SF CARD contracts with Bay Area UASI to offer Technical Assistance and Training to Bay Area Nonprofits and small businesses through their Community Preparedness Program. Since 2019, SF CARD and partners have delivered FREE public training sessions on topics such as Continuity of Operations, Incident Command for Nonprofits, and Coordination Panels between local governments and community organizations. In 2026, SF CARD worked with organizations throughout the 14 Bay Area UASI Jurisdictions, offering support in developing, updating, and writing their Emergency Response and Continuity of Operations plans. We also partnered with a local contractor to offer grant writing technical assistance and training to a handful of organizations during this project!

SF CARD received exclusive funding from Bay Area UASI to develop and offer a 90-minute, interactive workshop teaching youth about personal emergency preparedness utilizing FEMA's STEP curriculum. We worked in all 14 UASI Jurisdiction (12 Bay Area counties) and delivered 140 workshops. The impact of this program was impressive, reaching over 1,600 students with personal emergency preparedness curriculum and providing them with youth-centered emergency go-bag starter kits! Student Tools for Emergency Planning, or STEP, is a modular emergency preparedness curriculum that can be used in many different settings -- school classrooms, technology education and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) classes, summer camps, afterschool programs, school safety programs, child care centers, and other community-based programs.

Our disaster preparedness series dedicated to houses of worship and faith-based communities explores planning, response, and recovery issues as well as federal hardening funds for security. Funding is provided by Bay Area Urban Areas Security Initiative and the Walter and Elise Hass Fund.

We work with Principals, PTA Associations and District leadership to help strengthen our most important institution: schools. We provide in-depth technical assistance and drill guidance to help each school achieve its yearly preparedness goals. ​ SF CARD recognizes that most Districts and schools have limited budgets and may need assistance with their disaster planning efforts. So, SF CARD now offers a free 1-hour consult to help leadership to develop a disaster preparedness roadmap. The roadmap will help schools to focus on specific activities that don't take much time. Please contact brian@sfcard.org to schedule your free 1-hour consult.

SF CARD worked with multiple community partners to offer disaster education and resources to underserved and underrepresented communities residing in over 12 Bay Area counties. In addition we partnered with organizations in the Tahoe-Truckee, Yuba City, and Fresno areas to offer FREE (CalOES-funded) Disaster Preparedness Kits to their communities!  SF CARD is proud to have been a Community Partner of the Listos/Ready California program.  ​ In 2019, SF CARD was chosen to be one of the first participating organizations offering culturally and linguistically competent disaster education for San Francisco County.

SF CARD partners with the California Office of Emergency Services and the Early Earthquake Warning program to provide outreach for Earthquake safety, including important safety tips and how to sign up for timely alerts where you live and work.

Our Climate Resiliency program empowers local nonprofit and faith organizations to activate and operate a heat-relief center for their clients. Through a strong partnership with the San Francisco Neighborhood Empowerment Network, San Francisco Department of Emergency Management, and San Francisco Department of the Public Health, this heat relief center program was able to receive funding to pilot the program in the Bayview neighborhood.