Continuity of Operations Plan
Keep Your Organization Functioning During an Emergency
Ensuring your organization's continuity in the event of an emergency is vitally important to its longevity. Emergencies that can be devastating to your organization can be as basic as a local power outage and as severe as a regional hurricane. Thinking about and planning for all-hazards surrounding your organization will help keep you performing vital functions during a disaster.
Some preliminary actions to take are:
- Identify operations that are critical to survival
- Create an emergency staff and volunteer contact list
- Create procedures for succession of authority
- Identify any resources that are used daily
- Create a contact list of partner agencies to keep off-site
- Plan for what to do if your building is inaccessible
- Plan for payroll continuity
- Define emergency policies and procedures before an emergency occurs
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Volunteer Fairfax has great resources to help local nonprofits develop and implement a COOP within their organizations, including a template that was specifically developed for nonprofits by Deloitte. For more information, please contact Matthew Lyttle at 703-246-3553.
