The Resilience Canopy

Thriving, not just surviving

People in communities have the wisdom, creativity, and strength to go beyond merely surviving each new crisis.

With the right skills, connections, resources and support, they’re empowered to thrive through every challenge life presents – economic downturns,
population changes and natural disasters.

Our Program

Community challenges need community solutions

Climate change, social isolation, economic uncertainty - these are not future threats, they’re affecting people
now. The most vulnerable people are most often hit hardest.
Traditional approaches tell communities what they need to prepare and survive crisis. The Resilience Canopy flips this.
We  use the Six-Step Future Ready Communities engagement model  which empowers  communities to establish a shared vision of what they want for a thriving future.

Breaking the dependence cycle

Our ultimate goal? Changing the entire system from response driven, to resilience driven. Where agencies work alongside communities to support their priorities for long-term challenge readiness, instead of reacting after each disaster.

The Resilience Canopy will be delivered side by side with communities and
partners, growing to reach a target of 2000 practitioners and 500
resilient communities.

  • Activate

    Using our unique six-step engagement approach, our trained Canopy Collective
    practitioners support their communities to explore strategies and
    actions to overcome their identified challenges – be it fires, floods or
    social disruptions.

  • Train

    We are up-skilling and mentoring an
    Australia-wide network of community resilience practitioners to lead
    their communities on a resilience building journey.

  • Connect

    With their priorities in hand, we help connect communities with enabling
    partners wishing to invest in communities through cash and in-kind
    support – amplifying their efforts and outcomes.

  • Share

    We provide an online platform for the growing network of capable,
    connected and more resilient Canopy Communities, Practitioners and
    Supporters to share their insights and access resources.

Upskill - let locals lead

It only takes a few
people to learn a skill for a whole community to benefit. We up-skill
local people in community resilience building so that communities can
explore their own priorities and actions

The Canopy Collective is Australia’s largest network of trained community resilience practitioners – supporting each other with wisdom.