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How It Works

From Sign-Up to Action Plan in 15 Minutes

1
Minute 1

Enter your city or ZIP code

RIA auto-populates your hazard data from FEMA, NOAA, USGS, and CDC SVI.

2
Minutes 2-5

Read your hazard risk profile

Plain-language summaries for flood, heat, wildfire, drought, air quality, and vulnerability.

3
Minutes 5-10

Choose your tailored action plan

1,000+ curated actions selected for your departments, budget range, and timeline.

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Minutes 10-15

Download, share, and build your funding ready project narrative

Grant-ready project descriptions.

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Features

Fastest, Lowest Cost Solution for Resilience Activation

In minutes, RIA gives you everything you need to move from planning to action, all in one place.

Risk

Interactive Hazard Maps

Your community's complete hazard profile drawn from the same federal datasets FEMA reviewers use: NFHL, NOAA HeatRisk, USGS, and CDC SVI.

  • 6 hazards covered
  • Social vulnerability included
  • Plain-language summaries
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Action

Tailored Resilience Plans

Actions automatically matched to your risk profile, departments, budget range, and timeline. Includes costs, co-benefits, and responsible teams.

  • 1,000+ curated actions
  • Budget-matched
  • Department assignments
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Measure

Progress Dashboard

Track what's in progress, what's completed, and what needs attention next. Export to PDF for council briefings or share with partners.

  • Implementation tracking
  • Council-ready PDF exports
  • Stakeholder sharing
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Implementation

GovTech-powered Assistance

Generate grant-ready materials, governance plans, and stakeholder mapping strategies in minutes.

  • Community engagement
  • Funding pathways
  • Responsive support
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Why Use RIA Now

Built for the Reality of Local Government

You're managing multiple mandates with a small team and a tight budget. Climate risks aren't waiting. Neither should your solutions. RIA was built specifically for communities like yours.

One Workflow. Every Mandate Covered.

Hazard mitigation updates, heat action plans, resilience strategies, grant applications: RIA unifies every requirement into a single, guided process.

From Strategy to Shovel-Ready.

The gap between "we have a plan" and "we have a project" is where most communities get stuck. RIA closes that gap automatically.

Be the City That's Ready When the Call Comes.

When a disaster is declared, communities with predefined risk assessments and resilience projects underway suffer fewer losses and capture recovery funds first.

Data Your Council Can Act On.

RIA converts verified federal hazard data into plain-language risk summaries and prioritized action lists. No GIS expertise required.

Comprehensive Coverage

All Climate Hazards, One Platform

RIA integrates multiple risk dimensions to surface compound risks that siloed approaches often miss. RIA analyses all six dimensions simultaneously, creating simple maps for policy makers and communities.

Wildfire
Flooding
Severe Storms
Extreme Heat
Drought
Social Vulnerability
6 dimensions analyzed simultaneously
The Difference

Old Way vs. The RIA Way

See how RIA transforms the climate resilience planning process

Traditional Consulting
The RIA Way
$50,000-$150,000 in consultant fees
Starting from $0 with a free entry point. $850 Early Bird Pricing
6-18 months to complete a plan
Complete plan ready in 15 minutes
Generic recommendations that sit unused
Tailored to your community's actual risk profile
Requires GIS expertise and technical staff
Plain English, browser-based. No technical expertise required
Plan delivered as a PDF with no follow-through
Ongoing tracking, export, and implementation tools
Wait for the next disaster to apply for grants
Grant-ready project descriptions generated instantly
Built For You

Who RIA Is Built For

City Manager / Planner

"I need a climate strategy I can present to council and a grant list I can hand to my finance director."

Emergency Manager

"I need to update my Hazard Mitigation Plan without burning out my staff or blowing my budget."

Sustainability / Resilience Officer

"I have climate data. I need to turn it into a plan my departments will actually execute."

Pricing

Simple, Transparent Pricing for Climate Resilience Activation

Generate a customized resilience strategy for your community in minutes.

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Annual Subscription

Predictable annual cost designed for government budget cycles.

No Long-Term Contracts

Annual billing. Start when you're ready. Renew because it works.

Purchase Order Friendly

Flexible payment including government purchase orders.

Small Purchase Threshold

All plans priced to avoid complex procurement for most municipalities.

