• U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit
  Federal resources, data, tools, case studies, and frameworks for understanding and addressing climate-related risks.

• Steps to Resilience
  A structured process for identifying community assets, understanding hazards and vulnerability, investigating options, prioritizing actions, and implementing resilience plans. 

• Implementing the Steps to Resilience: A Practitioner’s Guide
  A series of guidebooks designed to help practitioners and communities move through the resilience-planning process. 

• Resilience Hubs
  The Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN) offers a practical guide for communities interested in getting started with resilience hubs, including guidance for planning and developing spaces that support community needs and provide resources and services before, during, and after disruptions. 

• Community Assets and Critical Functions Worksheet
  This worksheet helps communities identify what must continue functioning during and after disruption—and the people, organizations, places, services, infrastructure, and relationships that support those functions.

• Systems-Thinking and Iceberg Tools
  These tools help participants move beyond individual events to examine recurring patterns, underlying structures, decision-making systems, and assumptions that may be producing persistent challenges.

• Human-Centered Design Resources
  This design method guides communities through understanding people’s experiences, defining challenges, generating ideas, testing possible approaches, and adapting solutions based on learning. 

• Multisolving Institute
  Resources for developing strategies that address climate change while creating additional benefits for health, equity, affordability, economic well-being, and community resilience.

• Pathway to Action Worksheet
  Helps a group define a multisolving strategy, select a realistic first step, identify necessary partners, anticipate barriers, and determine what support is needed.

• Planning and Prioritization Tools
  Worksheets and processes that help communities compare potential actions based on benefits, equity, feasibility, cost, urgency, community support, and implementation capacity.
  Coming soon!

• Resilience Metrics Toolkit
  A six-step process for defining desired resilience outcomes, selecting indicators, tracking metrics, and using results to inform decisions and adaptation. 

• Equity and Energy-Justice Assessment Tools
  Resources for considering who receives benefits, who carries burdens, who participates in decisions, whose knowledge is recognized, and how past harms can be addressed.

Planning must ultimately lead to action. These resources help communities identify funding opportunities, strengthen project readiness, build partnerships, develop implementation responsibilities, and connect proposed investments to multiple public benefits.

Coming Soon!