Alliance for Response
In 2009 the North Carolina Preservation Consortium (NCPC) in partnership with Heritage Preservation will sponsor an Alliance for Response Forum in Raleigh. Date and location to be announced. Alliance for Response is a national program sponsored by Heritage Preservation that builds bridges between the cultural heritage and emergency response communities to effectively plan for and respond to disasters in cultural institutions; libraries, museums, archives, and historic sites. Previous forums have been held in Atlanta, Boston, Cincinnati, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle.
The primary goal of Alliance for Response is to establish lasting networks between cultural institutions and emergency management agencies. Following the Boston forum the Cultural Emergency Management Team was given a seat in the city's Emergency Operations Center. After the Philadelphia forum the city Emergency Management Agency recruited over one hundred liaisons from local cultural institutions. NCPC will use the Raleigh forum as a model for other cities throughout North Carolina to build local, regional, and a state wide heritage emergency response teams.
For information about Alliance for Response contact the NCPC Ececutive Director.