Resilience Action Fund's new website aims to expand public awareness on the inadequacy of building codes, lack of transparency, challenges of property insurance and importance of consumer choices. As the first 'resilience public watchdog', it debuts its resilience 'Hall of Fame' and 'Hall of Shame', aiming to shine a spotlight and engage public discourse. Find out now which organizations appear on these first Halls.

Resilience Action Fund (International) was launched at a London event attended by international business leaders from the finance, construction, energy, materials and other sectors. Its mission is to advance awareness, transparency and education for greater resilience in the built environment against natural and other hazards. This is aligned with the goals of the UN Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, signed in 2015 by 187 countries and referenced in the COP21 Paris Agreement.

L.A. Community Preparedness Fair at the Church of Scientology of Los Angeles helped educate the community to cope when disaster strike. It also took on another kind of disaster affecting the city—the estimated 26,000 homeless living on the streets of L.A.