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Become The Exclusive Local Sponsor Of RISING PLACES For Your City Or County.
Give everyone in your community FREE access to 12 tools for youth-powered
economic revitalization and disaster resilience. Learn more or enroll now.
Become The Exclusive Local Sponsor Of RISING PLACES For Your City Or County.
Give everyone in your community FREE access to 12 tools for youth-powered
economic revitalization and disaster resilience. Learn more or enroll now.
Certification for Public &
Private Professionals
Professional Certification
RISING PLACES Practitioners (RPP), help communities regenerate. It's especially useful for youth, to help them find their role in improving the future.
ENROLL NOW 
Accreditation for Property Redevelopers & AEC Firms
Developer Accreditation
Redevelopment projects often fail to revitalize places. Accredited real estate developers (for-profit & non-profit) help by boosting local renewal capacity.
COMING MAY 31, 2023 
Accreditation for Cities,
Counties & Regions
Community Accreditation
Using our RISING PLACES ToolsTM, cities, counties & regions (and small countries) boost their renewal capacity & get accredited to attract investment.
COMING MAY 31, 2023 Create A Tide Of Equitable Local Renewal: A Rising Place Should Lift All Lives.
Revitalization makes things better. Resilience makes revitalization last.
Be the Local RISING PLACES Sponsor for as little as $50/year. It takes just 2 minutes.
Revitalization makes things better. Resilience makes revitalization last.
Be the Local RISING PLACES Sponsor for as little as $50/year. It takes just 2 minutes.
THERE ARE 23,000 VILLAGES, TOWNS, CITIES & COUNTIES IN THE USA.
1000 WILL BECOME RISING PLACES. YOU CAN MAKE YOURS ONE OF THEM.
1000 WILL BECOME RISING PLACES. YOU CAN MAKE YOURS ONE OF THEM.
On May 31, 2023, RISING PLACES will burst onto the scene.
RISING PLACES helps public & private funders find the best places to grow resilient, equitable economies. RISING PLACES helps communities attract government grants, employers, redevelopers and residents. With an emphasis on youth, RISING PLACES helps towns, cities & counties enhance quality of life, health, infrastructure, housing & economic opportunity for all.
Grow your business, non-profit or public agency as the
exclusive Local RISING PLACES Sponsor. Learn more.
WHY DO MOST LOCAL RESILIENCE AND REVITALIZATION INITIATIVES FAIL?
1) No Integration: Resilience work must revitalize. Revitalization must be resilient.
2) No Strategic, Ongoing Process: Just static, ignored plans & isolated projects.
RECOVERY & RESILIENCE
Healing While Preventing
Disease, terrorism, economic volatility, resource depletion, natural disaster & climate change all drive demand for revitalization & resilience.
A RPP professional can help you quickly boost your local economic, social and environmental health.
A RPP professional can help you quickly boost your local economic, social and environmental health.
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Regenerative Growth
Grow resilient prosperity in any economy: agricultural, industrial, post-industrial, post-catastrophe, tourism, high-tech, diversified, etc.
RPP leaders help grow economies, avoiding displacement, pollution, loss of heritage & greenspace, etc.
RPP leaders help grow economies, avoiding displacement, pollution, loss of heritage & greenspace, etc.
RESOURCE RENEWAL
Health, Wealth & Happiness
All places have resource depletion, contamination, invasive species, mines, fragmentation, sprawl, etc.
RPP leaders help repurpose, renew & reconnect your natural & built environments to boost health for wildlife, people and economies.
RPP leaders help repurpose, renew & reconnect your natural & built environments to boost health for wildlife, people and economies.
Certification is ideal for elected officials. Most candidates promise revitalization.
Few do so with any credibility. Fewer still deliver on those promises.
All innovative public leaders should be RISING PLACES Practitioners (RPP).
Few do so with any credibility. Fewer still deliver on those promises.
All innovative public leaders should be RISING PLACES Practitioners (RPP).
Why Is RPPTM Certification Growing So Rapidly Worldwide?
Because it empowers institutions. It makes their members, discipline or mission
essential to the success of local recovery, revitalization or resilience efforts.
ADVOCACY GROUPS,
FOUNDATIONS, ETC.
Charitable Institutions
Does your organization support nature, affordable housing, public transit, social justice, better governance, climate, etc?
Whatever your agenda might be, having RPP professionals on your staff will help put it at the heart of revitalization and resilience efforts.
