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. 

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In 2026, SF CARD contracted with Bay Area UASI to offer Technical Assistance to Bay Area Nonprofits and small businesses through their Community Preparedness Program. 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.

SF CARD is pleased to present a year-long disaster preparedness series dedicated to houses of worship and faith-based communities. 

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In this series, we will explore planning, response, and recovery issues as well as the possibility of obtaining federal hardening funds for security. 

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Funding is provided by Bay Area Urban Areas Security Initiative and the Walter and Elise Hass Fund.

SF CARD works with Principals, PTA Associations and District leadership to help strengthen our most important institution: Schools. SF CARD staff provides in-depth technical assistance and drill guidance to help each school achieve its yearly preparedness goals.  

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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.  

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Please contact brian@sfcard.org to schedule your free 1-hour consult.  

SF CARD is proud to have been a Community Partner of the Listos/Ready California program. 

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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.

 

In subsequent years, SF CARD expanded its reach, working 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! 

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SF CARD’s Climate Resiliency program started in 2017 with a simple idea--empower local nonprofit and faith organizations' staff 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.  

Learn more here!

SF CARD offers a 90-minute, interactive workshop for youth to learn about personal emergency preparedness utilizing FEMA's STEP curriculum. 

 

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.

Students learn about disasters, emergencies, severe weather, hazards, and health using fun activities that help to build skills, such as how to create an Emergency Supply Kit and Family Emergency Communication Plan.