A new approach to align, support and fund climate, energy and other community action across many cities
Local Community Success, Worldwide January 2010 Š Copyright 2009 Resilient Cities Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Our Challenge
How can we enable many cities and towns that are pursuing the same goals such as climate, energy and jobs action to achieve exceptional results faster?
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Come Together
Make Strides
Share Abundance
Magnify Flow
Resilient Cities Initiative
A Change Model for Communities of any size to Align, Engage, Fund and Sustain Success on Economic, Environmental, Social Projects and Goals
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For Example: Critical Crossroads in Climate Action We are on the verge of “run-away” climate change. We • know the science • see that current systems are limited as presently structured (laws, governments, NGOs and foundations) • Lack of alignment • Limited collaboration (duplication of efforts) • Under-resourced • need response and adaptation to these challenges at scale
New models and collaborations need to scale rapidly 8
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Fragmented Efforts Become Aligned Success RESILIENT CITIES INITIATIVE A COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT SYSTEM for individuals, groups and their projects to • SPEED startup planning • ALIGN goals within projects and across organizations • SHARE skills, resources, funding, knowledge • AVOID duplication, waste, delay • SPREAD and DEEPEN engagement and opportunities • SUSTAIN success through community collaboration
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RCI System Comprised of Integrated Blueprints for Action
Action Implementation and Reporting Tools
Collaboration Network
Resource Generator
Support Services Š Copyright 2009 Resilient Cities Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Alignment and unity The RCI environment enables: • Foundations, NGOs, Companies and Government align their community work – not overlapping • Multi-sector engagement – government groups, foundations, citizen groups, company representatives • Empowerment of individuals – new leadership opportunities in every corner of need and location • Diversity of engagement in projects…projects that inspire ‘non traditional’ community activists • “Community” rather than “isolated” projects - intertwined
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Supports collaboration across sectors/communities Life-cycle of a meshwork
Fragmented, unaligned efforts become measurable results
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MESHWORK TECHNOLOGY PROJECT ACCOUNTABILITY • Scorecards: Goals and Tasks, by person or group • Data: meaningful info - quantitative, rating, status • Track and Transparent: what works, what needs help
COLLABORATION • Find: people, info, skills, resources based on ‘fit’ • Exchange: unique privacy, any level of group • Map: dialogs, connections, projects
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Scorecard Gives Status, Comments, Results
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RCI Integrates Three Key Resources
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INTEGRATED MESHWORK on-line technology environment (Scorecard, knowledge and collaboration)
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SUPPORT SERVICES are always available (user and community support)
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MARKETPLACE purchasing continuously re-fuels financing (e-commerce generating fees for the Purpose)
To help create the change that we desire
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Thank you Evelina Molina youthgreenjobs@gmail.com (707) 236-7335
Susan Mills Susan@Merrimackmanagementassociates.com (510) 524-3434
Adam Pattantyus Adam@Merrimackmanagementassociates.com (603) 759-9687 Š Copyright 2009 Resilient Cities Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved