FEMA's Citizen Corps Program Forms New Partnership With mygooddeed.org To Promote Community Preparedness
Release Date: September 11, 2008
Release Number: HQ-08-199
Retrieved from http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=45736 on Sept. 11, 2008.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a signing ceremony, the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced a new partnership between the Citizen Corps Program and MyGoodDeed.org to help promote volunteer service and encourage citizens to participate in disaster preparedness and response and recovery. The two organizations will also work together to help promote 9/11 as a day of charitable service.
The Statement of Affiliation was co-signed in Washington D.C. on Sept. 9 by FEMA's National Preparedness Directorate's Community Preparedness Division Director Brock D. Bierman and co-founders of MyGoodDeed.org David Paine and Jay Winuk.
Citizen Corps is FEMA's nationwide grass-roots effort which encourages community and government leaders to come together to involve community members and organizations in all-hazards emergency preparedness, planning, mitigation, response, and recovery.
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