The Race for ECHO is coming right up on September 27. This fun run hosted by the Secure360 Conference is an annual event with proceeds always going to a local charity. This year, we’re supporting ECHO Minnesota a leader in multi-language health, safety, civic engagement and emergency readiness communication ECHO bridges the communication gap immigrants and refugees all throughout Minnesota. Not a bad cause at all.
But wait; there’s more!
ECHO Minnesota can help your organization
We love collecting money to support ECHO Minnesota, but there’s more to it than just that. We also want to help them get the word out to others. If you’re struggling to reach diverse communities, ECHO Minnesota can help. Check out their cultural training toolkits, get information about various cultural groups represented in Minnesota that you can circulate to your staff and personnel. Toolkits can also help you integrate diverse communities into your emergency preparedness planning.
ECHO Minnesota is good in an emergency
It’s what they do! In emergency situations, ECHO Minnesota is there to help the community and officials work together and stay safe. They offer a health and safety crisis line where community members can call for information and instructions on how to stay safe and where to get more information. They also spread messages on television, radio and online.
ECHO Minnesota has a comprehensive emergency operations plan that officials can activate during a crisis to translate, produce and distribute critical information quickly and effectively.
The work ECHO Minnesota does helps keep our community safe and healthy during emergencies. We support that.
We work together
We’re helping out ECHO Minnesota because they’ve helped us out! You might recognize executive director of ECHO Lillian McDonald; she’s been the Secure360 Conference MC for the past two years.
We believe in ECHO Minnesota’s mission and we’re supporting them this year because we’re stronger together. Secure360 is all about educating and learning from each other, ECHO Minnesota helps make that happen across cultures in Minnesota.
We have more than a few great reasons for supporting ECHO Minnesota this year with our race, and we’d love for you to get in on it too. All you have to do is register for the race!
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