Ready Chesapeake provides disaster recovery essentials
By TOM MARQUARDT, Editor and Publisher
By TOM MARQUARDT, Editor and Publisher
Capital Gazette Communications
Published
02/06/11
Corporations and major employers have understood the importance of emergency preparedness for a long time. But what about the small business owners who don't think a disaster can happen to them?
2010 Leadership Fellows
The Leadership Anne Arundel 2010 Fellows Class consisted of:
• Nancy Almgren, retired financial planner.
• Joyce Coleman, Signature Program facilitator for county public schools.
• Marilyn Corbett, president, Back Creek Communications.
• Robert Crosby, manager of design services, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.
• John Gower, director of business operations, ARINC.
• Scott Gregory, president of R. Scott Gregory Inc.
• Maggie Griffin, consultant.
• Hank Gundlach, senior vice president, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.
• Rita Ormasa, president, Sailwind Marketing.
• Jeremy Parks, vice president, Jerome J. Parks Co.
• Kristina Seidel, paralegal consultant.
• Adam Tracy, former general manager, Westfield Annapolis mall.
• Brian Tucker.
• David Vogel, principal consultant, president subsidiary, ABSI/Compass Information Systems.
Leadership Anne Arundel is currently recruiting for its next Fellows class. If you are a graduate of another LAA program and are interested in applying, fill out an application at leadershipaa.org. The site includes information about other LAA’s other programs.
A group of 14 participants in the graduate class of Leadership Anne Arundel has a message for them - it can happen and you need a strategy if it does.
In the last several months, the 2010 Fellows Class has been working with city and county officials to develop Ready Chesapeake, a project that will help small business owners with limited resources to be better prepared for an emergency. The class is setting up a nonprofit...
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Disaster recovery essential - 2011-02-06 04:52:24
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You don't know you need it till too late when you do.
When it comes to your property, what do you expect in case of loss, e.g., hurricane, tornado, earthquake, flood, fire? If you are like most people you draw a blank on that question. Facing an experienced insurance adjuster is not a time to be unprepared. Especially following a disaster new information is most difficult to digest.
The ordinary insurance policyholder now has access: basic rights and vital information--what to expect in terms of disaster recovery...your insurance security--even footing.
Compare/Prepare while you are in a state of calm. www.disasterprepared.info
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