Services
Resilient Virginia works with communities, organizations, agencies, and partners to clarify resilience needs, strengthen capacity, develop practical solutions, and move ideas and projects toward implementation.
Resilience work does not always begin with a fully developed project or a clear path forward. You may be trying to understand a challenge, develop a new initiative, coordinate multiple partners, engage a community, or move an existing plan toward action.
Resilient Virginia provides flexible, customized support based on where you are now and what you need to move forward.
Our services can be used independently or combined into a tailored scope of work.
Technical Assistance
Tailored guidance, tools, research, and capacity-building support to help communities and organizations better understand resilience challenges, navigate resources, and identify practical pathways forward.
Program Development
Support for shaping early ideas, priorities, and funding opportunities into clear, fundable, and sustainable programs with defined goals, activities, partners, outcomes, and implementation pathways.
Project Management
Coordination and management support that helps resilience projects stay aligned, on schedule, documented, and focused on deliverables and results.
Community Engagement
Design and facilitation of engagement processes that elevate community knowledge and lived experience, strengthen participation, and translate input into planning, funding, and action.
Built for Collaborative Resilience Work
We work with organizations across sectors and scales, including:
ยท Local Governments ยท Planning District Commissions ยท
ยท State Agencies ยท Nonprofits ยท Universities ยท
ยท Community Organizations ยท Regional Partnerships ยท Utilities ยท
ยท Foundations ยท Businesses ยท
Our role may range from short-term targeted assistance to ongoing support for a complex, multi-partner initiative.
Many Resilience Efforts Cross Service Areas
A project might begin with technical assistance to better understand a challenge, use community engagement to identify local priorities, require program development to shape the response, and then need project management to move implementation forward.
Resilient Virginia can provide one targeted service or combine multiple areas of support into a scope tailored to the project.
Explore examples of how Resilient Virginia and its partners are applying technical assistance, program development, project management, community engagement, and collaborative approaches across Virginia.
You do not need to arrive with a completed scope of work.
If you have a resilience challenge, emerging idea, funding opportunity, or project that needs additional capacity, start with a conversation. We can help determine what kind of support may be most useful and whether Resilient Virginia is the right fit.
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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 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.
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