1. Empowered Communities
Presentation
Summer, 2013

2. “New Orleans, 2007 – Back to the Future”
Mayor Ed Lee

4. The NEN
“Universe”
Government
Agencies
Academic
Institutions
Neighborhood
Groups
Residents
Non-Government
Organizations
Executive /
Legislative
Branch

5. What is the NEN creating?
 Social Media
 Events / Trainings
 Strategic Partnerships
On Demand & Pro-Active Capacity
Building Initiatives using…

6. Social Media Solutions

7. Events / Trainings
NEN Clean & Green Summit
NEN Awards

8. The Game Changer….

9. The NEN’s Empowered Communities Program is
a leadership development program which
increases the capacity of local stakeholders,
individually and collectively, by strengthening
their stewardship of the networks that serve their
community to meet their immediate and long term
needs.

10. Economic
Infrastructure
(Housing /Lifelines /
Transportation)
Public Safety
Health
Environmental
Social / Cultural /
Spiritual
Education
Emergency
Management
Individual
Organization
Community
Resilience Wheel
Make resilience relevant…

11. Finance /
Resource
Management
Communications
GovernanceProblem
Solving
Organizing
Individual
Community
Organization
Capacity Wheel
Make resilience about function…

12. Advanced Community
Disaster
Resilience Program
Organizational Assets
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Phase 1:
Establish locally
managed
governance model
Asset / Network
Inventory and
Mapping
Phase 2:
Work Group
Formulation
Set Performance
Goals for
Community
Phase 3:
Create and
implement action plan
Test and Exercise
Dev.
SFGOV Academic
Community
Non Profits
Community Capacity

13. The ECP Resilience Council
Library Non Profit
MerchantResilience
Council
Steering
Committee
Foundation
Elected
Official
Faith Based
City Agency
Academic
Institution /
University /
College

14. Our Neighborhoods
Ready for Anything
Back to the Future, again….