partnership Program with Minority Serving Institutions Undergraduate Scholarship Program is accepting applications.  Program encourages advisers, mentors, and potential applicants to take advantage of the NOAA resources made available in this message.  Competitive applications: (i) address the NOAA mission; (ii) have resume and personal statements that are crafted to be relevant to the NOAA mission, and (iii) have recommendations that are well developed and made relevant to the NOAA mission.

What:  Provides scholarships for two years of undergraduate study. 

Who:  Rising junior undergraduate students majoring in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields that directly support NOAA's mission. 

The Program:

• Students receive total awards valued at up to $35,000 in total support during their junior and senior years. 
• Students complete a nine week paid summer internship at NOAA in Silver Spring, MD, between May and July of the first summer. During the second summer, students complete paid internships at NOAA facilities across the country. During the summer internships, students are paid a stipend and receive a housing allowance. 
• Student scholarship recipients attend a two-week orientation at NOAA in Silver Spring, MD, and begin their first summer internship in early June.
• At the end of both summer internships, students present the results of their projects at an education and science symposium in Silver Spring, MD (travel expenses paid).

Undergraduate Scholarship Application Link:  https://oedwebapps.iso.noaa.gov/uspa/

International OR U.S. National Exercise Event. September 11, 2014

http://www.drc-group.com/project/rrce.html

September 11, 2001 marked one point in a new era in response, recovery, and to a greater extent the PROACTIVE planning to emergency\disaster events within the U.S.  Airports, and other transportation sectors closed for days, and weeks to ensure a threat was contained and response plans reviewed and implemented.

The closing of the city of Boston, Massachusetts transportation, and business sectors closed for days to contain a known threat, a suspect in the Boston Marathon Bombing of 2013.  

BEMA members throughout the U.S, Caribbean, Central & South America, African Union member states, the Middle-East, and throughout the diaspora, September is the U.S. National Preparedness month.  Join every member of BEMA in participating in preparedness activities throughout the entire month of September.

Exercises whether in the form of drills, table-tops, functional, or full-scale are a key to determine vulnerabilities in your plans, procedures, and in communication. 

Register and plan for your communities to participate in the following FREE influenza pandemic exercise scheduled for September 11, 2014 NOT ONLY IN THE U.S. BUT INTERNATIONALLY.  

Plan for your communities to be resilient, and sustainable.  Sometimes changing one word from INFLUENZE to EBOLA, or INFLUENZA to ANTHRAX can make a difference in your community response and in saving lives.

Be safe, be prepared.

Charles D. Sharp.  CEO.  Black Emergency Managers Association (BEMA) 

Exercise Date/Time

Date	Thursday, September 11, 2014
Time	Participant Login: 4:30 PM Exercise Begins: 5:00 PM

National Neighborhood Influenza Pandemic Readiness & Response Exercise

Good & Ready, the disaster preparedness and response program of Points of Light, has developed an easy way to engage neighborhood residents and community volunteers in becoming Good & Ready for an Influenza Pandemic by participating in “Resilient Response,” a disaster readiness and response exercise hosted online and available in communities across the country.

Influenza Pandemic Exercise

For additional information and to register yourself or your organization to participate in the Influenza Pandemic Exercise scheduled for the evening of September 11, 2014 visit the following web site today:

  

www.ResilientResponseExercise.org

This important exercise is FREE and open to the public.

Neighborhood residents and community leaders should organize their friends, family, neighbors and co-workers to participate in the exercise series.

Four steps to participating in a Resilient Response exercise:

1.     Click here for additional information and to register.

2.     Mark the date of the exercise on your calendar. 

3.     Host an exercise from your family room, office, church or school.

4. Share what you learned on the Good & Ready website.

BEMA...Every Month is Preparedness Month.....September is National Preparedness Month

TO our members in Canada, South & Central America, the Caribbean, Cuba, Nigeria, Togo, Kenya, and the Middle-East join your U.S. members in planning a preparedness week or day in solidarity & unity of all our communities.

Join our members in Nigeria currently experiencing the devastating effect of the Ebola pandemic affecting the nations of West Africa, and in hope that all the member nations of the African continent select a scheduled date(s) to show solidarity & unity by joining Sierra Leone, Liberia, and others by voluntarily closing their borders, transportation sectors, and reviewing their public health plans and procedures to contain this disease.

