Resilience Archives - Institute for Sustainable Communities

by Breanna Edwards | October 9, 2021

Building Community Resilience in Chamizal, Texas Through Equity, Advocacy, and Education

Building sustainable communities encompasses understanding the holistic needs in a community. Climate issues are tied to all aspects of human life, including racial equity, financial health, education, and of course, environmental justice. While [...]

Resilience

by ISC Staff | September 10, 2021

Partnership for Resilient Communities Partner Highlights: How it Started vs. How it’s Going

This list is by no means conclusive, it lifts up only a handful of the major accomplishments, milestones, and highlights of the PRC partners so far this year. Please click the links to each organization’s website to learn more and directly [...]

ISC Update

by Breanna Edwards | September 9, 2021

How Eastside Community Network Supports Detroiters Through Crisis and Through Life

In late June, the city of Detroit, Michigan experienced record rainfall that resulted in devastating floods. The unprecedented rainfall, which caused damage to thousands of homes and businesses, was the second time a supposedly 500-year rain [...]

Climate

by Divya Nazareth | August 14, 2021

Leading Action on Climate Change : Why Rural Women Matter for Equitable Adaptation

A moral challenge for adaptation in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for both policy and practice is “leaving no one behind”. Rural women are at risk from a double whammy of climate change and pre-existing discriminatory [...]

Resilience

by ISC Staff | June 23, 2021

U.S. Program Hosts Spring Convenings

Spring has sprung and with it an abundance of convenings and peer-learning events across ISC’s U.S. Programs. Over the span of two months, the team successfully pulled together three convenings and one peer-learning event, which were all held [...]

Resilience

by Breanna Edwards | May 26, 2021

A Look Inside the 2021 Partnership for Resilient Communities Convening

The COVID-19 pandemic has altered a lot about how we interact with and learn from one another, but one thing the pandemic has not been able to change is the way PRC partners show up and show out for the annual convening as they engage with one [...]

Resilience

by ISC Staff | May 26, 2021

Partnership for Resilient Communities Partner Highlights

This list is by no means conclusive, it lifts up only a handful of the major accomplishments, milestones, and highlights of the PRC partners so far this year. Please click the links to each organization’s website to learn more and directly [...]

Resilience

by Breanna Edwards | May 26, 2021

Building Sustainable Communities Through A Green Workforce

Baltimore and Milwaukee are two different cities, home to different communities with different needs. However, both of these cities are also home to a local organization dedicated to elevating and supporting its local community, specifically [...]

Climate

by Radiah Shabazz | January 27, 2021

Bringing Equity to Recovery Efforts in the Upper Texas Gulf Coast

How One Regional Resilience Initiative is Building Power in Communities Major climate disasters disproportionately impact low income, low heath, and communities of color. From health to home to economy to well-being, these communities are [...]

ISC Update

by Radiah Shabazz | January 27, 2021

Preserving Black History in Petersburg, VA

USO Beaux-Twenty Club Poised for Designation on National Register of Historic Places The Heights Community in Petersburg, Virginia is a historically Black district, once known for its affluence. At one time, the Heights was a community of [...]

Resilience

by ISC Staff | January 27, 2021

Partnership for Resilient Communities Partner Highlights

This list is by no means conclusive, it lifts up only a handful of the major accomplishments, milestones, and highlights of the PRC partners so far this year. Please click the links to each organization’s website to learn more and directly [...]

Climate

by Sushama Darne | December 4, 2020

Maintaining Soil Health – Key to Agricultural Development

Back in 2015, the United Nations launched the International Year of the Soils and flagged off the first ever World Soil Day on December 5th. The nourishing, sustaining life force on which agriculture inalienably relies, has been called [...]

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