Capital Ready: Building the Next Generation of Climate Resilience Hubs
Climate resilience hubs belong in practice. Join us to explore how communities are creating spaces that help people stay rooted, strengthen local assets, and build resilience.
Long before the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), there were communities organizing for climate resilience — building coalitions, claiming space, and making the case that resilience hubs aren’t a luxury, but essential infrastructure for the neighborhoods most exposed to climate impacts. That work hasn’t slowed down.
GGRF was one chapter in that story — a major catalyst for climate financing that has since stalled under the new administration. But the organizing didn’t start there, nor is it ending there. If anything, this moment is sharpening the field’s focus on what durable, diversified climate financing actually requires.
Join the Anti-Displacement Network and Next City for a conversation about what it takes to plan, fund, build, and sustain climate resilience hubs — from both sides of the table—the coalitions mobilizing community on the ground and the mission-aligned investors who can help fund it.
We’ll dig into questions like:
- Why is coalition building the foundation of capital readiness, not an afterthought — and what does that organizing work look like in practice?
- What makes the economic and social case for mission-aligned investors to fund climate resilience hubs — especially in communities of color disproportionately impacted by climate change?
- What does it actually mean for a community to be “capital ready,” and how do you get there?
- How can small businesses serve as anchors and mobilize organizers around resilience