Resilience Implementation
CRC supports communities and institutions to turn their plans for resilience into real-world outcomes. Our services include project finance advising, capacity-building, stakeholder facilitation, and one-on-one coaching to help partners build momentum and stay funded.
Resilience Implementation
Turning resilience plans into real-world outcomes is where many communities and corporations get stuck. Barriers like limited funding, short political cycles, and disconnects between planners, residents, and infrastructure providers slow progress.
At Climate Resilience Consulting, we help bridge these gaps by:
Aligning climate resilience projects with available funding and institutional goals
Facilitating cross-sector collaboration between decision-makers and communities
Developing actionable policies and implementation-ready roadmaps
Supporting strong partnerships to ensure long-term success
We specialize in moving strategies from concept to construction—especially in frontline communities navigating extreme heat, flooding, or energy burden.
Enterprise Community Partners
CRC is Enterprise’s resilience subject matter expert for HUD and FEMA’s Pre-Disaster Housing Planning Initiative, aiming to find better solutions for planning and executing post-disaster housing, and to move from short-term sheltering programs to more sustainable housing solutions following a disaster. As part of this work, CRC supported efforts in Missouri to improve state capacity to manage housing operations and administer housing programs, including through action prioritization, task force operations and disaster housing planning.
US Environmental Protection Agency
CRC was lead contractor for the USEPA’s Community Change Equitable Resilience Technical Assistance (CCERTA) in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Puerto Rico & USVI, and Midwest & Mountains super-regions, supporting disaster resilience in America’s vulnerable communities.
CRC’s team, including 24 small businesses, supported 26 communities to develop project ideas, conceptual designs, community engagement, budgets, government and other partner relationships and grant proposals. Our team created over 210 renderings and maps working on over 50 sites to lay the foundations of resilience hubs, green infrastructure areas, mobility and residential resilience initiatives.
Explore our Videobook for a visual journey through community resilience designs and strategies
US Department of Housing and Urban Development
As subcontractor to Enterprise Community Partners and IEM, CRC delivered local government workshops for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Climate Communities Initiative Technical Assistance Program. CRC also provided direct technical assistance to HUD clients including Youngstown, OH, College Station, TX and Gary, IN. Topics included extreme heat adaptation, vulnerable populations, community engagement, and resilience implementation.
ECT Great Lakes Nearshore Engineering and Design
CRC led core team and community engagement efforts to develop nature-based solutions that welcome communities into natural spaces in rural and urban areas of Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois. Services included facilitating in-person and virtual meetings, conducting community asset mapping, designing interpretive signage for natural areas, and creating a toolkit to prevent green gentrification. The toolkit also addressed improving physical and mental health, highlighting cultural history, and engaging youth through trauma-informed approaches.
Sustainable Cities Network
CRC facilitated the creation of the Sustainable Cities Network Strategic Plan including leading focus groups and steering committee workshops to further the network as a vehicle for communities in and around Phoenix, AZ to share knowledge and coordinate efforts to understand and solve sustainability problems. The work follows on our contributions to the Urban Resilience to Extremes Strategic Research Network.
NOAA/Climate Resilience Fund
Through mixed methods research and advisory group facilitation, CRC co-led the development of Ready-to-Fund Resilience (RFR) resources with the American Society of Adaptation Professionals, including a technical document, toolkit, and local government training. RFR describes “how” local government leads and partners can design more fundable projects by pulling specific policy levers, establishing key partnerships, using innovative accounting practices, inverting power structures, and rethinking and redesigning internal processes. This project became a part of the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit Steps to Resilience framework.
US Environmental Protection Agency
CRC is a prime contractor for the USEPA’s Office of Community Revitalization Blanket Purchase Agreement.
As part of this, we worked with Smart Growth America to develop and facilitate the Sustainable Communities Accelerator Network. Through 2024-25, this network provided interactive training for city government practitioners and community-based organizations seeking to implement smart growth and sustainability plans across the U.S.
Western Project-Heat
Working through the US Climate Alliance, CRC partnered with Governor’s Offices, including the senior climate advisor, emergency management, health, housing, utility, and county leaders, to form a statewide extreme heat messaging group. Collaborating with the National Weather Service and regional leaders, CRC conducted research, developed materials, and facilitated meetings to enhance Governor’s office extreme heat communication and activation strategies.
Buy-in Community Partners
Climate Resilience Consulting and ONE Architecture & Urbanism are Technical Delivery Partners with Buy-In Community Planning and Cherokee Concerned Citizens on the Relocation to Restoration Project (R2R) in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The project aims to develop a strategy to acquire high-risk properties from willing owners of Cherokee Forest and restore the parcels into native Gulf Coast landscapes in order to provide an essential ecological “blue-green buffer” to protect nearby homes and businesses from flooding and industrial pollution. The project is funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
