Dear colleagues,

If you’re interested in strengthening community resilience, forming new partnerships, and beginning *action plans*, please see the information below about the *Resilient Vermont Summit!*

*Think Global, Act Local *- A day (April 29) to help get that local resilience action planned and projects started! See: https://alumni.norwich.edu/CROsARCsummit

Have you got a community wanting to build a* local resilience team*?! Items in a Hazard Mitigation Plan that need creative outreach methods, or more volunteers to *get the work done*?! Would your initiatives benefit from new partners and resources?! This is the 2017 annual day to get local leaders inspired, fueled with new ideas and connected to resources!

What the heck are CROs? They are *Community Resilience Organizations*. What do they do? Any range of local activity, aimed at resilience, that leverages volunteer capacity of the emergency responders, with enviro enthusiasts and the social action volunteers. The CRO in Hartford, which has been around for a couple of years, organized a full week of workshops and celebration last August.

ARC – what’s that?! The *new Center for Global Resilience and Security at Norwich University *is creating an *Academic Resilience Collaborative* – a network of academic researchers in our region who are working on resilience issues. Norwich is hosting ARC’s first meeting in combination with the CROs annual Summit – for maximum *cross-exchange and enrichment*.

*Register here:*  https://alumni.norwich.edu/CROsARCsummit

*When registering, check the box “Do you have a waiver code?” On the next page, you can at that point choose “no” to the waiver code.

*Don’t worry – the Summit will wrap up with enough time for you to get to the Climate March in Montpelier! This is a good opportunity to carpool!
If you have any questions, contact me at amanda.blank@greenmtn.edu.

All the best,
Mindy Blank
*Executive Director, Community Resilience Organizations
https://gocros.org