City welcomes stakeholders to 100 Resilient Cities kickoff workshop Thursday

The City of Dallas’ first engagement in their partnership with 100 Resilient Cities, pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation (100RC), will be held Thursday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Scottish Rite Library and Museum, 500 S. Harwood.

The “Resilience Agenda-Setting Workshop” will bring a diverse group of stakeholders from across local government, the private sector, philanthropic institutions, non-profit organizations, academia, and civic groups into the planning process. It seeks to uncover all the threats the city is facing, including those previously unknown, while unveiling resilience building tools and plans to address those potential threats.

“The City of Dallas Resilience Strategy will be a holistic, action-oriented plan to build partnerships and alliances, identify financing mechanisms, and will pay particular attention to understanding the impacts of chronic shocks and long term stressors on the City’s poor and vulnerable populations,” said City of Dallas Chief Resilience Officer Theresa O’Donnell. The workshop will begin the process of identifying priorities, actions, and metrics, and the strategy will be developed in the next year.

“Dallas is helping fuel global momentum around building urban resilience, and leading by example,” said 100 Resilient Cities President Michael Berkowitz. “The agenda workshop will clarify the city’s needs, surface innovative thinking, and give us a blueprint for engaging partners from across sectors to bring Dallas the tools and resources needed to become more resilient.”

Dallas is one of 67 members of what will ultimately be a 100-city global network, and will receive technical support and resources to develop and implement a Resilience Strategy.

For more information visit: http://www.100resilientcities.org/about-us.