Book

Helping small businesses
Following our displacement from lower Manhattan on 9-11, we wrote a book to assist other small businesses with the benefit of our hard-earned experience. Donna assigned her share of the authors' royalties to endow an academic program in her dad's name. This book fills an important need.

Disasters occur more frequently than we realize: in 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency recognized major disasters in 46 of the 50 states. This does not include the catastrophic effects of more frequent, localized disasters, such as fires or computer crashes. According to FEMA, 40% of small businesses fail to re-open following a major disaster; a figure it believes would improve significantly with modest investments in contingency planning.

This book provides small businesses with simple, cost-effective solutions to safeguard their businesses and their livelihoods. An investment in contingency planning will yield an immediate return by improving the efficiency of operating processes, even if disaster never strikes.