Join The Pew Charitable Trusts at ResCon 2023

We look forward to seeing you at ResCon 2023 in New Orleans! ResCon is an annual conference focused on the ways to practice resilience and disaster management. Pew experts are excited to join ResCon attendees to learn about and discuss new challenges, policies, and research.

Please see below for some ways to connect before, during, and after ResCon2023.

Plenary sessions

Hitchhiker’s Guide to Navigating Grant Funding Opportunities
Tuesday, April 25, 2:30–3:15 p.m. CDT

• Speaker: Mathew Sanders, senior manager, flood-prepared communities project, The Pew Charitable Trusts
• Speaker: Fran Varacalli, grants administrator, South Carolina Office of Resilience
• Speaker: Hope Warren, state planner, South Carolina Office of Resilience 
• Speaker: Joanne Throwe, president, Throwe Environmental 

Wildfires: Burning Through State Budgets
Thursday, April 27, 8–8:45 a.m. CDT

• Speaker: Colin Foard, The Pew Charitable Trusts
• Speaker: Kelsey Delaney, director of partnerships and program implementation, Western Forestry Leadership Coalition

Meet Pew experts

Our experts—including Mathew Sanders and Colin Foard—will be available at ResCon 2023 to discuss state-level efforts to plan for and mitigate flood risks, government spending on natural disasters, the latest research on resilience and mitigation.  Contact Sanders or Foard to arrange a one-on-one meeting with Pew experts before, during, or after the conference.