Carol Richardson

The Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH)

Who We Are: The non-profit Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH®) is the country's leading consumer advocate for strengthening homes and safeguarding families from natural and manmade disasters. Our Mission: To affect life safety, property protection and economic well being by empowering consumers with resources for strengthening their homes and safeguarding their families from natural and manmade disasters. FLASH Core Values: -Innovation. Designing and developing effective and easy-to-use tools and techniques to foster mitigation behavior change. -Integrity. Delivering consistently reliable, useful and technically accurate information and services. -Collaboration. Forging strategic partnerships with like-minded individuals and organizations that share a commitment to the disaster safety movement. Our Commitment: -To partner with like-minded organizations from the public, private and non-profit sector. -To demonstrate leadership through creation of useful and reliable disaster safety education programs. -To sponsor ongoing outreach initiatives to encourage citizens to build, buy and use buildings that are constructed or retrofitted with disaster safety in mind.