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Resilience Action Fund to engage with The International Finance Corporation in Developing a Building Resilience Index
Index is expected to become the standard for rating buildings on hazard resilience and adaptation
05/19/2020
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Sheltering at Home: Make it your Castle
Make your current or future home your castle, not the place you’ll have to run away from.
Your family, like every family, has the right to be in a safe and lasting home.
04/24/2020
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BUILT TO LAST? documentary more relevant than ever
In the midst of COVID-19, the hazard-resilience of our homes is only second in importance to our personal resilience to the virus. This documentary educates citizens around the world on what they should know and do.
04/15/2020
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RAF Founder interviewed by Earth911
Discussing the challenges of COVID-19 when combined with natural hazard events
04/10/2020
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Resilience Bipartisanship in an Election Year
RAF Founder Aris Papadopoulos comments on why making homes and communities safer to natural hazards should be a bipartisan goal
03/14/2020
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Can homes & communities survive future Australia-size mega-fires?
RAF Founder discusses what homeowners should know and can do to protect their homes from wildfires
02/27/2020
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Eleven Ideas to Improve Miami Beach’s Resilience Initiatives
The City of Miami Beach’s elected representatives and staff have shown commendable leadership and initiative in taking-on its flooding issues. Such leadership comes with challenges and learning from experience is a sign of strength and progress. It is in this spirit that Resilience Action Fund (RAF) shares thoughts and suggestions for improvement. On February 18, 2020 the City of Miami
02/24/2020
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RAF Chair speaks at ARISE Resilience Forum in Mexico City
Resilience Action Fund Chair Aris Papadopoulos was a keynote speaker on October 30, 2019 at a Resilience Forum organized in Mexico City by UNDRR ARISE-Mexico, and attended by over 800 participants. He spoke on ‘Strategies for Building Back Better’, one of the the key goals of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction: 2015-30. He stressed that ‘building back better’
11/01/2019
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FLASH and RAF agree to develop Resilient-Smart Homebuyers Guide
The Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH) and Resilience Action Fund have agreed to jointly develop and promote a first-of-its-kind Resilient-Smart Homebuyers Guide. This is expected be available in print and online by Q3-2020. Most homebuyers have little to no knowledge of the hazard vulnerability of the location and house they are looking to buy. The property industry does a
09/15/2019
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New York Times quotes RAF Chair as Dorian menaces towards Bahamas
With a menacing hurricane Dorian approaching, the New York Times reached out to RAF Chair Aris Papadopoulos, who is also the Distinguished Expert in Resilience at Florida International University’s Extreme Events Institute (FIU-EEI), to ask about building codes in the Bahamas. Clink on below photo for full article. He noted that in 2003 Bahamas adopted and began enforcing the Miami-Dade
09/04/2019
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RAF Founder & Christiana Figueres Share Panel During World Bank Annual Meeting
Resilience Action Fund (RAF) founder and construction industry veteran Aris Papadopoulos spoke to Kerry Sanders on NBC’s ‘Today Show’.
10/15/2017
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Resilience Action Fund Talks About Hazards on the ‘Today Show’
Resilience Action Fund (RAF) founder and construction industry veteran Aris Papadopoulos spoke to Kerry Sanders on NBC’s ‘Today Show’.
10/10/2017
