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For business · Incident Listings

Offer capacity in terms a responder recognizes.

A truck becomes a typed resource.

For business teams, incident-related Offers describe your capacity the way a response does: the ESF it serves, the hazard, the FEMA region and, for equipment, a NIMS type.

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What Incident Listings is

A business can post an incident-related Offer for transport, equipment, space or expertise, choose an ESF and, where it applies, search the resource catalog and set a type.

What you can do

Everything below is a screen or a field in the product, not a roadmap item.

Incident-related switch

Turn it on only when a listing belongs to an incident. When it is off, no incident fields are required.

Mission area and hazard

Choose Prevention, Protection, Mitigation, Response or Recovery, and a hazard from hurricane and flood to public health and infrastructure failure.

FEMA region and declaration

Pick the FEMA region, which is required for United States listings, and record the declaration status and FEMA declaration ID.

Emergency Support Function

Pick a primary ESF from the fifteen, plus up to two secondary ones. The form suggests an ESF from the listing's category, and records whether the value came from you, the AI or a default.

ESF 6 and ESF 7 detail

ESF #6 Mass Care asks for a mass care function, and ESF #7 Logistics opens a logistics function field.

NIMS resource typing

Search the resource catalog, then set the type (untyped or Type 1 to 4), the basis for it, the core capability and the ICS section.

Link an Event

Tie the listing to an Event so the response is read as one operation, though linking is optional.

How it runs

01

Start a Need or Offer

Open Create Need or Create Offer as usual and fill in the everyday fields.

02

Switch on incident-related

Choose the mission area and hazard, then the FEMA region and declaration if one applies.

03

Classify it

Pick the ESF and, where relevant, the NIMS resource and type. Post the listing.

Why this matters for business

The problem

Generous offers get lost when nobody can tell what function they serve.

What the platform does

Your offer arrives tagged with ESF and typing.

What leadership sees

Offers tied to a hazard and an event, for CSR reporting.

Is this the right fit?

Honest answer first.

Use ImpactMatrix when

Your company offers capacity during a response and wants it routed properly.

Use something else when

Your giving is everyday surplus. Gifts in Kind is the better fit.

Where this sits in the chain

Every posted need travels the same path. Follow it forward or back.

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Questions

Do I have to fill in ESF and NIMS fields?

No. They only apply when you mark a Need or Offer as incident-related. An everyday listing needs none of them.

What are Emergency Support Functions?

ESFs are fifteen standard categories for the kinds of help a response needs, from ESF #1 Transportation and #7 Logistics to #8 Public Health and Medical Services and #15 External Affairs. A listing has a primary ESF and up to two secondary ones.

What is NIMS resource typing?

It describes a resource in standard terms, such as its category, kind and capability level. A resource can be untyped or typed from Type 1 to Type 4, and you can search a catalog of resource types when you classify a listing.

Can we link an offer to an Event?

Yes. Linking an Event is optional even when the listing is incident-related.

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Offer capacity in terms a responder recognizes.

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