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Services
Resilient Communities, L3C serves rural communities through facilitative leadership*, working with local municipalities, organizations, and businesses to collaboratively design and implement values-based initiatives for people and planet.
* Facilitative leadership is the dynamic and effective ability to move a process along in the most inclusive, focused, energized and alive way possible.
Community Planning
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Designing and facilitating community visioning processes
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Assessing community challenges
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Developing strategies to address community challenges
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Process and project management
What is your community's collective vision?
A strong plan for addressing community challenges often begins with a community visioning process. We can help you design and facilitate an equitable and engaging community process to define your community's vision, assess and prioritize challenges, and build a strategy to identify and implement solutions the entire community can support.
Climate Action
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Facilitating climate action planning
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Accessing climate resilience expertise
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Building community capacity to address climate challenges
How can you address climate impacts to your community?
Building a stronger community in the face of climate-related hazards involves both Climate Adaptation (preparing for the impacts of climate change) and Climate Mitigation (reducing and eliminating greenhouse gas emissions). Working with other climate resilience practitioners, we can help you identify and implement climate adaptation and mitigation solutions.
Access to Funding
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Matching projects to funding solutions
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Grant writing and management
How will your community pay for resilience solutions?
Finding the right private, state, and federal grant and loan options to make your resilience solutions a reality can be a nuanced and time-consuming process to navigate. We can help match you with funding solutions that meet your community capacity and ability to raise local capital and can connect you with additional expertise to navigate the public funding landscape.
What does it mean to be Resilient?
We like to define resilience as the ability of a community to anticipate, plan for, and mitigate or lessen the challenges — and seize the opportunities — associated with environmental and social change. Traditional definitions of resilience talk about a system's ability to “bounce back” in the face of a disaster or in the face of adversity. We want to do better than the status quo by helping to build stronger communities. That’s why we refer to resilience as “bouncing forward” vs. "bouncing back."