Spokane Community Resilience Collaborative

Spokane Community Resilience Collaborative

The Spokane Community Resilience Collaborative (SCRC) is a group of Spokane-area organizations committed to creating a thriving and resilient community. The group is comprised of representatives of organizations in diverse fields such as healthcare, education, government, and nonprofits who use their shared knowledge and expertise to support each other's work and jointly pursue new work to support a Spokane regional community that is prepared for and adaptable to change. Facilitated by the Gonzaga Institute for Climate, Water, and the Environment (Climate Institute), the SCRC primarily focuses on resilience to extreme heat and wildfire events and all their interconnected challenges. 

Goals

  1. Develop city-wide heat and smoke action plans for Spokane
  2. Develop a building-level resilience planning tool for Spokane organizations and businesses to create their own smoke and heat readiness plans
  3. Create a public resource guide that provides general information for households regarding extreme heat and wildfire smoke. 

The public resource guide will be made available in late 2025, and more information on the city and building level plans can be accessed here. 

Member Organizations (as of January 2025)

  • Gonzaga Institute for Climate, Water, and the Environment
  • City of Spokane
  • 350 Spokane
  • Avista
  • The Carl Maxey Center
  • CHAS
  • Cool Spokane
  • Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners
  • Spokane Regional Health District
  • Spokane Regional Clean Air Agency
  • WA Office of Equity
  • Yoyot Sp'q'n'i 

Interested in Joining Us?

The logos of all Spokane Community Resilience Collaborative member organizations surrounding the Climate Institute sunburst logoMembership is open to organizations that recognize the threat of climate change and have a demonstrated commitment to advancing community resilience in the Spokane region. Each organization has only one designated voting representative with a proxy; additional members of an organization may attend as non-voting members.

Organizations interested in joining the group can submit a statement of interest (email to jester@gonzaga.edu), and applications will be reviewed and decided on by the consensus of the group according to SCRC rules of procedure.