The Alliance for National & Community Resilience

Name

The Alliance for National & Community Resilience

Legal name

Alliance for National & Community Resilience

Website

https://resilientalliance.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Alliance for National & Community Resilience (ANCR) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that develops Community Resilience Benchmarks enabling U.S. municipalities and corporate sponsors to holistically assess disaster and climate resilience across buildings, housing, water, and other community functions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Resilience Assessment & Benchmarking

NAICS

Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development (9251)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPADAEAK

Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus & Resilience Programming

Business & Public Services/International Organizations & Development/International Development & Technical Assistance

SECONDARYBPAGALAC

Affordable Housing & Community Development (Housing, Community Land Trusts)

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Social Enterprises & Impact Organizations

Keywords

• Community resilience benchmarks
• Disaster preparedness tools
• Municipal resilience assessment
• Resilience planning services
• Resilience coalition programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Sponsorship and Donations: ANCR operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that receives financial support from corporate sponsors at various tiers. Sponsorship levels include Platinum (≥$25,000), Gold (≥$10,000), and Silver (≥$5,000). Donations support disaster preparedness through benchmark development and community pilots.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

ANCR develops Community Resilience Benchmarks (CRBs) — a holistic system of benchmarks covering 19 community functions including Buildings, Housing, and Water. The benchmarks, available as downloadable PDFs from the ANCR website, provide communities with objective criteria to assess their resilience to disasters and identify strategies for improvement, developed through a consensus-based process engaging subject matter experts.

Product overview

ANCR offers a suite of Community Resilience Benchmarks (CRB) covering Buildings, Housing, and Water functions. These benchmarks allow cities to evaluate their resilience within and across essential community functions. The core offering consists of downloadable PDF benchmark documents that communities use for self-assessment, supported by a pilot program where ANCR Mentors guide communities through the benchmarking process. ANCR has identified 19 community functions total and is developing benchmarks for each.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Community Resilience Benchmarks® (CRB™): Holistic benchmarks that allow cities to evaluate their resilience across essential community functions including buildings, housing, and water.

Products and services

• CRB Benchmark: Buildings The Buildings Benchmark covers all occupiable structures in a community including new and existing buildings and both residential and commercial, for cities and communities assessing resilience.
• CRB Benchmark: Housing The Housing Benchmark focuses on availability of and access to housing, before, during, and after a disaster, supporting shelter of residents, businesses, education, healthcare, and culture for communities.
• CRB Benchmark: Water The Water Benchmark focuses on water infrastructure essential for delivering potable water, treating wastewater, and managing stormwater, taking a holistic approach to water management in communities.
• Pilot Community Program ANCR seeks communities interested in piloting the Community Resilience Benchmarks; successful applicants receive consultant services from an ANCR Professional and recognition for their resilience achievements.
• ANCR Mentors Program Trained ANCR Mentors (e.g., Jeremy Sigmon for Martinsville and Illya Azaroff / Erik Jester of +LAB Architect PLLC for Oakland Park) guide communities through the benchmarking process.

Quantifiable outcome

• Mitigation provides $4 to $11 of benefit for every $1 invested (per National Institute of Building Sciences)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

22 partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and supportive.

