CRC worked with Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania and Mantua Worldwide to create a greenfield resilience hub design that will provide vital resources to improve community health, such as emergency shelter, youth programs, and green job workshops. These initiatives address Mantua’s high vulnerability to climate risks while fostering community engagement, public health, and environmental justice and include a phased budgeting process, starting with a resilience pod. Design lead and image credit: ONE Architecture

CRC is working with faith leaders to repurpose preexisting spaces into hubs of community resilience, considering faith-centric priorities and long-standing community buildings and institutions and supporting faith advocacy for resilience hubs.

CRC collaborated with Bethlehem Lutheran Church, St. Louis, MO to develop resilience functions on the church’s existing land. This included a resilience hub design integrated with a community garden and an urban farm. This initiative provides emergency shelter as well as giving residents in a ‘food desert’ access to fresh food and educational programs.

In 2024, CRC led over 20 resilience hub design and budget projects with community based organizations around the nation. In January 2025, we invited several partners to work with us to compile the many lessons from this work into a design compendium that describes why communities need Resilience Hubs, what the are for, who they serve, what they need, and how they can be created. This material includes 7 detailed case studies. We hope you find the Resilience Hub Planning & Design Compendium useful in your work.