The Resilience Canopy

🌳 What is The Resilience Canopy? 🍃  The Resilience Canopy is a new nationwide movement to build strong and challenge-ready communities, able to adapt to future shocks and stresses.     🔗 We’re building a community of practice around self-led resilience. The Canopy connects communities with the skills they need to lead their own future ready plans and to a network of partners who can help deliver on those plans through investment, expertise or in-kind support.     We’re looking for communities who are ready to build their resilience and for partners to join and provide support.      👟 The first step begins with our Resilience Practitioner Training. We’re upskilling and mentoring an Australia-wide network of community resilience practitioners to lead their communities on their resilience building journey and help tap into the networks that can help them.   Why is this so important? All communities, but especially those with existing vulnerabilities, can stand stronger in the face of continued shocks and stresses when they're able to identify and work toward building resilience. Powered by ResilientCo, Resilient Cities Catalyst and with foundation funding from Minderoo Foundation.     Learn more at resiliencecanopy.com.au   🔔 Follow our LinkedIn page for updates.   #TheResilienceCanopy #CommunityResilience

💡 A network of resilience practitioners in your backyard? Sounds good, right? We’re seeking new cities, regions and towns across Australia to host Resilience Canopy Practitioner training during 2025 and 2026. 🤔 What’s involved with hosting? If you’re a government, non-profit, community organisation, business or peak body, you can ‘host’ the 4 session practitioner training in your location. This might mean arranging a venue, promoting the training locally and facilitating local connections to get the right people trained, or even funding places for people within your community to train - you choose. We cover the trainer costs and in some cases, the cost for people to attend the training. (Conditions apply) 😃 What’s in it for you? By training locals, the community will benefit from more people actively engaged in strengthening resilience at the grass roots and where it’s needed most. A network of your own local community will gain the tools and strategies necessary to thrive under social challenges and shocks, such as natural disasters. 👍 Interested to learn more? Download the brochure or contact us via the website. https://lnkd.in/gggCtS_Z ResilientCo Minderoo Foundation

💰 💵 💲 Money, capital, equity, finance - let’s demystify this together for community and place building at our upcoming keynote session on April 9. The wonderful Meaghan Burkett, Executive Director & place-based capital lead at Ethical Fields, will be sharing with us the success stories and options for communities to identify access and manage the capital they need to achieve their goals. Join us Online Via ZOOM 🗓️ Wednesday 9 April 2025 ⏰ 10am- 11am AEST (7.00-8.00am AWST  9.30-10.30am ACDT) 📝 Register to attend at the link below, and we’ll send you the Zoom details https://lnkd.in/geB2R_Hp This one-hour online keynote session, presented by The Canopy Collective, will explore why place-based, community-led capital solutions are essential to building a wellbeing economy. Tag a friend below who might be interested. ResilientCo Resilient Cities Catalyst Minderoo Foundation Ethical Fields

🐝 Be quick to secure your place at one of our first batch of practitioner training sessions for 2025. Beginning April 7 in St Kilda, Vic Thanks to our resilience partners, this training is FREE City of Port Phillip locals committed to applying the six-step model. ⏰Dates & Locations (all sessions required): ST.KILDA Thu 24 Apr: 9:30am-12:00pm (Zoom)  Tue 29 Apr: 9:30am-4:30pm (St Kilda Town Hall)  Wed 30 Apr: 9:30am-4:30pm (St Kilda Town Hall)  Wed 7 May: 9:30am-12:00pm (Zoom)    👉 Register now at https://lnkd.in/grGkWi28 🤔 What do I get out of it? You'll learn our six-step, community-led engagement approach to empower and equip your community to overcome challenges and build a resilient future. Thank you to our Partners in resilience. St. Kilda training is made possible with City of Port Phillip support. ResilientCo Minderoo Foundation

"We don't know what we're catering for, and who will be there, so we need a box of tricks for people to survive, so we can continue to exist if we lose power for days". A (paraphrased) reflection from Gordon of Warburton, VIC, last week as we talked to him about Warburton's decade-long journey into community-led resilience. Since 2010, members of Warbuton's community have made things happen for themselves - beginning with a fire danger sign, getting a relay transmitter so that they can hear 774 in an emergency, and making it possible to generate their own hydro-powered electricity. Warburton, continues resilience building with a community session today, deep diving into their challenges and strengths. What's next for them and their vision? Stay tuned as we follow with interest. You can watch Gordon's original video here.  https://lnkd.in/gVSbgCFH ResilientCo, Minderoo Foundation

