Giving Compass' Take:
- Paul Schmitz discusses what can be taken away from public-private partnerships in Milwaukee's Civic Response Team during their first year.
- How can the takeaways from this report be utilized to improve public-private partnership in future emergency response?
- Read about equity and abundance in emergency response.
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The COVID-19 pandemic was an all-hands-on-deck moment. As communities were jolted into emergency response on many fronts—health, jobs, housing, education, childcare, food, and mental health—collaboration and coordination became essential. In Milwaukee, the Civic Response Team united local governments, philanthropy, and nonprofits to collectively manage response and recovery. In just weeks, they housed hundreds of people, delivered tens of thousands of meals, built and promoted a COVID-19 testing system, distributed hundreds of thousands of masks, provided families with technology to connect to school, rescued childcare providers, and soothed anxieties and grief.
This paper studies how the public-private partnerships within the Civic Response Team worked during their first year, and shows what we can learn from them to support better partnership and emergency response in the future.
Read the full article about public-private partnerships in emergency response by Paul Schmitz at FSG.