$$$ Grant Funding Closing: Closing Soon: Application Deadline for Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) Grant Programs

 

Special Announcement: Closing Soon: Application Deadline for Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) Grant Programs

Closing Soon: Application Deadline for Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) Grant Programs Applications for FEMA’s fiscal year 2020 Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) and Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant programs must be submitted using FEMA GO no later than 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on January 29, 2021. Applications received by FEMA GO after the deadline will not be considered for funding. Please note that applicants may have earlier deadlines for subapplicants. For local governments and state and tribal agencies, please contact your State Hazard Mitigation Officer to learn about the applicant's priorities, deadlines, and additional requirements.  Additional Deadline: FMA and BRIC grant applicants experiencing technical problems outside of their control while using FEMA GO must notify FEMA as soon as possible and no later than 3 p.m. EST on January 27, 2021, by sending an email to FEMAGO@fema.dhs.gov. Learn more about how to apply using FEMA GO, or go directly to the portal to apply, at https://go.fema.gov/. For programmatic questions about HMA grant programs, call 1-866-222-3580.    HMA Home Page: http://www.fema.gov/hazard-mitigation-assistance  FEMA Regional Offices: https://www.fema.gov/fema-regional-contacts

Local (Townships, City, County, State) EM must step up your management game. FEMA Region III has. January 22, 2021

FEMA Region III Activation for COVID Vaccination Distribution Plan-New
 
Incident Summary: FEMA Region III is issuing an ACTIVATION ORDER for Region III personnel to support the COVID-19 Vaccination Distribution Plan. The RRCC will activate (virtually) to Level III, RRCS members will begin reporting on January 25, 2021. Region III IMAT-A Teams will deploy virtually to support Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
 
Location: Regional
 
Source of Information: FEMA Region III
 
Date of Information: 13:27:27 on 01-22-2021
 
Cross Jurisdictional or Cascading Impacts: Entire NCR.
 
Triggered CIR(s): CIR 5 Govt Operating Status
 
Additional Report Details: 
 
Date/Time Issued: Friday, January 22, 2021, 1:00 p.m.
Dates/Time covered by Activation: Monday, January 25, 2021, 7:45 a.m. through TBD.
Description/Location: 
 
FEMA Region III is issuing an ACTIVATION ORDER for Region III personnel to support the COVID-19 Vaccination Distribution Plan. The RRCC will activate (virtually) to Level III, RRCS members will begin reporting on January 25, 2021. Region III IMAT-A Teams will deploy virtually to support Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. The Regional Watch Center is currently at NORMAL OPERATIONS. Region 3 RRCC is at Level III, Dayshift (for COVID-19 response).

Why LOCAL 'action' organizations never apply or miss the deadlines. January 29, 2021. Closing Soon: Application Deadline for Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) Grant Programs

Change must be across the board, or we're back to 'business as usual' for vulnerable communities

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Closing Soon: Application Deadline for Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) Grant Programs

Applications for FEMA’s fiscal year 2020 Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) and Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant programs must be submitted using FEMA GO no later than 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on January 29, 2021. Applications received by FEMA GO after the deadline will not be considered for funding. 

Please note that applicants may have earlier deadlines for subapplicants. For local governments and state and tribal agencies, please contact your State Hazard Mitigation Officer to learn about the applicant's priorities, deadlines, and additional requirements. 

Additional Deadline: FMA and BRIC grant applicants experiencing technical problems outside of their control while using FEMA GO must notify FEMA as soon as possible and no later than 3 p.m. EST on January 27, 2021, by sending an email to FEMAGO@fema.dhs.gov.

Learn more about how to apply using FEMA GO, or go directly to the portal to apply, at https://go.fema.gov/. For programmatic questions about HMA grant programs, call 1-866-222-3580. 

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Free Environmental Career Worker Training! Apply online: For hazardous materials clean-up, construction, and disaster recovery locally and across the nation.

