Building Momentum for Resilience Hubs Across the Bay Area

March 26, April 24th, May 22nd 

1-3 pm, online 

Join Thrive Alliance and Collective Resilience for a three-part workshop series to understand the landscape of resilience hubs in the Bay Area, learn the concepts and tools needed to develop resilience hubs, and develop partnerships with nonprofits, governments, and funders. We will lay the groundwork to develop a robust network of resilience hubs across the Bay Area for communities that need them most.

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Workshop Sessions

Session One: Tuesday, March 26, 1- 3 pm

 

The State of Resilience Hubs in the Bay Area

This workshop will introduce participants to resilience hubs, their definitions, and the Urban Sustainability Directors Network’s five components. We will also map out organizations who are working on or collaborating with  resilience hubs. Guest speakers include:

Session Two: Tuesday April 24th, 1-3 pm

 Funding and Development of Resilience Hubs

This session will focus on two important topics: getting started on developing sites as resilience hubs, and potential sources of funding for them. We will hear from sites just getting started, and learn about both public and private funding to support them.

Guest Speakers: coming soon

Session Three: Tuesday May 22nd, 1-3 pm 

 

Building a Network and Next Steps

This last session will provide insights into how we can move forward in taking this work to the next level. We will look at different types of networks, analyze together how organizations could support each other at both the city, county and regional levels and brainstorm about next steps for resilience hubs.

Guest Speakers: coming soon

Connect. Tour. Share.

DATE: TBD

Join Regeneration Pollination and the Global Regeneration CoLab for a solid hour of “speed networking” – simply talking 1-1 with fellow workshop participants  working on resilience hubs. It will be hosted by facilitators and is a great opportunitiy for fun, short (6 minutes), one-on-one conversations online! 

April 17th: noon-2:30:  Tour of the RYSE Center 

Take a tour of  the RYSE Center, an innovative youth center in Richmond CA touted as an exemplary resilience hubs model. Learn about their resilient energy system, innovative youth progamming and more. After the hour-long tour we will provide snacks and an opportunity to meet each other. We only have 15 slots available, so please fill out this form to secure your spot.

Share your articles, events, stories and resources

Are you already working on an innvoative resilience hub site? Do you have any projects or resources that could of use to their development? We would love to share them on our website! Please fill out this form to share your resources. We are looking for: case studies and stories, replicable projects, & reports articles and any other helpful information you want to share. As well, feel free to share any relevant Bay Area events happening in April-May.