Our Story
In 2019, the Waterfront Alliance convened a Resilience Task Force of more than 400 leaders in New York and New Jersey. The goal: to build consensus on a comprehensive set of policies and investments needed to build regional resilience. Rise to Resilience was born out of this effort, to sound an urgent call to reduce the risks we face from the climate crisis and ensure our region is resilient for future generations.
Who We Are
Rise to Resilience is a campaign and coalition spearheaded by the Waterfront Alliance. We are more than 100 organizations representing residents, leaders in business, labor community and justice, volunteer organizations, scientists, environmental advocates, and design professionals collectively calling on our federal, state, and local governments to make building climate resilience an urgent priority.
Steering Committee
- AIA NY
- Climate Jobs NY
- Columbia Climate School, Center for Sustainable Urban Development
- Coney Island Beautification Project
- Environmental Defense Fund
- Future City Inc
- LES Ready!
- New Jersey Future
- New Jersey League of Conservation Voters
- New Jersey VOAD
- New York Building Congress
- Ocean Bay Community Development Corporation
- Rebuild by Design
- Regional Plan Association
- Riverkeeper
- Rockaway Initiative for Sustainability and Equity (RISE)
- Stepping Stones Resources
- The Center For NYC Neighborhoods
- Utility and Transport Contractors Association (UTCANJ)
- WE ACT for Environmental Justice
- Waterfront Alliance
Coalition Partners
- Alice Austen House
- Alice Blank, Architect
- ALIGN
- American Littoral Society, Northeast Chapter
- Anchor Coalition
- Billion Oyster Project
- Bronx River Alliance
- Brooklyn Greenway Initiative
- BRS, Inc.
- Castle Hill Homeowners Association
- Climate Adaptation Partners
- Coalition for Wetlands and Forests
- Coney Islanders for an Oceanside Ferry
- Earth Celebrations
- Earth Matter
- ECOncrete
- Enterprise Community Partners
- Fenex
- Field Operations
- Fifth Avenue Committee
- Flood Mitigation Industry Association
- Friends and Residents of Greater Gowanus
- Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park
- Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES)
- Gowanus Canal Conservancy
- Gowanus Dredgers
- Groundwork Hudson Valley
- Guardians of Flushing Bay
- Hackensack Riverkeeper
- Hudson River Waterfront Conservancy
- Human Impacts Institute
- Hunters Point Parks Conservancy
- Hutchinson River Restoration Project
- Inwood Canoe Club
- LOCUS
- Lower Raritan Watershed Partnership (LRWP)
- Marvel Architects
- Metro Flood Defense
- NAACP NJSC Environmental & Climate Justice Committee
- National Parks Conservation Association, Northeast Region
- National Wildlife Federation
- Natural Areas Conservancy
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- New Jersey Voluntary Organizations Active In Disaster
- New York Building Congress
- New York Disaster Interfaith Services (NYDIS)
- New York League of Conservation Voters
- New York Outrigger
- New York Restoration Project
- New Yorkers for Parks
- Newtown Creek Alliance
- NHS Brooklyn
- NYC Audubon
- NYC H2O
- NYC Soil & Water Conservation District
- One Architecture
- Plus1Vote
- Raritan Riverkeeper
- Red Hook Initiative
- Red Hook Terminals
- Regional Ready Rockaway
- Resilient Power Puerto Rico
- Resilient Red Hook
- RiSC
- Row New York
- Save the Sound
- SCAPE Landscape Architecture
- Shorewalkers
- Sierra Club - Atlantic Chapter
- SImagine: Sense of PLACE
- Smart Growth America
- Solar One
- South Street Seaport Museum
- Storm Surge Working Group
- Stormwater Infrastructure Matters (SWIM) Coalition
- Sunrise NYC
- Surfrider Foundation
- SWA/Balsley
- Temboo
- The General Contractors Association of New York
- The Municipal Art Society of New York
- The Nature Conservancy, New Jersey Chapter
- The Nature Conservancy, New York Chapter
- The Trust for Public Land
- The Wildlife Conservation Society’s New York Aquarium
- TUFF-LES (Tenants United Fighting For the Lower East Side)
- Two Trees
- Waggonner & Ball