Resilient Cities & Communities

Resilient Cities & Communities

Visionary Leaders, Vibrant Communities, Regenerative Futures

Please support our vital work with Resilient Cities and Communities as we work with teams in 50 cities collaborating to implement high-impact climate actions by making a one-time gift or monthly sustaining gift of $25 $50, $100, $250, $500 during MN Give to the Max month in November.

Help us raise $20,000 for RCC’s work in 2024 connecting residents, cities & counties to get local projects done!

Hands on Projects – Getting big things done with residents & cities!  

• Protecting Our Lakes and Rivers with Fall & Spring Clean Ups, Adopt a Drain & Raking Leaves off Streets https://rccmn.co/water/ 
• Minneapolis Climate Equity Plan City-Community Implementation – We’re connecting volunteers by ward to engage their neighbors to get their homes weatherized, install heat pumps, plant trees https://rccmn.co/minneapolis/
• Hi-Lake District Geothermal Planning– We’re meeting with residents, businesses & developers to make new buildings geothermal-ready to reduce heating & cooling costs https://rccmn.co/district-ground-source-energy/

Peer Learning & Action - Connecting cities to implement projects together to scale up high-impact actions state-wide

• County Clusters  We’re convening city, community & county leaders in December share ideas to strengthen their local Green Teams and explore applying for federal and state grants to implement high impact projects together for low-carbon, resilient & affordable, buildings transportation & energy systems. https://rccmn.co/county-clusters/
• 21st Century Communities Peer-Learning Webinars join us 2nd Thurs, 12:30pm to 2pm on zoom with city teams guiding large site redevelopments with developers to include low-carbon & resilient buildings, energy & transportation systems https://rccmn.co/21st-century-communities/
• BIPOC Local Elected Leaders Peer-Learning Network (with Nexus) Experienced Mayors & City Council Members mentoring & supporting new BIPOC elected leaders to advance priority projects https://rccmn.co/bipoc-elected-leaders/

Collaborative Climate Implementation – We’re linking state, metro, county, city, nonprofit, community & EJ leaders to boost local implementation with new federal and state climate funding rccmn.co/collaborative-climate-implementation/

• Making High-Impact City Climate Actions Easier – We’re reaching out to city, nonprofit, business & community leaders to work with the State Climate Goal Teams to learn from successful projects, develop strategy maps & funding recommendations for priority actions cities want to take https://rccmn.co/high-impact-actions/
• 2024 MN Environmental Congress – We’re proposing to the EQB & partners to co-organize the Bi-Annual Event with concurrent in-person metro and regional locations with interactive topic sessions for state, county & city staff, nonprofit, business and citizen leaders to plan next steps to stay on track to achieve our state climate goals on time while expanding access to healthy air, water and green jobs.  https://rccmn.co/mn-environmental-congress/

City & County Indigenous Acknowledgement & Partnerships 

• We’re linking local Dakota & Indigenous leaders and community volunteers with regional, county and city parks and open space planning to encourage respectful partnerships with Dakota & Indigenous led-initiatives to restore local Dakota Place names and habitat and expand ecological co-management & cultural/historical interpretation & programs https://rccmn.co/land-water-acknowledgement/

With your support we’re connecting teams of citizen & elected leaders and city staff from 50 Minnesota cities, linking experienced cities to mentor nearby cities to put new state and federal climate funding to work.

Local leaders, nonprofit and public sector staff active with RCC are working together to co-create a healthy state-wide ecosystem supporting local climate implementation and equitable, resilient communities. 

We can’t do our work without you! Thanks for donating today and for joining us this fall!