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About Climate Resilience Consulting

Climate Resilience Consulting (CRC) is a women-owned small business based in Chicago, with over 30 years of global experience helping communities, governments, and institutions avoid, prepare for, and resist climate impacts. We specialize in climate adaptation strategy, green infrastructure, resilience hubs, project implementation, and capacity building.

We envision a thriving future with more lives saved and livelihoods enhanced amid climate change disruption.

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CRC’s work is centered around three key aspects of resilience: Strategy, Implementation, and Thought Leadership. See how we can help you increase resilience.

Our Services

    • Engaging communities to understand resilience challenges and opportunities

    • Catalyzing equitable and vibrant partnerships

    • Building capacity for transformative change

    • Identifying and supporting bids for finance

    • Developing achievable concepts and action plans

    • Creating workplans, designs, and budgets

    • Identifying and tackling emerging climate challenges

    • Educating and training to prepare for the future

    • Demystifying and communicating solutions

Our Clients & Partners

CRC 2023-2024 Partners

We aim to grow the climate resilience field and frequently invite other consultancies to join our teams.

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CRC 2023-2024 Clients

Over 90% of our clients request repeat business.

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Testimonials

  • "Thank you so much for working with us! We really appreciate all your team has done to help set us up for success. We wouldn't have got to where we are without you"

    Community-based Organization Leader

  • “You are approachable, easy to work with and welcoming. I found it delightful to work with you. Your understanding of the topic and your enthusiasm to create transformative change shows in the materials you delivered to us.”

    Federal Extreme Heat Leader

  • “Your report is fantastic. For someone with no experience in this sector, I found the report to be readable and easily understood. The discussion and the examples provided were quite helpful and Next Steps actions listed are clear and on pointThanks for your work!”

    California State Official

  • “You are experts at facilitating advisory groups, putting together a complex puzzle, and managing to engage both the advisory committee and service providers in an intelligent, coherent and innovative way that resulted in transformative change.”

    Financial services leader

  • “My commissioner and I were reflecting on the event and we were so impressed with your facilitation skills (you ask better questions than Terri Gross) and your persistence to [social] equity. We were anxious to see how (and if) we would wrestle with the difficult task and you were remarkable in your capacity. Thank you for your leadership. I look forward to continuing in this good work with colleagues like you.”

    City Chief Resilience Officer

  • “Thank you to Joyce and your team for being flexible and offering adaptive and expert pro bono technical assistance to this community.”

    Federal Community Resilience Professional

  • “Climate Resilience Consulting is a small GIANT. We love your entrepreneurial ideas and whip smart execution. You have a heart-felt enthusiasm and a focus on US. We choose you because we get to work with YOU!”

    International Corporate Manager

  • “I thought the workshop you designed was great, and I’m eager to see what comes from it. Thank you for your leadership, thoughtfulness, and enthusiasm.”

    National Philanthropic Fund Leader

  • “Thank you for excellent facilitation throughout the day and your deep commitment to this work. It’s great we can rely on you to bring the national lens and bring CDFIs and other partners.”

    National Affordable Housing Leader

  • “Nobody facilitates a meeting or manages a far-flung team like Joyce. Her ability to cull out team goals, support development of action plans, manage execution, and produce results is among the top of her field. We are fortunate to have her on our team.”

    National Nonprofit Executive

  • “We have a serious problem: We need more of you! The whole team agrees you are key to our success.”

    International Corporate C-Suite

  • “Joyce, You are doing a phenomenal job. Your support was instrumental to create the first version of our tool and we will continue using your services whenever possible.”

    International Corporate C-Suite

  • “This work can be very gloom and doom. Joyce, you have always been cheer and steer. We are all better for it.”

    International Nonprofit Executive

Certificates

Climate Resilience Consulting is a certified SBA Women Owned Small Business and WBE.

We are a Social Enterprise.

Certificate of National Women's Business Enterprise Certification awarded to Joyce Coffee Consulting LLC for Climate Resilience Consulting, issued June 30, 2016, signed by Emelia DiMenco, with various logos at the bottom.
Certificate issued by Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) certifying Joyce Coffee Consulting LLC for climate resilience consulting, with signatures from WBENC executives and certification details.
Letter from the U.S. Small Business Administration with logo, date September 30, 2024, addressed to Joyce Coffee of Joyce Coffee Consulting LLC, informing of continued eligibility for Women-Owned Small Business Federal Contract Program, signed by Alisa Sheard, SBA Federal Contract Program Director.