 

Spring 2021 - Free Environmental Career Worker Training! Apply online:   http://www.dscej.org/our-work/worker-health-and-safety-training   The Deep South Center for Environmental (DSCEJ) would like to identify, train, and mobilize men and women to participate in hazardous materials clean-up, construction, and disaster recovery locally and across the nation. Student training incentives include: ·    Stipend ·    Lunch ·    Bus Pass (if needed) ·    TWIC Cards available to eligible participants.   Limited space is available!       About the Organization   The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children and families harmed by pollution and vulnerable to climate change in the Gulf Coast Region through research, education, community and student engagement for policy change, as well as health and safety training for environmental careers.   Visit our website

Speak Up! Invitation | The Congressman Howard Wolpe Award and Conversation on Africa: A Fireside Chat with Congressmember Karen Bass

 BEMA International members.  Los Angeles, California.

You have a better voice because you elected your local representatives to fill YOUR NEEDS. 

If you do not ask the right questions for your elected official from your community, how will they know when your community is truly being served?

Served by addressing local issues of the residents, the immigrant community, the homeless (for the homeless exist globally even in Africa), issues of water & food security?

Climate change in the U.S. and globally?

Addressing corruption issue locally and globally?

We cannot speak for you if you don’t speak up.

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Please join the Wilson Center Africa Program on Tuesday, January 26, 2021 from 10:00-11:00 AM (Eastern Time US) for the inaugural Congressman Howard Wolpe Conversation on Africa as we honor Congressmember Karen Bass, the U.S. Representative from California’s 37th Congressional District, for her years of leadership and advocacy for stronger U.S.-Africa relations.

Having trouble? View this email in your browser.         Africa Program           Follow           LIVE WEBCAST | UPCOMING EVENT The Congressman Howard Wolpe Award and Conversation on Africa: A Fireside Chat with Congressmember Karen Bass         Tuesday Jan. 26, 2021 10:00am – 11:00am ET           The Congressman Howard Wolpe Conversation on Africa: A Fireside Chat with Congressmember Karen Bass Please join the Wilson Center Africa Program on Tuesday, January 26, 2021, from 10:00-11:00 AM (Eastern Time US) for the inaugural Congressman Howard Wolpe Conversation on Africa as we honor Congressmember Karen Bass, the U.S. Representative from California’s 37th Congressional District, for her years of leadership and advocacy for stronger U.S.-Africa relations. This event will also feature a “fireside chat” between Congressmember Bass and Congresswoman Jane Harman, the Director, President, and CEO of the Wilson Center, discussing the current state of U.S.-Africa relations and the road ahead for U.S.-Africa engagement in the Biden administration. The public event will be featured as a webcast available on the Wilson Center’s website. Congressmember Bass has long been a leader and vocal advocate of stronger U.S.-Africa relations, and currently serves as the Chair of the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations. From 2018-2020, she served as the Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, which has been at the forefront of working to strengthen U.S.-Africa relations. This conversation will offer an opportunity honor the legacy of Congressman Howard Wolpe, celebrate the leadership and achievements of Congressmember Bass, and have an insightful discussion on recent milestones in U.S.-Africa relations, some of the key challenges facing the continent, and the future of Africa and U.S.-Africa relations as the U.S. transitions to a new administration.   Speakers The Honorable Karen Bass Representative from California’s 37th Congressional District, U.S. House of Representatives & Ranking Minority Member, House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations Jane Harman Director, President, and CEO, Wilson Center       One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20004-3027 Phone: (202) 691-4000

 

Returning to 'Business as Usual' approaches and inclusion of local, regional, national, and international entities.

It has begun.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thompson Statement on FEMA Denying Maryland and Virginia Emergency Declaration Requests

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thompson Statement on FEMA Denying Maryland and Virginia Emergency Declaration Requests

January 19, 2021 (WASHINGTON) – Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on news that FEMA has denied requests from Maryland and Virginia for an emergency declaration to assist in costs related to the domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol and the Inauguration:     “It is unconscionable that the Trump Administration, in one of its final acts, would deny emergency funding to Maryland and Virginia after domestic terrorists attacked the Capitol and tried to stop the peaceful transition of power. Assistance from Maryland and Virginia were needed that day because President Trump took too long to act. As states and Federal partners work together to ensure the security of President-elect Biden’s inauguration, the entire Federal government must support states’ requests for aid in that effort, including FEMA.  I have confidence that the incoming Administration will thoroughly and fairly consider an appeal of this decision.”   #  #  #   Media contact: Adam Comis at (202) 225-9978