Resource Library – Central Coast Climate Collaborative

3C-REN Energy Assurance Services

Tri-County Regional Energy Network (3C-REN)

This program offers tailored energy audits for critical facilities within the tri-county region. These audits are customized to meet the specific needs of each facility, with a focus on resiliency, energy efficiency, and comprehensive load management.

Austin’s Resilience Hub Toolkit: Site Assessment Checklist

City of Austin, Office of Resilience

This toolkit provides guidance on establishing a resilience hub. The site assessment checklist (PDF pg. 12) contains relevant information for the Facility Improvements module.

Best Practices for Meaningful Community Engagement

Groundwork USA

This brief guide offers tips for engaging historically underrepresented populations in visioning and planning, with strategies to strengthen interpersonal connections across your community.

Building a Collaborative Framework

National Policy Consensus Center

This guide presents a five‑step process to establish effective collaborative governance arrangements, including defining purpose and accountability, selecting an entity type, designing governance structures, drafting formal documents, and adapting over time.

Building a Collaborative Governance Framework: A Five Step Process

National Policy Consensus Center

This implementation guide walks through five structured steps, from clarifying group purpose and accountability to choosing an entity type and drafting governance documents, aimed at helping diverse stakeholders form an effective collaborative governance structure.

Cal-Adapt: Local Climate Change Snapshot

California Energy Commission (CEC)

This tool is a starting place if you are looking to get a quick sense of climate impacts in your region. The Snapshot tool provides climate projections for temperature, precipitation, and wildfire.

CalHeatScore

California Department of Public Health (CDPH)

CalHeatScore shows daily rankings of forecasted heat impacts across California ZIP codes based on historical data and weather modeling.

Candidate Resilience Hub Mapping Tool

PSE Healthy Energy

This interactive tool allows users to explore opportunities for resilience hubs in communities throughout California. This interactive map contains information about potential resilience hub building sites (e.g., community centers, libraries, places of worship), local populations (e.g., CalEnviroScreen Score, poverty level, climate vulnerability), and local climate risks (e.g., extreme heat, poor air quality, public safety power shutoffs).

Climate Change & Health Vulnerability Indicators for California (CCHVIs)

California Department of Public Health (CDPH)

This interactive tool allows users to examine health risks at the census-tract level, compare counties to statewide benchmarks, and identify communities with intersecting vulnerabilities.

Collaboration Toolkit: Creating an MOU

Colorado Nonprofit Association

A practical guide on developing memoranda of understanding (MOUs) for nonprofit strategic partnerships, outlining key components such as roles, responsibilities, timelines, risk sharing, and financial arrangements to foster clear and collaborative agreements.

Community Resilience Toolkit: A Workshop Guide for Community Resilience Planning

Bay Localize

This toolkit guides groups in leading workshops to plan for resilience in their communities while decreasing reliance on fossil fuels. It is designed for community groups that would like to get involved in making a difference in their neighborhood, city, or county

Community-Driven Climate Resilience Planning Framework

National Association of Climate Resilience Planners

This framework advocates deepening democratic practices at the local and regional levels; seeks to put forth the principles and practices defining this emergent field; and outlines resources for community-based institutions implementing community-driven planning processes.

From Community Engagement to Ownership Framework

Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN)

This spectrum can be used by local governments and by non-profit organizations or community groups working to facilitate community participation in solutions development and decision-making.

Guidance on Identifying Key Stakeholders

Resilient NJ

This webpage walks users through forming a planning team by identifying and mapping a broad, diverse set of stakeholders. It emphasizes proactive engagement of underrepresented groups, including socially vulnerable communities, and guides planning teams on roles, outreach logistics, and inclusive participation considerations.

Guide to Developing Resilience Hubs

Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN)

This comprehensive guide offers a step‑by‑step framework for developing Resilience Hubs in communities. It covers planning, site selection, power options, community leadership, and equity considerations to support year‑round community services and disaster response, and is relevant to all modules in the Central Coast Community Resilience Hubs Toolkit.

Guide to Equitable Community-Driven Climate Preparedness Planning

Urban Sustainability Director's Network (USDN)

This guide is designed for local governments to embed racial and social equity into climate preparedness strategies, offering a seven‑step process from readiness through monitoring, and emphasizing inclusive community engagement, data-driven decision-making, and addressing root causes of vulnerability.

In the Eye of the Storm: A People’s Guide to Transforming Crisis & Advancing Equity in the Disaster Continuum

NAACP

This resource provides guidance through the process of building equity into the four phases of emergency management: prevention and mitigation, preparedness and resilience building, response and relief, and recovery and redevelopment.

