Building power, capacity and connections across constituencies

Resiliency Organizing Hubs provide interactive, culturally relevant training in resilience-based organizing. They provide a space for respite and rejuvenation and can serve as a platform to galvanize a just transition.

The concept of Resiliency Organizing Hubs was first introduced at the NC Climate Justice Summit in November, 2014. Simply talking about the concept and offering toolkits was insufficient to get Hubs up and running; grassroots groups were too short on resources and too focused on existing activities to add another commitment. However, in the wake of Hurricane Florence, numerous groups turned to NCCJC as an anchoring organization in the Just Florence Recovery process to request the kind of support Hubs could offer. Starting in 2018, the Collective has been working with several communities to build local climate resilience. The team working to launch and support Hubs is made up of many members of the NCCJC Leadership Team as well as Ajamu Dillahunt from Black Workers for Justice.