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Fast Fact:
No community can fully recover from an earthquake until its businesses are back up and operating, providing the community with employment, salaries and services.
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Home How Can Chambers Help?
20 Community Outreach Activities
  1. Use free communication networks: newsletters, website headers, reader boards, shopping bags, and bill stuffers in monthly bills.
  2. Distribute press releases and public service announcements (PSAs) with earthquake emergency information for the public.
  3. Conduct earthquake drills in the work place.
  4. Hold an earthquake mitigation (risk reduction) workshop for small businesses.
  5. Recruit local retailers to display information about earthquakes and mitigation. Encourage sales events and promotions with earthquake mitigation themes.
  6. Place corporate-sponsored advertising in local newspapers in support of earthquake mitigation and emergency planning for businesses.
  7. Work together with your community to upgrade building codes, adopt retrofitting programs, and implement emergency planning.
  8. Survey area businesses and estimate the costs of expected earthquake damage and the costs of mitigation. Present the findings to these businesses.
  9. Provide employees with information about how to prepare themselves and their families for earthquakes and how to do mitigation at home.
  10. Look for presentation opportunities to reach audiences with related interests, such as home improvement, real estate development, investing, or historic preservation.
  11. Contact local media outlets to recommend programming about earthquake risks and mitigation and to offer expert speakers or guests.
  12. Design a recognition contest, awards, or designation for businesses that take steps to reduce earthquake hazards through mitigation.
  13. Ask officials to designate an Earthquake Awareness Day or Week.
  14. Post your accomplishments and initiatives, as a business community, on the Chamber web site so others, including prospective community investors, know what your group is doing to protect local business and build a sustainable community.
  15. Place brochures and other information on public bulletin boards.
  16. Recruit a local TV personality to make a “how to” video for businesses.
  17. Prepare or recommend a package of mitigation kits for sale.
  18. Create a partnership with a local college to involve students and undertake studies of local risk or to promote mitigation programs. Earthquake preparedness is relevant to students of engineering, architecture, planning, business, government, law, etc.
  19. Link websites of local governments or interest groups to QuakeSmart.org.
  20. Contact representatives of local utilities (gas, electricity, water) to learn and publicize their recommendations for earthquake mitigation, especially regarding gas shut-off valves.