Collaborative Alliance
Connect. Share. Learn From Each Other.
The Collaborative Alliance brings together people working on resilience across Virginia to share what they’re seeing, learn from one another, make useful connections, and think through real challenges together.
A Place to Connect
Resilience work can be complex, and no one organization has all the answers.
The Collaborative Alliance creates a space for people across Virginia to connect with peers, share experiences and resources, hear what others are seeing in their communities and sectors, and get new ideas for challenges they are working through.
You don’t need to take on a new project or commit to monthly meetings. The Collaborative Alliance is designed to be a low-burden, useful way to stay connected to what is happening across Virginia.
What You Can Expect
Know What's Emerging
Know what others are seeing.
Hear about emerging resilience needs, funding and program opportunities, useful resources, promising approaches, and issues coming up across Virginia.
Talk Through CHallenges
Bring a question. Leave with new ideas.
Share a real challenge you’re facing and tap into the experience of people working in other communities, regions, and sectors.
Make Connections
Find people, resources, and examples that can help.
Connect with practitioners who may have relevant experience, expertise, resources, or lessons to share.
Four Conversations a Year
Meaningful Connection Without Another Monthly Meeting
The Collaborative Alliance meets quarterly, giving participants four opportunities each year to reconnect, exchange ideas, and hear what is changing across Virginia. Each gathering is designed to be practical and conversational rather than presentation-heavy.
A typical forum might include:
A quick statewide update
What Resilient Virginia and Collaborative Alliance participants are hearing, seeing, and watching.
A real-world challenge
A chance for participants to share something they are working through and invite ideas, examples, or connections from the group.
Open exchange
A chance to share useful resources, emerging needs, opportunities, lessons learned, or something others should know about.
Does Resilience Touch Your Work?
Join the Conversation!
The Alliance welcomes people working across the many systems that influence community resilience, including local and regional government, state agencies, nonprofits, universities, community organizations, utilities, businesses, infrastructure, planning, economic development, natural resources, emergency management, and related fields.
If your work helps communities prepare, adapt, solve problems, or become stronger over time, your perspective can add value.
A Broader View of What's Happening Across Virginia
Participating in the Collaborative Alliance can help you:
- Stay connected to resilience work beyond your own organization or region.
- Hear how others are approaching similar challenges.
- Discover resources, examples, funding opportunities, and useful tools.
- Find people with experience or expertise relevant to your work.
- Share what your community or sector is experiencing.
- Bring a challenge to the group when an outside perspective would help.
- Build relationships across sectors without joining another time-intensive committee.
Join When It's Useful to You
Participate when the conversation is relevant, bring a challenge when you could use another perspective, share something others may find useful, or simply stay connected to what the network is learning.
Shared Insights From the Network
What We're Hearing Across Virginia
The Collaborative Alliance welcomes people working across the many systems that influence community resilience, including local and regional government, state agencies, nonprofits, universities, community organizations, utilities, businesses, infrastructure, planning, economic development, natural resources, emergency management, and related fields.
You don’t need “resilience” in your title. If your work helps communities prepare, adapt, solve problems, or become stronger over time, your perspective can add value.
Stay Connected to the Collaborative Alliance
Get updates on upcoming quarterly forums, shared resources, emerging resilience issues, and opportunities to connect with practitioners across Virginia.