Read the response by function, not by anecdote.
ESF and hazard tags across your members.
Funders and associations that post or follow incident-related listings can read them by Emergency Support Function, hazard and FEMA region instead of by whoever wrote the email.
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What Incident Listings is
Incident-related Needs and Offers carry a mission area, hazard, FEMA region and ESF. Foundations that post on behalf of grantees or associations that coordinate members can use the same fields.
What you can do
Everything below is a screen or a field in the product, not a roadmap item.
Turn it on only when a listing belongs to an incident. When it is off, no incident fields are required.
Choose Prevention, Protection, Mitigation, Response or Recovery, and a hazard from hurricane and flood to public health and infrastructure failure.
Pick the FEMA region, which is required for United States listings, and record the declaration status and FEMA declaration ID.
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 Mass Care asks for a mass care function, and ESF #7 Logistics opens a logistics function field.
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.
Tie the listing to an Event so the response is read as one operation, though linking is optional.
How it runs
Start a Need or Offer
Open Create Need or Create Offer as usual and fill in the everyday fields.
Switch on incident-related
Choose the mission area and hazard, then the FEMA region and declaration if one applies.
Classify it
Pick the ESF and, where relevant, the NIMS resource and type. Post the listing.
Why this matters for foundations
The problem
Disaster asks arrive in free text, which makes it hard to see where the gaps are.
What the platform does
Standard fields make like asks comparable.
What leadership sees
Which functions and hazards the network is asking for.
Is this the right fit?
Honest answer first.
Use ImpactMatrix when
You coordinate or fund a response across several organizations and want comparable listings.
Use something else when
You fund outside disasters. Everyday listings are enough.
Where this sits in the chain
Every posted need travels the same path. Follow it forward or back.
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.
Do funders need to classify listings?
No. The organization posting a Need or Offer fills in the fields, and only when it marks the listing incident-related.
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Read the response by function, not by anecdote.
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