Make a Plan for Disasters and Emergencies: People with Disabilities

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

This webpage offers practical guidance to help individuals with disabilities and their support networks prepare for emergencies, including personalized planning, accessible communication strategies, and tailored supply kits. It emphasizes inclusive preparedness to ensure safety, independence, and resilience during disasters.

MyHazards

California Office of Emergency Services (CalOES)

MyHazards is a tool for the general public to discover hazards in their area (earthquake, flood, fire, and tsunami) and learn steps to reduce personal risk.

Outreach Guide

Community Environmental Council

This outreach guide was developed specifically to support those interested in developing a Community Resilience Hub in creating an outreach plan and includes more information and specific methods on how to implement equitable outreach and engagement.

Regional Resilience Toolkit

EPA

That Toolkit is designed as a structured step‑by‑step guide to facilitate coordinated resilience planning across jurisdictions. The Knowing the Community's Stakeholders section (PDF pg. 25-26) and Appendix A, Step 1: Engage (PDF pg. 108-125) are recommended to review for Module 1 to identify key stakeholders.

Resilient Power Project Toolkit

Clean Energy Group

This toolkit provides practical guidance, tools, and background resources, such as reports, technical guides, and webinars, to support equitable planning and deployment of solar‑plus‑storage (“resilient power”) systems in affordable housing and critical community facilities, especially within underserved and vulnerable communities.

Sample Facility Use Agreement

American Red Cross & City of Fresno

A sample facility use agreement between the American Red Cross and the City of Fresno for the use of a city-owned community center during disasters.

Sample Role Descriptions Worksheet

Public Health Information Institute (PHII)

This workbook provides structured instructions for conducting a stakeholder analysis to support effective communication, engagement, and change management throughout a project. It includes worksheets and templates to identify stakeholders, assess their influence and interest, and tailor communication strategies accordingly.

Shifting Power at the Table: A Virtual Learning Series

Community Economic Mobilization Initiative

Shifting Power at the Table is a virtual Learning Series designed to equip community-based organizations across the state with foundational skills, knowledge, and frameworks to advance racial equity in cross-sector planning processes and shape climate-resilient, equitable workforce and economic development in their regions.

Stakeholder Identification Worksheet

Resilient NJ

This worksheet guides users through the process of identifying and engaging a diverse range of stakeholders, especially socially vulnerable populations, in resilience and adaptation planning. It emphasizes equity, inclusion, and proactive outreach to ensure meaningful participation from underrepresented groups in hazard mitigation efforts.

Toolkit for Memorandums of Understanding

Florida Certification Board

This toolkit provides step‑by‑step guidance on developing clear MOUs, including roles, responsibilities, timelines, compliance, and risk sharing, to support collaboration across agencies. It offers general information, questions to consider, and examples that can be used when developing an MOU.

What Is a Resilience Hub?

Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN)

This video provides an overview of Resilience Hubs, including what resilience is, why it's important, what Resilience Hubs are, and the five foundational areas and three modes of Hubs. The video concludes with information on how to get started.

Community Resilience Hubs Resource Library

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3C-REN Energy Assurance Services

Austin’s Resilience Hub Toolkit: Site Assessment Checklist

Best Practices for Meaningful Community Engagement

Building a Collaborative Framework

Building a Collaborative Governance Framework: A Five Step Process

Cal-Adapt: Local Climate Change Snapshot

CalHeatScore

Candidate Resilience Hub Mapping Tool

Climate Change & Health Vulnerability Indicators for California (CCHVIs)

Collaboration Toolkit: Creating an MOU

Community Resilience Toolkit: A Workshop Guide for Community Resilience Planning

Community-Driven Climate Resilience Planning Framework

From Community Engagement to Ownership Framework

Guidance on Identifying Key Stakeholders

Guide to Developing Resilience Hubs

Guide to Equitable Community-Driven Climate Preparedness Planning

In the Eye of the Storm: A People’s Guide to Transforming Crisis & Advancing Equity in the Disaster Continuum

Make a Plan for Disasters and Emergencies: People with Disabilities

MyHazards

Outreach Guide

Regional Resilience Toolkit

Resilient Power Project Toolkit

Sample Facility Use Agreement

Sample Role Descriptions Worksheet

Shifting Power at the Table: A Virtual Learning Series

Stakeholder Identification Worksheet

Toolkit for Memorandums of Understanding

What Is a Resilience Hub?

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