Building Resilience in Texas: How SBP Fellow Will McCrory is Helping Protect Gulf Coast Communities
November 4, 2025Along the Texas Gulf Coast, communities live with the constant threat of hurricanes, flooding, and other extreme weather events. For low-capacity communities, these risks are even greater. Aging infrastructure, limited staff capacity, and tight budgets often mean critical upgrades are delayed. When infrastructure systems fail during disaster, like wastewater systems, the consequences can be devastating: …
City of Mobile, SBP Conduct Unified Emergency Exercise Ahead of Hurricane Season
June 3, 2025FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MOBILE, Ala. (June 3, 2025) — In a proactive effort to strengthen local disaster preparedness, the City of Mobile, in partnership with SBP’s Resilience and Recovery Fellows Program, recently hosted a unified emergency tabletop exercise ahead of the 2025 hurricane season. Held May 28 at the National Maritime Museum of the Gulf, the …
Building Safer Communities in Florida: Meet SBP Resilience Fellow Kurt Williams
June 2, 2025Floodwaters can rise quickly when heavy rain falls in Charlotte County, Florida, closing streets, damaging homes, and stranding residents. When hurricanes hit, the surge can be devastating, overwhelming neighborhoods and leaving emergency responders scrambling to assess where help is needed most. But what if the county had real-time data showing exactly where floodwaters were rising, …
Hope, Light, and Safe Housing: Meet SBP Fellow Elizabeth Daigle
December 23, 2024SBP created its Resilience Fellows Program to strengthen the capacity of small- to medium-sized communities on the front lines of disasters to secure appropriate federal disaster assistance. Our locally based Fellows collaborate with community leaders and networks to secure the recovery assistance they need when disasters strike. They also empower communities to mitigate risks and …