About the Toolkit
This toolkit was compiled in the aftermath of Vermont flooding in 2023 and 2024 for communities, mutual aid groups, local organizations, and municipalities to use in assessing and building resilience to disaster and disruption.
Origin Story
We are community members, organizers, and caretakers. We made this toolkit because we needed it when the waters rose. We hope you choose to use this toolkit as a starting place to develop a Resilience Hub that supports your community in the day-to-day and when acute disaster strikes. You may also find this toolkit useful if you’re located somewhere else with a lot of rain, mountains, and people living in floodplains.
Collaborators
This toolkit is the result of countless people caring enough to show up, again and again, for their communities, then write down what they learned. It is a testament to the expertise that comes from lived experience, and the result of countless minds and hearts collaborating to identify a gap and help fill it.
The people who crafted this tool are community members, organizers, and careworkers; specialists and generalists; writers and builders. So many people and organizations who participated in and supported the making of this work, this collection of expertise and vision. Here are some, but not all, of them:
- Access Ecologies
- Community Resilience Organizations (CROs)
- Community Resilience for the Waterbury Area (CReW)
- Cooperation Vermont
- Lamoille Area Recovery Network (LeARN)
- Land Access and Opportunity Board (LAOB)
- Kingdom United Resilience and Recovery Effort (KURRVE)
- Northeast Kingdom Organizing (NEKO)
- Rose Core Collective
- Rural Vermont
License
Code is licensed under the MIT License. Content is released under Creative Commons licensing to ensure it remains freely available to communities everywhere.