Why Partners?

Partners are critical to our mission of catalyzing a global urban resilience movement. Diverse sectors, including private corporations, local and international nonprofits, academia, and central governments, all offer services or expertise that can benefit cities as they try to solve some of their most entrenched problems. Cities often don’t know the tools or resources they need, and the market doesn’t always know how to support cities’ integrated resilience building approaches. Partners and investors from across sectors will be essential to bridging the gap between cities’ current capacities and what they need to thrive in the 21st century.

The 100RC Platform of Partners, with more than 100 members, begins to bridge this gap by communicating city demands to the marketplace of both mission- and profit driven service providers, and granting member cities direct access to these powerful collaborators around the world. By connecting cities to a wide range of Platform Partners, we are helping catalyze innovation for resilience-building solutions. This report highlights numerous examples of how 100RC Partners and member cities are working together to develop new solutions to urban resilience challenges, and profiles some of our Partners’ service offerings.