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Resilience Strategy

CRC Resilience Strategy - Joyce

CRC's strategy work focuses on climate resilience success through transformative policy change, infrastructure improvements, and vibrant partnerships

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Our Approach

What We Deliver

Our founder, Joyce Coffee, led one of the nation’s first citywide climate adaptation strategies in Chicago in 2008. Since then, CRC has helped communities across the U.S. craft actionable resilience strategies that prioritize community needs, infrastructure, and funding readiness.

We convene stakeholders, advise leadership teams, and develop fundable strategies that save lives and improve livelihoods.

Step 01
Assess
Risk Across Hazards, Exposure & Vulnerability
We start by understanding where the real risk sits across flood, heat, drought, storm, and other hazards and who is most exposed to it.
Step 02
Address
Asset Level & Community Wide Climate Impacts
From individual infrastructure to whole communities, we translate risk findings into specific, prioritized impacts that need a response.
Step 03
Design
Policy, Programs & Green/Gray Infrastructure
We design the policy frameworks, programs, and physical infrastructure solutions that turn an assessment into an actionable strategy.

Track Record

Results We Have Driven

A selection of strategy engagements across federal agencies, state governments, municipalities, and philanthropic partners with source links where CRC's work is referenced externally.

Strategic Advisor
US Climate Alliance
Working with the UN Foundation and US Climate Alliance member states, CRC helped launch the Governor's Resilience Playbook, delivered training workshops, and translated TCFD guidance for state leaders. In 2026, CRC continues as a technical assistance partner to key Alliance members.
Subcontractor
Transportation Research Board
As communications lead under WSP, CRC is helping state DOTs build a community led relocation framework for flooding, wildfire, and sea-level rise centering vulnerable populations and local priorities. See more about CRC's community relocation work here.
Strategic Advisor
Willis Towers Watson
A founding member of WTW's Climate & Resilience Strategic Advisory, CRC brings insurance and financing expertise to resilience planning for governments and real estate portfolios. For one western state, CRC helped design financing models to fund wildfire mitigation and rural economic stability.
Corporate Partner
CEMEX
CRC helped CEMEX evolve its Patrimonio Hoy housing initiative, integrating climate-adaptive design and disaster resilience into affordable housing for low-income urban families including retrofit guidance and community engagement on heat, flood, and storm risk.
Strategic Advisor
American Flood Coalition
As strategic advisor to AFC, CRC developed resources supporting the State Resilience Partnership, helping states design equitable flood resilience programs and build local project pipelines in frontline communities.
Prime Contractor
US Environmental Protection Agency
CRC is prime contractor for EPA's Disaster Resilient Communities Blanket Purchase Agreement, delivering Campus RainWorks at an HBCU and a Recovery and Resiliency Partnership in Eatonville, FL. CRC also enhances the Equitable Resilience Builder tool across the Great Lakes region, plus national training for government officials.

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