The Neighborhood Resiliency Project

Building neighborhood-level climate resilience through emergency preparedness.

preparing cape ann for climate emergencies

The Neighborhood Resiliency Project helps households and communities prepare for floods, power outages, and heat waves. Through a series of local events and multilingual outreach, we work to ensure everyone knows what to do, where to go, and how to stay safe. Our goal is to make sure that every household on Cape Ann is prepared for an emergency.

How It Works

The project uses a traveling roadshow event that brings preparedness education directly into neighborhood and to vulnerable populations.

Visiting civic hubs, community centers, and gathering spaces.

Offering training, emergency preparedness resources.

Collaborating with social services that serve seniors, families, environmental justice communities, and people with disabilities.

This work begins in Gloucester and will expand across the Cape Ann region.

Why It Matters

Resilience starts with informed communities. By reaching people where they live and providing information on how to take action we:

Promote neighborhood leadership.
Strengthen recovery after climate events.
Offer nonprofits a free, high-value service to share with their clients.

A Model That Can Scale

This is more than a local project, it’s a replicable approach designed to build resilience from the ground up.

The Neighborhood Resiliency Project is built on a flexible model that can be adapted by communities of all types, whether bound by geography, shared resources, or cultural connections. It supports emergency preparedness at the neighborhood level, especially in communities that have historically faced greater barriers during climate-related events.
By combining multilingual education, community-centered outreach, nonprofit partnerships, and measurable outcomes, the project aims to ensure that all households, including seniors, families, and vulnerable groups, are equipped with emergency kits, vital information, and local resources they need to stay safe.

Interested in having the Neighborhood Resiliency Project come to your neighborhood?