September is a month of preparedness, and reflection on September 11, 2001 where the entire country reacted to a planned threat and shut-down all both internal and external transportation (airlines) sectors to contain a threat to ensure the nation, the constituents of the U.S., and world that the U.S. was safe.

Be safe, Be prepared.

Charles D. Sharp.  CEO.  Black Emergency Managers Association

http://www.ready.gov/september

During National Preparedness Month  you, your family, community and workplace can take action by planning a National PrepareAthon! Day on or around September 30th. Recommend that you use digital media tools as a way to promote National Preparedness Month, September 1-30th.

What you can do to promote National Preparedness Month:

• Check out the How to Get Involved in NPM Quick Guide
• Download the 2014 National Preparedness Month Digital Engagement Toolkit
• Share NPM messages on Social Media
• View and share the new Ready Campaign Public Service Announcements
• Join Thunderclap message on let your followers know that it’s National Preparedness Month with your followers. How does Thunderclapwork? Once you sign up, Thunderclap will sync your social media accounts to release an automatic Facebook post, Tweet or both on September, 2, 2014 at 2:00 PM reminding your friends and followers to make a family emergency plan.
• Join the National Preparedness Community and download the high resolution NPM logo
• Promote NPM by updating your Facebook and Twitter cover photo and profile image
• For NPM materials in Spanish please visit:www.ready.gov/es/septiembre
• Register for National PrepareAthon! Day: www.ready.gov/prepare

Federal Grants to Local Fire Departments Offer Up-to-Date Equipment and Training to Stations Large and Small

BEFORE THE DOOR IS SHUT!

Paradigm Shift:  

                     Redirecting grants and funding from 

                     community law enforcement, and fire departments 

                     to community 501(c)(3) nonprofits.

           How:   -Establish a volunteer fire station,

                       -Utilize FEMA 'free' online learning classes,

                       -Attend Program Manager and Train-the-Trainer

                          CERT (Community Emergency Response Team)

                          FEMA courses in Emittsburg, MD

                       -Establish a CERT team specifically for your community

                       -Have volunteer fire station as training, and education

                          facility for FEMA, fire and other training,

                       -Have volunteer fire station designated as a polling\voting

                          location in your community,

                       -Unlimited possibilities

                   

Federal Grants to Local Fire Departments Offer Up-to-Date Equipment and Training to Stations Large and Small

08/29/2014 10:53 AM EDT

New York, NY -- The Atlantic City Fire Department has some 250 full-time firefighters and six fire stations serving a southern New Jersey population of 40,000.  The department received last month a federal Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) of almost $490,000 to replace personal protective equipment ravaged by Hurricane Sandy and years of on-the-job use.  The local share of the grant brought the total to $543,400.

An Emergency Preparedness Workshop for the Faith Community. Tuesday, September 30th

For your community check with the DHS Center for Faith-based & Neighborhood Partnerships to have a workshop scheduled in your community.   Partnerships@fema.dhs.gov

State and local partners of the National Capital Region (District of Columbia, Maryland & Virginia) in collaboration with

the Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Faith-based & Neighborhood Partnerships

and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, cordially invite you to: 

 Faithful Readiness:

An Emergency Preparedness Workshop for the Faith Community

Tuesday, September 30th

9:00 AM – 2:00 PM

(With optional sessions after 2:00 p.m. with area local emergency managers)

Holiday Inn Capitol

550 C St, SW

Washington, DC, 20472

_*** The workshop is free***

To pre-register for the workshop e-mail Partnerships@fema.dhs.gov with “NCR - RSVP” in the subject line, please include your contact information (name, organization, title, work number and e-mail).

As a faith and/or community leader you will:

·         Start “Developing a High Quality Emergency Operations Plan for your House of Worship” to respond to an emergency/incident, including guidance to address an active shooter scenario

·         Connect with new partners ready to help support your house of worship & community prepare for emergencies

·         Begin the process to receive a certificate from the Emergency Management Institute and earn Continuing Education Units

If you need reasonable accommodations, or if you have Limited English Proficiency please contact Partnerships@fema.dhs.gov no later than

September 12, 2014.