Resources for Resilience

FUNDRAISING & REGENERATIVE RESOURCE SHARING

Northern California is one of the wealthiest regions on the planet, and home to hundreds of community-based projects and organizations working on climate solutions. But most are underfunded, work in silos and do not prioritize marginalized communities.

The NorCal Resilience Network is committed to bringing urgently needed resources to community resilience practitioners by raising funds for our partners and projects, and redistributing them to our partners and allies. We also participate in innovative fundraising models like the Thriving Resilient Communities Collaboratory.

• The Lift Economy invests in B-Corps companies run by women people of color through their Force for Good Fund.
• The East Bay Reciprocity Network is creating a time bank where participants can trade skills without using money.
• The Sogorea Te’ Land Trust has created the Shuumi Land Tax,  a voluntary annual financial contribution that non-Indigenous people living on traditional Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone territory make to support their critical work.

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Learn more about grant writing, donations from small businesses, crowdfunding and more on our fundraising for grassroots organizations resources page. 

REGENERATIVE DISASTER PREPAREDNESS

How can communities take a regenerative and holistic approach to disasters? What does preparation for earthquakes have in common with being ready for the increased drought and wildfires that the Climate Crisis is bringing?  In addition to the Resilience Hubs Initiative supporting demonstration sites for resiliency, learn about what our partners are doing to support regenerative disaster readiness.

From Our Partners

• The Berkeley Disaster Preparedness Network is working to equitably support Berkeley neighborhoods and individuals who live or work in Berkeley to respond to large-scale emergencies.
• People’s Community Medic >is a grassroots collective based in Oakland that trains community members in basic emergency first aid skills to enable each person to be able to provide an immediate, first line of emergency medical care for those who have sustained gunshot wounds, knife wounds, and other traumatic injuries, until emergency medical services can arrive on scene.

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Check out this comprehensive list of disaster preparedness resources. Examples include:

• A list of mininum supplies needed for two weeks
• Article about composting toilets
• Portable Solar Generators, from Sol Solutions

DECOLONIZING PERMACULTURE

According to co-founder of the permaculture movement, Bill Mollison, Permaculture Design is a 10,000 year old technology made up of indigenous knowledges from all over the world. This concept is problematic in that it:

• Generalizes the thousands of different peoples, cultures and practices from which Mollison drew his practices
• Extracts these practices and values from their distinct cultural contexts
• Adds to the pervasive notion that indigenous people and practices are extinct or a thing of the past
• Erases the blood, sweat and wisdom accumulated over thousands of years of land-based cultures.
• Appropriates, brands and commodifies the wisdom of a multitude of indigenous cultures without giving recognition or reparations to the communities from which principles were taken.

From Our Partners

• Planting Justice is a grassroots organization with a mission to empower people impacted by mass incarceration and other social inequities with the skills and resources to cultivate food sovereignty, economic justice, and community healing. 
• The Urban Permaculture Institute helps to make permaculture design relevant and accessible to people living in cities for individual and community resilience. In an era of a changing climate, species extinction, obscene inequality and economic exploitation many are seeking ways to live where we can meet our needs more directly, beautify and heal the land in our communities and transform and dismantle systems of oppression. Our role is to help lift up what we already know works, honor and reclaim what indigenous people know through lived experience and remember ourselves as nature.

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