City of Dallas and 100 Resilient Cities to Kickoff partnership with “Agenda Setting Workshop”
City of Dallas sent this bulletin at 10/14/2015 10:34 AM CDTOct. 14, 2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Andrew Brenner – 100 Resilient Cities
(646) 612-7236
abrenner@100resilientcities.org
Theresa O’Donnell – Chief Resilience Officer
(214) 670-3309
theresa.odonnell@dallascityhall.com
Robyn Gerard – Sustainable Development and Construction
(214) 671-5090
robyn.gerard@dallascityhall.com
City of Dallas and 100 Resilient Cities to kickoff partnership with “Agenda Setting Workshop”
Dallas – The City of Dallas’ first engagement in their partnership with 100 Resilient Cities – Pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation (100RC), will be held Thursday, Oct. 15 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Scottish Rite Library and Museum, 500 S. Harwood.
Mayor Pro Tem Monica Alonzo will join Chief Resilience Officer Theresa O’Donnell, 100RC’s COO Andrew Salkin, and 100RC Associate Director of City Relationships Olivia Stinson for a press conference at 10:30 a.m.
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 workshop will begin the process of identifying priorities, actions, and metrics, and the strategy will be developed in the next year.
“The workshop will kick-start a holistic, action-oriented process to create a Resilience Strategy for the City of Dallas,” said City of Dallas Chief Resilience Officer Theresa O’Donnell. “The goal of the workshop is to begin build partnerships, alliances, and identifying financing mechanisms. The resilience work for the City of Dallas will pay particular attention to understanding the impacts of chronic shocks and long term stressors on the City’s poor and vulnerable populations.”
“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.
Each city in the 100RC network receives four types of support:
• Financial and logistical guidance for establishing an innovative new position in city government, a Chief Resilience Officer, who will lead the city’s resilience efforts;
• Technical support for development of a robust Resilience Strategy;
• Access to solutions, service providers, and partners from the private, public, academic, and NGO sectors who can help them develop and implement their resilience strategies; and
• Membership in a global network of member cities who can learn from and help each other.
100 Resilient Cities - Pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation (100RC) helps cities around the world become more resilient to social, economic, and physical challenges that are a growing part of the 21st century. 100RC provides this assistance through: funding for a Chief Resilience Officer in each city who will lead the resilience efforts; resources for drafting a Resilience Strategy; access to private sector, public sector, academic, and NGO resilience tools; and membership in a global network of peer cities to share best practices and challenges.
For more information, visit: http://www.100resilientcities.org/about-us.
