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Solve Your 2 Worst Labor Problems With Fair Chance Hiring
Equitable and successful businesses that hire Fair Chance Employees promote family and community resilience by solving the root cause of recidivism -...
Dear Commercial Storm Chasers, Please Read Into Thin Air
This short read shares:
- Chasing can slow emergency responders
- Safety may take a back seat in disaster tourism
- CERT- a great alternative to profiting...
The Best Custom Forms Tool to Add Verified Data in Workflows
Activity Logs and Cost Recovery Efforts Already Being Transformed for Emergency Response Organizations
Do this, and Tornado Alley experts (almost) guarantee you'll survive
"Make a plan!"
How to make a join table with Liquibase and Gorm
A new tool for SQL database relationships
A join table is the traditional tool used to define a "many-to-many" relationship in a SQL database. Here...
3 Steps Towards Diverse and Inclusive Disaster Communication
What is the human cost of a taco?
Emergency Management Conferences: Verified Identity Solutions
Merit has deployed to many hazardous scenarios, so we were not about to let a National Weather Service falling iguana warning stop us from meeting...
Is license reciprocity finally coming to your state?
Family groceries and legislation that matters
Hot Showers or Paperwork? Modernizing FEMA Cost Recovery [With Digital ICS 214s]
- FEMA funding drives emergency response
- Accurate and complete reporting is the key to funding
- Digital ICS 214s support successful FEMA Public...
Leader of nation’s largest disaster program joining Merit to spearhead emergency services team
Chris Walker, former Senior Vice President of WSP's Emergency Management division, has joined Merit as the President of the company’s Emergency...
Merit Raises $50M to Expand into New Industries and Use Cases
Today Merit announced that the company has raised $50M in Series B funding, bringing the total raised to date to $80M. Rose Park Advisors led the...
3 Preparedness Templates Emergency Managers Need Now
Everyone thinks your crew will save them…right now
Strategic Data Across the Emergency Management Stages: How Dragging Three Lifeboats Across Antarctica Can Help You Recover from Disasters
Nobody was lost when the Antarctic pack-ice finally splintered the Endurance. The immediate threat to life ceased when Sir Ernest Shackleton's crew...
Can Universal Digital Licenses Help Your State Thrive?
Advocates for reciprocal licenses shared compelling data in a hearing before the Nebraska's legislative Government, Military, and Veterans Affairs...
The Top 10 Merit Moments of 2021
Here are the Top Ten Merit Moments our teams and amazing partners crossed in 2021. We can't wait to see what 2023 has in store for the Verified...