Expectations & Opportunities

Each Community of Practice will identify a Community of Practice Lead who guides the implementation at their site and attends the regular meetings for discussion and learning. The organization or community group (known as the host) will indicate that it understands the goals of the project and fully supports the effort and their designated Lead.  

Resilience hubs will look significantly different from community to community based on history, geography, current programs, and other factors. Important to the success of a resilience hub is the community’s involvement in the process. This builds trust and ownership so that the community who can benefit from the host site’s programs and services and know the site and emergency response can be activated quickly. Host participants in the Community of Practice agree to engage their community to strengthen existing relationships and build new ones.

The Community of Practice will receive preference for designated funding MNIPL is able to secure for supporting this effort. You and your organization will be helping create the template for others to follow in making Minnesota communities more climate resilient. As such, we need the Community of Practice participants to help us tell the story of their process and successes in growing their resilience hubs. This may include photographing (with consent) programs, events, and steps in the process, speaking with media, and documenting your experience in the Community of Practice.