Resilience, Disaster Recovery & Mitigation Planning

Our planning experts offer a wealth of knowledge on sustainable development, demographic analysis, and best practices for bringing equitable, catalytic change to communities.

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Giving You a Wider Perspective

We offer a deep bench of professional planners experienced in applying formal planning concepts to resilience, disaster recovery, and mitigation efforts. Civix brings the skills and expertise to deliver a range of planning services – with an emphasis on operational efficiency, equitable outcomes, and long-term community resilience.

Expertise for Every Objective

Resilience, Disaster Recovery, & Mitigation initiatives may involve infrastructure, housing, transportation, economic development, adaptation strategies, preparedness, assistance to vulnerable populations, land use, and zoning. These projects differ from traditional FEMA or HUD housing programs – making a partner with Civix’s depth of experience essential.

Brighter Futures are Never Accidents

Our approach to planning is to go far beyond just the immediate concerns and to greatly enhance a community’s capacity to meet future needs. Our planners give communities the opportunity to bring about transformative change and meet their unique objectives.

Listen More, Plan Better

We work with clients to conduct grassroots community outreach to contribute to the design of organizational structures, programs, and projects that address holistic community needs, preserve community culture and traditions, and adapt to a changing environment and associated risks.

Our Team is Your Team, Start to Finish

Our team includes a unique blend of mitigation planning, urban planning, and HUD and FEMA subject matter experts.

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Helping You Utilize Data More Effectively

We have a proven track record of creating data-driven planning documents that leverage our experience in data analysis and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). We turn volumes of data into essential, visual information for decision-making. Through this data-informed approach, our clients can maximize the impacts of their investments.

Meeting Your Communities’ Greatest Needs

Data Analytics

Local, state, and national data that informs decision making, action plans, and program success

Housing Planning

Technical assistance and full-scale support to further your housing and community development goals

Long-Term Recovery Support

The necessary capacity, experience, and expertise for successful long-term recovery projects

Insights

From Our Team of Experts

Civix Elevates VP of Technology, Names Director of Cybersecurity

Calvin Simmons to Vice President of Technology and tapped John McGee as Director of Information Security.

Civix Experts Encourage CDBG-DR Grantees to Take Advantage of Early Access to Funding for Administrative Costs

HUD has extended a unique opportunity to grantees of the 2020 CDBG-DR allocation. They can now access funding for administrative costs earlier than usual.

Civix Shares Checklist for Meeting CDBG-DR Certification Deadline on April 8th

CDBG-DR grantees have a short timeframe to demonstrate they are prepared to administer the federal recovery funding.

Helping State & Local Governments Maximize Federal Infrastructure Funds

Billions of dollars will begin flowing into states’ transportation, broadband, utilities and other infrastructure projects now that President Biden has signed the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law.

With the Appropriation of $28.6B in Disaster Aid, Civix Provides Timeline for Managing Federal Funds

To help speed up recovery and leverage federal funding for greater impact, Civix experts developed an action timeline to guide state and local governments on what to do during three critical 30-day periods and beyond.

Making Resilience a Reality

In the midst of the devastating destruction wrought by Hurricane Ida a few weeks ago, there is some good news that dramatically demonstrates the powerful benefits of smart resilience planning and construction.

Governor Edwards, Pontchartrain Levee District, Officials Break Ground on Levee Project

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards, representatives of the Pontchartrain Levee District (PLD), and federal, state, and local officials gathered Monday to celebrate a significant milestone.

Civix Experts Advise States to Get Ahead of Disaster Recovery Allocations

Tornadoes in Tennessee, mudslides in Oregon, wildfires in California, winter storms in Texas, hurricanes across the Gulf South… Dozens of federal disasters have been declared over the past year,

How Government Can Bridge the Innovation Gap

Since long before Dickens so wittily invented the “Circumlocution Office” in his 1850s serial Little Dorrit, government has been perceived as slow, overly complicated, and often nonsensical. Unfortunately, most people dread their necessary interactions with government. We on the inside appreciate

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