Resilience Force

What Resilience Force does

Resilience Force is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization (legal name 'Resilience Force', founded 2017, ~15 employees) that organizes, trains, and advocates for a permanent, well-paid workforce of 'resilience workers' who perform year-round climate adaptation, disaster preparation, and post-storm recovery work. The organization's roots trace to the post-Hurricane Katrina migrant labor migration along the U.S. Gulf Coast in 2005 and the 2008 march of 500 trafficked Indian workers to Washington, DC; it formalized as a nonprofit after 2017 as billion-dollar climate disasters multiplied.

Its product surface is non-software: a Resilience Corps program delivered in partnership with municipal governments (launched with the City of New Orleans in 2020-2021 and extended to Sonoma County, California); a portfolio of bilingual (English/Spanish) 'Know Your Rights' educational guides covering immigration retaliation, COVID-19 workplace safety, and general worker rights; the 'A People's Framework for Disaster Response' policy report; and the 'Immigrants Under Siege' emergency aid program. The organization runs no APIs, SDKs, or technology integrations, and the technology field is explicitly recorded as not applicable.

The business model is donation- and grant-funded advocacy rather than commercial revenue. Resilience Force uses a community-led go-to-market motion: direct municipal partnerships (anchor partners are the City of New Orleans and Sonoma County), federal policy advocacy (the Climate Resilience Workforce Act), grassroots organizing among immigrant workers, and high-leverage earned media (The New Yorker feature by Sarah Stillman, Netflix's Immigration Nation) to drive individual donations. In 2022 the organization achieved Department of Labor recognition of resilience workers and a high-road labor standards agreement with major national recovery companies, validating the policy-advocacy leg of the model. No revenue figures, grant totals, or fundraising benchmarks are disclosed.

Name

Resilience Force

Legal name

Resilience Force

Website

https://resilienceforce.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Resilience Force is a U.S. nonprofit that organizes and advocates for a permanent resilience workforce of climate disaster recovery workers, partnering with municipalities such as New Orleans and Sonoma County, and funding operations through donations and grants.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Disaster Recovery Workforce Advocacy

NAICS

Emergency and Other Relief Services (624230), Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Human Rights Organizations (813311)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Climate Resilience & Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) (BPAGABAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Climate Adaptation & Resilience Programs (BPADALAD), Disaster Recovery, Reconstruction & Resilience Programs (BPAGAAAK), Community Resilience, Preparedness Training & Exercises (HLAJAGAL)

Keywords

• Nonprofit advocacy
• Workforce development
• Disaster recovery
• Climate resilience
• Immigrant worker rights

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Fundraising: Resilience Force operates as a nonprofit organization funded primarily through donations. The organization runs donation campaigns such as 'Protect Immigrants under Siege' where contributions go toward emergency food and supplies for immigrant families with no administration or overhead costs.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Resilience Force is a nonprofit advocacy organization that organizes, trains, and advocates for a resilience workforce that performs year-round climate adaptation, preparedness, and post-disaster rebuilding work. It partners with municipal governments to establish permanent Resilience Corps programs, publishes multilingual Know Your Rights educational guides for immigrant and migrant resilience workers, runs emergency aid programs for immigrant families, and advocates for federal legislation (the Climate Resilience Workforce Act) to formalize and fund the workforce.

Product overview

Resilience Force is a nonprofit organization (not a technology product company) focused on building a resilience economy through advocacy, workforce development, and policy reform. The organization offers a portfolio of educational resources and guides for resilience workers, including 'Know Your Rights' materials covering immigration retaliation protection, COVID-19 workplace safety, and general legal rights information—all available in English and Spanish. Additionally, Resilience Force publishes policy research through its 'A People's Framework for Disaster Response' report and operates the Resilience Corps program, a permanent workforce initiative established in partnership with municipal governments. The organization also runs emergency aid programs for immigrant families. The portfolio represents advocacy tools and community resources rather than a traditional software product platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Know Your Rights: Immigration Related Retaliation Guide Educational guide that helps immigrant resilience workers understand what immigrant-related retaliation is and how to protect themselves from employer exploitation based on immigration status; available in English and Spanish in printable document and video formats.
• Know Your Rights: Stay Safe from COVID Guide Safety guide for recovery workers covering their rights to workplace safety during COVID-19 and the steps employers should take to protect workers during the pandemic; available in English and Spanish.
• Know Your Rights & Other Helpful Information Guide Comprehensive legal rights guide for immigrant and U.S.-born resilience workers covering employer relations, getting help for unfair treatment, securing housing, and other essential resources and advice.
• Resilience Force Informational Handout Introduction document explaining what Resilience Force is and providing talking points for community outreach and advocacy; available in English and Spanish.
• A People's Framework for Disaster Response Report Policy framework titled 'Rewriting the Rules of Recovery After Climate Disaster' providing guidance on how disaster response and recovery funding can promote racial and economic equity rather than deepen inequality.
• Immigrants Under Siege Emergency Aid Program Emergency assistance program delivering food supplies and basic necessities to immigrant families, with 100% of donations going directly to emergency food and supplies with no administration or overhead costs.
• Resilience Corps Permanent resilience workforce program established in partnership with municipal governments (City of New Orleans, Sonoma County) providing year-round climate adaptation, preparation, and disaster recovery employment.

Quantifiable outcome

• Department of Labor formally recognized resilience workers at 2022 New Orleans summit and presided over high-road labor standards agreement

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• City of New OrleanscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020The City of New Orleans partnered with Resilience Force to form a permanent Resilience Corps jobs program. This flagship partnership established a model for municipal resilience workforce development, creating year-round employment for disaster response and preparedness. The partnership was announced as part of Resilience Force's ongoing work to formalize and scale the resilience workforce concept.
• Sonoma County, CaliforniacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSonoma County in California embraced resilience work as part of their climate disaster preparedness and recovery efforts, partnering with Resilience Force to implement resilience workforce programs in the region.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ResilienceForce
• Facebookfacebook.com/ResilienceForce
• Instagraminstagram.com/resilienceforce/?hl=en
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/resilience-force

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Investors

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Investments

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