Partnership Network

Build Resilience Through Partnership

Connect with people and organizations across Virginia to share knowledge, strengthen relationships, support practical solutions, and expand the capacity for whole-community resilience across the Commonwealth.

Resilience Takes a Network

No single organization, sector, or community can build resilience alone.

The Resilient Virginia Partnership Network brings together individuals, organizations, institutions, and sector partners who want to stay connected, contribute expertise and resources, collaborate around shared priorities, and help strengthen resilience across Virginia.

Partners engage in different ways depending on their interests and capacity – from staying connected to learning and statewide opportunities, to developing collaborative initiatives, to investing financial, technical, or in-kind resources in resilience work.

Why Partner?

What Partnership Makes Possible

Connect

Build relationships with communities, practitioners, organizations, and partners across sectors and regions.

Learn

Stay engaged through programs, learning opportunities, convenings, resources, and shared information.

Contribute

Share expertise, experiences, resources, case studies, ideas, and solutions that can strengthen resilience work.

Expand Impact

Help build the capacity, tools, relationships, and resources needed to move resilience priorities toward practical action.

Find Your Partnership Fit

Network Partners

For individuals and organizations that want to stay connected to resilience work across Virginia, build knowledge, make connections, and participate in Resilient Virginia programs and opportunities.

Stay Connected. Learn. Participate.

Receive partner communications and updates · Participate in learning and networking opportunities · Connect with others across the resilience network · Share relevant resources, ideas, and experiences · $200 Annually
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Strategic Partners

For mission-aligned organizations interested in working more closely with Resilient Virginia around programs, projects, funding opportunities, technical assistance, or implementation pathways.

Collaborate Around Shared Priorities

Identify opportunities for aligned programs and projects · Collaborate on funding and implementation opportunities · Contribute expertise or capacity to shared resilience priorities · Strengthen connections among communities, organizations, and resources · Tailored Partnership
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Industry Partners

For businesses, corporations, foundations, and other organizations that want to make a sustained financial, technical, or in-kind investment in stronger, more prepared, and adaptable communities.

Invest in Resilience Capacity & Solutions

Support statewide programs, learning, and resources · Contribute technical expertise, services, or solutions · Invest in community and statewide resilience capacity · Connect practical solutions with resilience priorities across Virginia · Custom Investment
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How Partnership Supports the Work

Your Partnership Helps Build Capacity Across Virginia

Partner support helps Resilient Virginia:

Expand Learning

Develop accessible training and professional learning through the Resilience Lab.

Strengthen Connections

Create opportunities for practitioners, communities, organizations, and sectors to connect and learn from one another.

Build Useful Tools

Develop statewide resources, information, and platforms that make resilience work easier to navigate.

Support Practical Action

Increase the capacity to respond to community and partner needs and move resilience priorities toward implementation.

Partner Benefits

Partnership Includes Opportunities For

  • Recognition through Resilient Virginia platforms, communications, publications, and events.
  • Connection with peers and partners across sectors and regions.
  • Participation in programs, trainings, convenings, and special opportunities.
  • Sharing expertise, stories, resources, case studies, and solutions.
  • Program benefits such as registration discounts and select exhibitor or participation opportunities.

Benefits vary by partnership type and opportunity.

Our Partners

Our Partnership Network includes both organizations and individuals working across communities, sectors, and regions throughout Virginia. While organizational partners are featured below, we also recognize the many individual Network Partners whose participation, perspectives, and support help strengthen resilience across the Commonwealth.

We’re grateful to every partner who helps strengthen the network and advance whole-community resilience across the Commonwealth.

Not Sure Which Partnership Fits?

Start With a Conversation

Interested in supporting resilience work across Virginia, but not sure which partnership pathway is the best fit?

Tell us a little about your organization, interests, and how you would like to engage. We can help identify the partnership option that makes the most sense.

Strengthen Resilience With Us

Join a statewide network of people and organizations helping expand knowledge, strengthen connections, build capacity, and advance practical resilience action across Virginia.

Become a Partner

Talk With Us About Your Needs

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Have a resilience challenge, project idea, funding opportunity, or capacity need? Tell us a little about what you’re working on and where you could use support.

Stay in the Loop

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Start a Strategic Partnership Conversation

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Explore an Industry Partnership

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Talk With Us About Partnership

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Trish Porter

Director of Programs & Communications

Trish Porter is the Director of Programs and Communications at Resilient Virginia, where she develops and leads programs focused on resilience, systems thinking, and cross-sector collaboration. She is the co-creator and curriculum lead for the Resilience Foundations Certificate Program and served as lead author of the Regional Resilience Roadmap for Central and Southwest Virginia.

In her role, Trish oversees statewide educational initiatives including the Resiliency Academy, Spotlight On Webinar series, and the biennial Resilient Virginia Conference. She works closely with local governments, nonprofits, academic institutions, and state agencies to support resilience planning, knowledge sharing, and collaborative problem-solving across sectors.

Trish specializes in translating complex resilience and sustainability concepts into practical, accessible learning experiences for local leaders, practitioners, and communities. She holds a Master of Natural Resources with a Graduate Certificate in Global Sustainability from Virginia Tech and brings a multidisciplinary background in sustainability, communications, education, and strategic program development.

Jessica Steelman

Executive Director

Jessica is a systems-level resilience and sustainability practitioner with experience leading nonprofit strategy, cross-sector partnerships, community-centered planning, and resilience implementation across Virginia. She brings a multidisciplinary background in coastal resilience, behavioral health, community engagement, grant strategy, and organizational leadership, with a focus on strengthening the natural, built, economic, and social systems that communities depend on.

Her work centers on connecting people, resources, and ideas across public, private, nonprofit, academic, and regional networks to move resilience priorities from planning into practical action. Through strategic leadership, program design, partnership development, and resource mobilization, she helps communities and organizations build capacity, reduce risk, and advance more resilient and sustainable futures.

Customized Learning Request

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Media Inquiry

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For media inquiries, interviews, speaking requests, organizational background, or information related to whole-community resilience in Virginia, connect with our team.

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Stay connected to the Collaborative Alliance and receive updates on upcoming quarterly forums, emerging resilience issues, shared resources, statewide insights, and opportunities to participate in the network.

Join the Dashboard Pilot

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