LEARN MORE Whatever your agenda might be, having RPP professionals on your staff will help put it at the heart of revitalization and resilience efforts.
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
City, State, Fed. Agencies
Does your agency advance equitable economic growth, brownfields renewal, infrastructure renovation or disaster recovery? Put your mission at the heart of revitalization and resilience efforts.
The fastest way? Put RPP professionals on your staff.
LEARN MORE The fastest way? Put RPP professionals on your staff.
AEC FIRMS, DEVELOPERS, ETC.
Redevelopers & Planners
Most redevelopers & AEC firms produce good projects & plans. But revitalization and resilience---the outcomes places really want---derive from ongoing programs and reliable processes.
Rise above the competition by putting RPP professionals on your staff.
LEARN MORE Rise above the competition by putting RPP professionals on your staff.
A BETTER WAY FOR YOUR COMPANY TO ACHIEVE ITS ESG GOALS?
Corporate leaders find that supporting integrated revitalization and resilience efforts is the best path their ESG (environmental, social, and governance) goals.
And, the community benefits tend to yield a wealth of positive publicity.
RECONOMICSTM
If your community isn't revitalizing, it's devitalizing.
There's no such thing as healthy statis.
RECONOMICS is a revitalizing framework that repurposes, renews and reconnects your natural, built and socioeconomic assets.
The more a place revitalizes,
the more it CAN revitalize.
RECONOMICS is a reliable renewal process of program, vision, strategy, policies, partnerships and projects.
Reliable production of anything requires a process. Do you have one for revitalization or resilience?
The RECONOMICS Process generates equitable, sustainable, resilient prosperity for all.
It enhances confidence in the local future, which attracts / retains residents, employers and investors.
"Given today's constant, concurrent crises, this new micro-credential—RPP—should be of great
interest to public leaders and private professionals who want to be successful solution providers.
Mastery of legal, financial and technical tools no longer suffices. Strategic process is key." - FEMA
WHO IS GETTING CERTIFIED...AND WHY?
Why do cities with good plans, projects & politicians continue to stagnate & decline? If you were RPP-certified, you could help them fix this ubiquitous problem.
Why do cities with good plans, projects & politicians continue to stagnate & decline? If you were RPP-certified, you could help them fix this ubiquitous problem.
PROFESSIONALS & ENTREPRENEURS
PROS & ENTREPRENEURS
Win program contracts,
not just short-term projects.
Significant community problems are seldom solved with a single project.
RPP certification positions you as an essential long-term solutions partner.
Learn More & Enroll Now not just short-term projects.
Significant community problems are seldom solved with a single project.
RPP certification positions you as an essential long-term solutions partner.
VOLUNTEERS AND ELECTED LEADERS
VOLUNTEERS & POLITICIANS
Serving is good. Succeeding is better.
Do you want to solve environmental, economic & social crises (revitalization)?
Do you want to prepare places for a future with worse crises (resilience)?RPP certification helps with both.
Learn More & Enroll Now Do you want to solve environmental, economic & social crises (revitalization)?
Do you want to prepare places for a future with worse crises (resilience)?RPP certification helps with both.
STUDENTS & TEACHERS
STUDENTS & TEACHERS
Most disciplines can contribute to improving our world in some way.
Faculty who understand the solutions prepare students best for today's crises.
Graduates seeking a satisfying career find it easier with RPP certification.
Learn More & Enroll Now Faculty who understand the solutions prepare students best for today's crises.
Graduates seeking a satisfying career find it easier with RPP certification.
Certification Is For Elected Leaders, And For The Private Leaders Who Help Them Succeed.
Cities prefer redevelopers & consultants who can be real revitalization partners.
But—until now—public RFPs had no way to specify renewal process expertise.
Improve your future by improving everyone's future: Put RPP after your name.
QUICKLY IMPROVE YOUR LOCAL ECONOMIC FUTURE...WITH LESS COST AND RISK.
CITY & COUNTY MAYORS: Tired of your agencies' inefficiency and lack of "big picture" focus due to operational silos?
GOVERNORS: Are your regional initiatives failing because you can't get multiple communities on the same page?
REAL ESTATE DEVELOPERS: Are your redevelopment projects failing due to lack of effective public support?
CITIZENS: Do you want green, equitable economic growth, but get only endless plans and broken promises?
The quick, inexpensive, lasting solution? Get your relevant public & private leaders RPP certified.
The RECONOMICS Process unites your existing plans, players & projects without disruption,
increasing both return on investment and public support, while lowering the risk of failure.
