Neighborhood Resilience
Processes, tools, and practices for household and neighborhood coordination.
Most households can coordinate internally but lack systems for neighborhood-scale coordination.
The few governance picks we would put first, each with a buy link we checked and a line on why it earns its place on a street.
A written plan, a comms card, and three names — the official starting kit.
Ready.gov "Make a Plan" is free and is the document every house on the street should already have before anyone coordinates.
Check current price at Ready.gov
IS-100 and IS-700 as vocabulary with responders, not a command structure for your block.
FEMA IS-100.C is free and online. It teaches the vocabulary responders use, so a neighbourhood can plug into the official response rather than talk past it.
Check current price at FEMA Emergency Management Institute
Find your county OEM, your alerts, 2-1-1, and the CERT calendar.
211 is the human-answered door to local services. Knowing it before you need it is half the coordination.
Check current price at 211.org
The form after the storm — not the plan for Tuesday.
The single federal application door after a declared disaster. Bookmark it now so nobody is searching for it on a phone at 5% battery.
Check current price at FEMA
How unaffiliated helpers plug in without becoming a second incident.
National VOAD: how organised volunteers plug into a response. Read it before a disaster, when a street of willing helpers otherwise turns up uncoordinated.
Check current price at National VOAD
Post your talents, tools, and services to build a local circular economy.
A physical skills board makes "who knows what" visible, which is most of what coordination is.
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Everything else we carry for governance. Some of these links could not be confirmed yet; the retailer has the final word on price and stock.
Kits for little free libraries, community pantries, and tool lending libraries.
Check current price at LittleFreeLibraryLTD
Buy in bulk together and split it fairly.
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What you need to run a neighborhood meeting well.
$15 - $25 (~$20)
Trade skills, goods, and services to build community resilience.
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Coordinate community tasks and equipment
Check current price at CaswellandGreen
Nine houses, one afternoon, names and skills on paper.
Check current price at Ready.gov
What a Terrarium is when the street can talk to itself and to the county.
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Simple coordination tools and protocols multiply all other capabilities by enabling resource sharing.
"We made a simple shared doc of who has what. That one document transformed our entire street."
[Coordination visualization for governance]
Deeper knowledge for building governance capability.