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Become The Exclusive Local Sponsor Of RISING PLACES For Your Community.
Your sponsorship gives everyone in your city or county FREE access to 12
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Become The Exclusive Local Sponsor Of RISING PLACES For Your Community.
Your sponsorship gives everyone in your city or county FREE access to 12
new tools for inclusive, resilient economic growth. Learn more or enroll now.

Accreditation for Cities,
Counties & Regions
Community Accreditation

Accreditation for Property Redevelopers & AEC Firms
Developer Accreditation

Certification for Public &
Private Professionals
Professional Certification
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 $25/year. It takes just 2 minutes.
Revitalization makes things better. Resilience makes revitalization last.
Be the local RISING PLACES Sponsor for as little as $25/year. It takes just 2 minutes.

GROWING YOUR ORGANIZATION WAS NEVER EASIER OR MORE SATISFYING.
On March 31, 2023, RISING PLACES will burst onto the scene.
RISING PLACES helps public & private funders find the best places to grow resilient, equitable economies. And RISING PLACES helps communities attract government grants, employers, redevelopers and residents.
RISING PLACES is the network of neighborhoods, cities and counties where quality of life, health, infrastructure, housing and economic opportunity are being enhanced for all.
Learn How You Can Grow Your Business Or Non-Profit As The Local RISING PLACES Sponsor.
A 2-minute purchase yields 10 years of promotion for you, and a decade of regeneration for your community.
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
A RRFac professional can help you quickly boost your local economic, social and environmental health.
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Regenerative Growth
RRFac leaders help grow economies, avoiding displacement, pollution, loss of heritage & greenspace, etc.
RESOURCE RENEWAL
Health, Wealth & Happiness
RRFac 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 public leaders should be Revitalization & Resilience Facilitators (RRFac).
Few do so with any credibility. Fewer still deliver on those promises.
All public leaders should be Revitalization & Resilience Facilitators (RRFac).
Why Is RRFacTM 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
Whatever your agenda might be, having RRFac professionals on your staff will help put it at the heart of revitalization and resilience efforts.
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
City, State, Fed. Agencies
The fastest way? Put RRFac professionals on your staff.
AEC FIRMS, DEVELOPERS, ETC.
Redevelopers & Planners
Rise above the competition by putting RRFac 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—RRFac—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 RRFac-certified, you could help them fix this ubiquitous problem.
Why do cities with good plans, projects & politicians continue to stagnate & decline? If you were RRFac-certified, you could help them fix this ubiquitous problem.
PROFESSIONALS & ENTREPRENEURS
PROS & ENTREPRENEURS
not just short-term projects.
Significant community problems are seldom solved with a single project.
RRFac certification positions you as an essential long-term solutions partner.
VOLUNTEERS AND ELECTED LEADERS
VOLUNTEERS & POLITICIANS
Do you want to solve environmental, economic & social crises (revitalization)?
Do you want to prepare places for a future with worse crises (resilience)?RRFac certification helps with both.
STUDENTS & TEACHERS
STUDENTS & TEACHERS
Faculty who understand the solutions prepare students best for today's crises.
Graduates seeking a satisfying career find it easier with RRFac 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 RRFac 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 RRFac 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.
