SBP

SBP was founded after hurricane Katrina to address the urgent need for survivors to have a clear and fast path back to their homes. Initially, SBP was reactive, but effective, rebuilding homes for most vulnerable members of communities.

After expanding rebuilding efforts to five states, and enhancing productivity through utilization of the Toyota Production System, SBP realized that, while important, simply “doing” the reactive home-building work was difficult to scale and was not preventative. As a result, SBP studied the reason for its existence, and determined that the driving motivation and purpose of board members, leaders, staff and volunteers was fortifying disaster survivors against their breaking point. Likewise, SBP learned that three factors influence a person’s breaking point: the time between disaster and recovery; the predictability of the path to recovery; and resilience (both vertical and horizontal).

As a result, SBP’s mandate evolved to its current mission: shrinking the time between disaster and recovery. SBPs interventions will include: Rebuild innovatively, driving efficiency; share SBP’s proven effective model with other organizations to increase efficacy across the disaster rebuilding sector; prepare home and business owners in resilience and risk mitigation prior to disaster; advise local and state government officials so they can deploy federal dollars sooner, and in a way that empowers an efficient recovery; and advocate so that what is measured is what matters – a complete recovery.