Community Stories

What Professionals Say About Working with CRC

"Your report is fantastic. For someone with no experience in this sector, I found the report to be readable and easily understood."

California State Official

"Thank you so much for working with us! We wouldn't have got to where we are without you."

Community-based Organization Leader

"Nobody facilitates a meeting or manages a far-flung team like Joyce. Her ability to produce results is among the top of her field."

National Nonprofit Executive

"My commissioner and I were so impressed with your facilitation skills and your persistence to equity."

City Chief Resilience Officer

"Best in class. Creative, innovative, and always generating practical solutions. Delivers on time, on budget, and with a level of clarity and confidence that makes complex work actionable."

US Housing and Urban Development appointee

"The tools and guidance directly connected to the real challenges our members face and helped them make the fiscal case for resilience."

Urban Sustainability Directors Network executive

"The deliverables were highly professional, consistent, and immediately usable enabling communities to take the next steps without delay."

EPA Disaster Resilient Communities leader

"The outstanding quality of work delivered, even within limited time, made CRC a trusted extension of our team and a leader in resilience expertise."

Global Insurance Climate & Resilience Hub executive

"We've never worked with a consultant who delivers things so fast, so completely, and so effectively. They helped us move to the next levels."

State chief resilience officer

"All communities supported were able to move forward with grant applications a strong testament to the approach and support provided."

EPA Community Change Equitable Resilience advisor

"A true collaborative partner, bringing both expertise and a spirit of partnership that made even complex challenges feel manageable."

Enterprise Community Partners housing resilience lead

"Razor-sharp insights and a rare ability to see across the entire resilience field, bringing clarity exactly where it's needed most."

Bloomberg Associates leader

"Your report is fantastic. For someone with no experience in this sector, I found the report to be readable and easily understood."

California State Official

"Thank you so much for working with us! We wouldn't have got to where we are without you."

Community-based Organization Leader

"Nobody facilitates a meeting or manages a far-flung team like Joyce. Her ability to produce results is among the top of her field."

National Nonprofit Executive

"My commissioner and I were so impressed with your facilitation skills and your persistence to equity."

City Chief Resilience Officer

"Best in class. Creative, innovative, and always generating practical solutions. Delivers on time, on budget, and with a level of clarity and confidence that makes complex work actionable."

US Housing and Urban Development appointee

"The tools and guidance directly connected to the real challenges our members face and helped them make the fiscal case for resilience."

Urban Sustainability Directors Network executive

"The deliverables were highly professional, consistent, and immediately usable enabling communities to take the next steps without delay."

EPA Disaster Resilient Communities leader

"The outstanding quality of work delivered, even within limited time, made CRC a trusted extension of our team and a leader in resilience expertise."

Global Insurance Climate & Resilience Hub executive

"We've never worked with a consultant who delivers things so fast, so completely, and so effectively. They helped us move to the next levels."

State chief resilience officer

"All communities supported were able to move forward with grant applications a strong testament to the approach and support provided."

EPA Community Change Equitable Resilience advisor

"A true collaborative partner, bringing both expertise and a spirit of partnership that made even complex challenges feel manageable."

Enterprise Community Partners housing resilience lead

"Razor-sharp insights and a rare ability to see across the entire resilience field, bringing clarity exactly where it's needed most."

Bloomberg Associates leader
About

The Team Behind RIA

Built by people who've done this work

Joyce Coffee, Founder of RIA Resilience

Joyce Coffee

Founder & President, Climate Resilience Consulting

"I've spent more than two decades in rooms with city managers, emergency directors, and mayors who want desperately to protect their communities but don't have six months or $150,000 to spend on a plan. RIA is what I wish I could have handed every one of them on day one."

National resilience trailblazer · Architect of Chicago's first municipal climate adaptation strategy in 2007 · Author, The Resilience Advantage · MIT City Planning.

Robert Macnee, Director of RIA Resilience

Robert Macnee, PhD

Deputy Director, Climate Resilience Consulting

"RIA came directly out of our work with communities. We saw how difficult it was to navigate data, funding, and priorities in one place, so we built a tool that brings it together and helps teams act with confidence."

Climate and community health expert · Climate resilience strategist · Supported $70M+ in public funding and evaluated $100M+ in projects · Co-author of The Resilience Advantage

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