Dallas Small Business Continuity Fund Impact Evaluation

The Small Business Administration (SBA) aims to restore small business revenue and sustain jobs after disasters. SBA is interested in understanding the impact of community-based approaches to help small businesses respond and recover to the COVID-19 pandemic. In spring 2020, the Dallas City Council used CARES Act funding to set up the Small Business Continuity Fund (SBCF) to help small businesses affected by the economic fallout from the COVID‐19 pandemic. OES partnered with the City of Dallas to understand how receiving a grant or a loan affected businesses’ ability to generate revenue and remain open, as well as the differential impact of such funding for women-owned and black-and-hispanic-owned businesses.

As natural disasters continue to break records and with the COVID-19 pandemic complicating disaster management and recovery across the world, the Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) has collected a number …

Supply Chain Integrity Month

April is National Supply Chain Integrity Month. In partnership with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC), Office of the National Cyber Director …

(ISC)² Survey Finds Cybersecurity Professionals Being Repurposed During COVID-19 Pandemic

(ISC)² – the world’s largest nonprofit association of certified cybersecurity professionals – has released the findings of a survey in which 256 cybersecurity professionals shared insights into their current work …