Building the Next Generation of Climate Resilience Hubs
Climate resilience hubs belong in practice. Join Next City and explore how communities are creating spaces that help people stay rooted, strengthen local assets, and build resilience.
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What You'll Learn
Learn what makes a community “capital ready” to plan, finance, build and sustain climate resilience hubs. Participants will explore coalition-building, mission-aligned investment, community-centered financing and the role small businesses can play as anchors for neighborhood resilience
Why This Matters
Climate resilience hubs can provide essential neighborhood infrastructure for communities facing climate impacts, displacement pressures and unequal access to investment. The discussion examines how communities can build more durable and diversified financing strategies rather than depending on a single government funding program
Action Level - LEARN
What You'll Leave With
A clearer understanding of capital readiness for climate resilience projects Strategies for building community coalitions before seeking investment Insights into what mission-aligned investors and CDFIs look for Ideas for involving small businesses in resilience hubs Examples and lessons from community-development practitioners Access to the webinar recording through Next City's webinar library after the event
Best For - Community Leaders, Social Entrepreneurs, Systems Designers, Educators, Students, Journalists / Media, Businesses, Investors / Funders, Local Governments, Policymakers, NGOs / Civil Society, General Public
Systems It Connects To - Circularity & Whole-System Design, Clean & Renewable Energy, Food Production & Distribution, ICT & Cybersecurity, Public & Planetary Health, Smarter Cities & Communities, Ethical Finance, Water, Infrastructure, Supply Chains
Languages - English
Recording / Replay Available? - Yes
Replay / Resource URL - https://nextcity.org/webinars
Practical Next Step - Identify a neighborhood, organization or proposed resilience hub that needs investment, then assess whether it has the community coalition, local partners, small-business participation and financing strategy needed to become capital ready. Use the webinar insights to identify gaps and begin conversations with community-development lenders, CDFIs and mission-aligned investors.