Resilient Cities

Resilient Cities and Communities Coalition – (RC3) www.rc3mn.org

In 2020, the Alliance for Sustainability is supporting elected leaders, city staff, and citizen volunteers from 50+ MN cities to launch the Resilient Cities and Communities Coalition (RCCC) to work together to meet their community-wide energy, climate, and resiliency goals. Member cities will learn together, share best practices, and become successful, inspiring models for other cities throughout Minnesota and the Midwest.

RC3 Overview	Innovating Solutions	Collaborating for Impact
Shaping Public Policy	Engaging Community Stakeholders	Modeling Resilience to Catalyze Change

Recent RC3 Workshops & Networking Gatherings with City Leaders

April 4 2020 Climate Action Planning – Video Link – Environmental Commissions Webinar

West Metro Cities – Jan 22, 2020 (14 cities) Next Steps and Action Resources

East Metro Cities – Feb 13, 2002 (12 cities) Next Steps and Action Resources

Find out how you and your city can make a difference through more impactful collaboration, innovative programs, community engagement, and policy advocacy. Contact Sean Gosiewski, 612 250-0389sean@afors.org.

Resilient Cities and Communities Coalition Goals & Activities

Goal 1: Innovating Solutions

Four City Climate Adaptation Pilot Project
Consulting Services

Goal 2: Collaborating for Impact –

RC3 Events – Convening City Leaders to share best practices
RC3 Clearinghouse
RC3 County based Teams of Cities
RC3 Topic Teams of Cities

Goal 3: Shaping Public Policy – Cities and communities advocating together for state policies needed to accelerate local resilience.

Collaboration with the Governor’s Climate Sub Cabinet
Current Action Alerts for City Leaders
Supporting Cities to Adopt High Impact Model Ordinances

Goal 4: Engaging Community Stakeholders –

Helping establish and mentor new sustainability commissions and citizen sustainability coalitions.
Supporting Cities to share best practices for community engagement
Litter Be Gone Project – city wide volunteer clean ups Oct 1 to 10
Expanding support among residents, youth, businesses, congregations
County and Senate District Candidate Forums and Candidate Surveys

Goal 5: Modeling Resilience – Modeling resilience to catalyze change regionally, nationally and globally

Expanding RC3’s Membership, Leadership, Staffing & Partnerships
Our Theory of Change and State, Regional and National Peer Learning Networks

We are exploring long term ways we can sync up new resources being developed by the Met Council, GreenSteps, RCCC, Metro Counties and nonprofits to support and empower MN cities achieve their climate goals on time as a Regional Climate Collaborative (see the excellent summary) Regional Climate Collaboratives