Fast Company: This new organization wants to help cities create a broader idea of what resilience means
Founded in 2013, the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities program worked with a network of cities from New Orleans to Dakar, Senegal, helping them prepare for future disasters, by doing things such as launching storm management projects, creating chief resilience officer positions, and generally preparing their communities to handle future stressors that would affect the way residents and businesses thrive. Then, in July 2019, it was suddenly and unceremoniously dissolved.
For Michael Berkowitz, president of 100 Resilient Cities (100RC), the work wasn’t finished. Berkowitz is now a founding principal of Resilient Cities Catalyst, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that officially launched this week. Led by former 100RC executives and with a board that includes former Rockefeller Foundation president Judith Rodin, Resilient Cities Catalyst is ready to pick up where the previous program left off—and take things even further.
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