Like Australia, Florida is no stranger to the frequent shocks of climate change. Given our own experiences, participants at our latest Collective Keynote were very keen to hear from the head of University of Miami Climate Resilience Institute, Michael Berkowitz. Full of aha-moments and thought provokers, Michael shared positive takes on the advances and innovations in global resilience work, as well as the reality bites. If you missed out on tuning in, visit our website (link below) to access the recording. https://lnkd.in/gUC2vjuX There are plenty of gems from this discussion, and Michael brings the perspective North American communities, offering insights that often align with the Australian experience. Our next Collective Keynote on April 9 is with Meaghan Burkett, ED and Place-based Capital Lead – Ethical Fields.  Register now - https://lnkd.in/geB2R_Hp Resilient Cities Catalyst ResilientCo Minderoo Foundation

You might have heard we're on the lookout for some superb people to join us in our mission. We asked four members of our team "What inspires them most about working with The Resilience Canopy". Their answers reflect the kind of passion for supporting community we're seeking in someone to come join us. Sound like you, or someone you know? Find out about what roles are available, or how to support us at https://lnkd.in/gBrK6S3t. Thanks to Natalie Staaks, Sally Hutchinson, Tia Baptista and Jeremy O'Meara for sharing what inspires them.

We’re looking for a number of superstars to join the Resilience Canopy team. We’re passionate about supporting communities to become more resilient in the face of increasing pressures and evolving societal challenges.  About Us:   We are a charitable organisation that operates across Australia. We are a small but mighty team with awesome communities ready to roll. We offer a hybrid working environment, a connected team, amazing work and an 10 additional days leave every year.  About You:   You’re passionate about doing good. You’re keen to learn, and to lead, to use your experience and skills to support communities on the ground, and an ambitious community resilience building program designed to change lives.     Roles Available  Community Coordinator x 2 (VIC and QLD based)  Communications and Marketing Lead   National Partnerships Lead  For more information https://lnkd.in/gBrK6S3t Interested? Reach out to Sally Hutchinson and Natalie Staaks for a chat #CommunityResilience #Careers Brett Ellis ESM Tia Baptista Shannon Bakker Maree Grenfell

What does the Pope think about Climate Change? 🤔 That’s one answer you might hear if you tune into our special online Keynote with Michael Berkowitz of the Climate Resilience Institute (University of Miami) on Feb 5. Michael is a pioneer of global resilience and is also a member of USA’s National Advisory Council on Climate Change and FEMA.   He will have much to share with us about progress being made in resilience research, innovation and collaboration around the world. This discussion is relevant as ever against the backdrop of devastating wildfires and 2024’s ‘hottest year on record’ title. 📢 Catalysing climate change adaptation  🗓️ Wednesday 5 February 2025 ⏰ 10am- 11am AEDT (7.00-8.00am AWST  9.00-10.00am AEST  9.30-10.30am ACDT) 🖥️ Online Via ZOOM 📝 Register to attend at the link below, and we’ll send you the Zoom details https://lnkd.in/gq4JEm6g  This one-hour online keynote session, presented by The Canopy Collective, will explore the opportunities to think and act proactively toward solutions for our most pressing problems caused by climate change. Tag a friend below who might be interested. This is one not to miss. And if you’re interested to learn more about the origins of the Vatican story, see here. https://lnkd.in/e8BWzWXs 📷 Courtesy of University of Miami ResilientCo Resilient Cities Catalyst Minderoo Foundation University of Miami Climate Resilience Institute

Yarra Ranges 2025 Citizen of the year! Congratulations Maureen Halit 💜 💜 We're proud to know you and the work you've done. Described as a champion for Millgrove, VIC- our very first Canopy Community - its not hard to see why her service to the community and her leadership within Millgrove Resident's Action Group (MRAG) landed her this award. We couldn't agree more - so well deserved Maureen! Read more about the award at https://lnkd.in/gZr_uEkm Listen to Maureen's work with Millgrove's Resilience Plan on The Resilience Canopy YouTube. https://lnkd.in/gpfRFdGw ResilientCo Minderoo Foundation Yarra Ranges Council