• International Code CouncilcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe International Code Council (ICC) is a founding partner of ANCR, established in 2016. ANCR is a member of the Code Council Family of Solutions. Ryan Colker serves as Executive Director and Vice President of Innovation at ICC.
• U.S. Resiliency Council (USRC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe U.S. Resiliency Council (USRC) is a founding partner of ANCR, established in 2016. Evan Reis serves as Board Chair and Executive Director of USRC.
• Target CorporationmajorGTM or Marketing PartnerTarget is a founding partner and Platinum sponsor of ANCR. Thomas Phillips, Principal-Building Regulatory Strategy at Target, serves as Vice Chair of ANCR's Board.
• DuPontmajorGTM or Marketing PartnerDuPont is a founding partner of ANCR, providing support for the organization's resilience benchmarking initiatives.
• VinZeromajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerVinZero has aligned with ANCR around shared leadership, vision, and expertise to advance community resilience. VinZero is an architecture, engineering, and planning firm focused on digital transformation for sustainable and resilient design.
• BASFsupportiveGTM or Marketing PartnerBASF is a partner of ANCR, supporting the organization's mission to advance community resilience.
• Ductile Iron Pipe Research Association (DIPRA)supportiveGTM or Marketing PartnerDIPRA is a partner of ANCR, contributing to the water infrastructure resilience benchmarking efforts.
• McWanesupportiveGTM or Marketing PartnerMcWane is a partner of ANCR, supporting the water infrastructure resilience benchmarking efforts.
• American Water Works Association (AWWA)supportiveGTM or Marketing PartnerAWC (American Water Works Association) is a partner of ANCR supporting community resilience initiatives.
• Ten Thousand PeoplecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTen Thousand People, founded by Laurian Farrell, is a partner of ANCR. Laurian Farrell serves on ANCR's Board of Directors and focuses on exploring, supporting and enhancing individual capacity to impact the long-term future of the planet's population.
• Institute for Diversity Equity and Inclusion in Emergency Management (I-DIEM)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerI-DIEM is a partner of ANCR. Antoine Richards, Chief of Staff at I-DIEM, serves on ANCR's Board of Directors, bringing expertise in social equity, public health, and emergency management.
• Moonshot MissionssupportiveTechnology or IntegrationAndy Kricun, Managing Director at Moonshot Missions and Senior Fellow at U.S. Water Alliance, co-chaired the Water Benchmark development committee.
• U.S. Water AlliancesupportiveTechnology or IntegrationThe U.S. Water Alliance contributed to the development of the Water Benchmark through expert committee participation.
• U.S. Environmental Protection AgencysupportiveTechnology or IntegrationEPA participated as a subject matter expert in the development of the Water Benchmark for community resilience.
• American Chemistry CouncilsupportiveTechnology or IntegrationAmerican Chemistry Council participated in the Water Benchmark development committee.
• Denver WatersupportiveTechnology or IntegrationDenver Water contributed as a subject matter expert to the Water Benchmark development.
• NYC Department of Environmental ProtectionsupportiveTechnology or IntegrationNew York City Department of Environmental Protection participated in Water Benchmark development.
• North Carolina Department of Environmental QualitysupportiveTechnology or IntegrationNorth Carolina Department of Environmental Quality contributed to Water Benchmark development.
• Codes and Standards InternationalsupportiveTechnology or IntegrationCodes and Standards International participated in the Water Benchmark development committee.
• Pinellas CountysupportiveStrategic or Co-development PartnerHank Hodde, Sustainability & Resilience Coordinator at Pinellas County, serves on ANCR's Board of Directors.
• +LAB Architect PLLCsupportiveImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner+LAB Architect PLLC served as ANCR Mentors for Oakland Park, Florida, guiding the community through the benchmarking process. Illya Azaroff and Erik Jester served as the community's ANCR Mentors.
• Planet SigmonsupportiveImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerJeremy Sigmon of Planet Sigmon served as ANCR Mentor for Martinsville, Virginia, guiding them through the benchmarking process.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP): CDP is a nonprofit disclosure/assessment platform for environmental and climate risk data submitted by cities and corporations. It shares ANCR's nonprofit, sponsor-funded, disclosure-and-benchmark model applied at a different layer (climate vs. whole-community resilience).
• International Code Council: ICC is ANCR's founding partner and the dominant U.S. model-code organization whose codes shape building and community resilience. ICC is broader, but the resilience mission and target audience (U.S. municipalities) overlap heavily with ANCR's.
• U.S. Green Building Council (LEED for Cities): USGBC's LEED for Cities and Communities program rates municipal sustainability and resilience using a comparable certification/benchmark model. It is the closest established incumbent to ANCR's community-level assessment approach, with a much larger installed base.

Emerging players

• Green Building Initiative (Green Globes): Green Building Initiative offers Green Globes, a sustainability certification for buildings and communities, with a comparable consensus-based rating model. Smaller than LEED but directly competes for resilience-related assessment adoption.

Regional players

• Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure: ISI administers Envision, a rating system for sustainable and resilient infrastructure. It overlaps with ANCR's water and buildings benchmarks at the infrastructure layer, addressing similar municipal and engineering audiences.

Direct peers

• Resilient Cities Network: Resilient Cities Network (successor to Rockefeller's 100 Resilient Cities) supports member cities in building resilience strategies. ANCR board member Laurian Farrell previously led knowledge work there, making it the most directly comparable municipal-resilience peer.
• ICLEI USA: ICLEI USA supports local governments on sustainability and climate resilience planning, including community resilience assessment tools. It competes for similar municipal attention and CSR sponsor dollars.
• U.S. Resiliency Council: USRC is ANCR's founding partner and develops building-level resilience rating systems (e.g., USRC Earthquake Building Rating). It addresses resilience at the asset level, while ANCR addresses the whole community — directly comparable frameworks with overlapping stakeholders.

Others

• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Community Resilience Program: NIST publishes the Community Resilience Planning Guide and economic-resilience tools that ANCR explicitly references. It is a public-sector peer whose free outputs compete for adoption with ANCR's benchmarks.
• FEMA Community Resilience Programs: FEMA administers BRIC, HIRA, and other community resilience programs and funds. It is not a peer in the commercial sense but is the dominant public-sector force shaping municipal resilience investment that ANCR's benchmarks must align with.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/ANCResilience
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ancr

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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