The mission of the partnership is to strengthen the region's collective capacity to prevent, respond to, and recover from natural and human-caused disasters through effective public-private collaboration.

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Businesses and governments alike understand the value of planning for continuity of operations. Too often, however, that planning is done in isolation – within a company, by industry sector, or by government alone. The very best business continuity planning by an individual company is for naught if the community around that business cannot function after a disaster. Likewise, government faces an impossible task in effectively providing all phases disaster management alone given that the private sector controls 85-90 percent of the nation’s critical infrastructure. In recognition of this inter-dependency across organizations and between public and private sectors, the Colorado partnership’s work reflects the importance of joint planning, practice, and ongoing collaboration to ensure continuity of community.

The Colorado Emergency Preparedness Partnership is a collaborative enterprise created by the Denver InfraGard Members Alliance (IMA), the Denver Police Foundation, Business Executives for National Security and the Philanthropy Roundtable (see accomplishments). It is a broad coalition to implement a voluntary, all-hazards partnership between business and government and, to date, is the product of many Colorado partners including leaders of the philanthropic community, federal, state and local agencies, business, academia, and US Northern Command.  It is a new organization aimed at bringing the private sector to the table in a streamlined fashion for emergency preparedness and homeland security planning and to help smooth lines of communication between and across the public, private and non-profit sectors. By working together, we will strengthen Colorado’s ability to mitigate the impact of catastrophic events and help ensure the safety of Colorado citizens and the resiliency of its economy.

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Unconventional Cooperation - By Brian M. Van Hise, September 2009,  -Day one of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Denver was drawing to a close on Monday, August 25, 2008. The work day had ended for many downtown. A warm summer evening was slowly taking over the hot, dry day, and the Denver Police Department had just issued the command for a group of several hundred masked “black bloc” demonstrators to disperse at the city’s Civic Center Park. Ignoring these orders, the group diverted around the police force . . .More...

 

 

Press Release - Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 from CDPHE

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Getting Down to Business: An Action Plan for Public-Private Disaster Response Coordination The Report of the Business Response Task Force - Business Executives for National Security (BENS) More...