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COMMUNITY CLIMATE RESILIENCE NETWORK COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

Our Vision

MN Interfaith Power & Light is pursuing a vision of a land of ten thousands of local, responsive, community-led resilience hubs across our state. As part of that work, we hosted the Community Climate Resilience Network, a monthly online gathering that explored aspects of these resilience hubs through presentations by experts and discussion. 

If you are interested in joining the CCRN Community of Practice, we encourage you to check out the recordings of last year's CCRN sessions to get an understanding of the type wof work we're doing. You can learn more about the research behind resilience hubs here.

Our Goal

By creating a Community of Practice, we aim to identify 10 partner hosts and locations that want to experiment with implementing the resilience hub model in their context. Participants will have latitude to implement at the pace and approach that fits their context.

The Community of Practice will meet regularly with each participant reporting on their progress and discussion for shared learning, identifying needed resources, analyzing the factors of success and effective solutions to challenges and obstacles.

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.

How to Apply

Fill out the application below – we hope to invite people into the COP by the end of summer 2026.

Community of Practice Application 2026

Please complete this application to join our CCRN Community of Practice.

Contact Name(Required)
Contact Email(Required)
Organization or Community Address(Required)
(e.g., community of faith, conscience, or spiritual practice, library, non-profit, community center)
If your community is connected by an element other than geography, please describe (e.g. demographic, cultural group, interest group, etc.).
For example, who are they? How many people do you engage with per month? Why do people get involved?
How many people? What is its structure? What is their approach?
(e.g., food programs, community gardens, youth and elderly programs, addiction recovery, health services, education programs, shelter services, etc.)