OVER 90% OF LOCAL ECONOMIC RECOVERY INITIATIVES FAIL.    WILL YOURS?
Here Are Two Reliable, Low-Cost Ways For You & Your Community To Succeed:
• Get certified online to coach stakeholders on creating resilient prosperity; or
• Help others get certified as RE FacilitatorsTM by providing $100 scholarships.
Improve your future by improving everyone's future.TM

EARN THIS MACRO-CREDENTIAL ONLINE AT ANY PACE YOU WANT... A FEW WEEKS, OR MANY MONTHS

ANYONE CAN BE A RENEWAL EXPERT

RE Facilitators worldwide improve economies, societies & natural resources.
They are mayors, consultants, real estate investors, economic developers, architects, engineers, planners & social entrepreneurs.

Their background? Heritage, climate, social justice, disasters, watersheds, brownfields, infrastructure, agriculture, ecosystems, etc.

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IN THIS CRISIS-RIDDEN WORLD, EVERY PLACE NEEDS RECOVERY, REVITALIZATION OR RESILIENCE.

"RE" CAN REVITALIZE YOUR RESUME

PANDEMIC...POVERTY...CLIMATE
Crises are worse & more frequent. Leaders need help. As a certified Revitalization & Resilience Facilitator, you add RE to your name (Jane Doe, RE) so they can find you.
Apply your existing skills to the process of creating resilient prosperity. You'll know how to link crisis recovery, economic revitalization and community resilience.

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ENROLL NOW TO HELP REVITALIZE THE URBAN, RURAL OR NATURAL PLACES YOU LOVE...FOR A LIVING.

3 BENEFITS FOR OUR GRADUATES

1) Becoming a certified Revitalization & Resilience Facilitator (RETM) positions you for both public and private leadership.
2) Tell the world about your work in REVITALIZATION: The Journal of Urban, Rural & Environmental Resilience, which has 7500+ articles in our 5-year archive.
3) Our unique global network can boost your career and business opportunities.

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Struggling places design, plan & build renewal ingredients, but lack the recipe.
RE FacilitatorsTM know that lasting success comes from process, not products.
Enhance your skills to revitalize a current profession, or remake your career.

Attract Funding By Having A Revitalization & Resilience Facilitator On Staff.
It tells grant makers you're more likely to turn their money into success.

RECOVERY & RESILIENCE

BOOST COMMUNITY RESILIENCE

Many factors are driving the need for increased resilience: disease, terrorism, economic volatility, resource depletion, natural disaster, climate change, etc.

Revitalization & Resilience Facilitators help you efficiently and effectively address all of those challenges together.
You can hire a RE Facilitator from outside, or certify your existing staff members.

ECONOMIC GROWTH

BOOST ECONOMIC GROWTH

Almost any kind of economy can produce resilient prosperity: agricultural, industrial, post-industrial, post-catastrophe, tourism, high-tech, diversified, etc. 

A Certified Revitalization & Resilience Facilitator (RETM) helps you achieve healthy economic growth without the usual downsides: displacement, pollution, loss of heritage and greenspace, etc.

ENVIRONMENTAL RENEWAL

BOOST ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Many factors hurt environmental health: industrial contamination, industrial agriculture, invasive species, mining, habitat fragmentation, sprawl, etc.

A Revitalization & Resilience Facilitator (RETM) helps you repurpose, renew and reconnect your natural and built assets to boost health and productivity for all.

Certification is ideal for elected officials.  Most candidates promise revitalization.
Few do so with any credibility.  Fewer still deliver on those promises.

Who Sponsors Revitalization & Resilience Facilitator (RE FacilitatorTM) Training?
Anyone supporting truly effective urban, rural or environmental renewal.

COMMUNITIES

TOWNS, CITIES & COUNTIES

Competent mayors and managers of towns, cities and counties want local redevelopment, reuse and restoration projects to revitalize the entire community.

RE Facilitators help boost ROI: Revitalization On Investment.
In fact, having one on your staff can help attract that public & private investment.
It inspires confidence your future.

FOUNDATIONS, STATES, PROVINCES & NATIONS

FOUNDATIONS, STATES & NATIONS

Foundations, states and nations often help fund community and regional renewal without providing relevant training. They assume local leaders know how to create revitalization and resilience. They're wrong.

Certified Revitalization & Resilience Facilitators (RETM) can double or triple the Revitalization On Investment (ROI) for foundations and government agencies.

CORPORATIONS

CORPORATIONS

Many companies have sustainability, public service and social responsibility programs to improve local communities. But their success rate for achieving measurable results is usually very low.

Certified Revitalization & Resilience Facilitators (RE FacilitatorsTM) can help them efficiently and reliably achieve maximum community benefit. 

Do you want to help create a green, inclusive, fast-growing local economy?
Be a RE Champion to ensure that key institutions have a RE FacilitatorTM on staff.

RECONOMICSTM
What we restore, restores us.   What we revitalize, revitalizes us.

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?

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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—RE Facilitator—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

AFFILIATES

We'll help boost your school's enrollment, FREE.
We'll help boost your organization's membership, FREE.
If you're an expert with knowledge to share, we'll help boost your income.

ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS

UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES

Your planning, architecture, engineering, public policy, business, economics & law graduates can move into public leadership roles more quickly if they possess expertise in recovery, revitalization or resilience.

Affiliate with us by offering our RE Facilitator graduates course credits and we'll refer them to your school.

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TECHNICAL SOCIETIES

SOCIETIES & NON-PROFITS

Does your professional / technical society or non-profit group offer training and/or certification related to the natural, built or socioeconomic environments?
We'll integrate our program with yours.

Your members will be more effective if they can better-apply their skills to creating revitalization or resilience. Affiliate with us!

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PROFESSIONALS

INDIVIDUALS

Are you an expert in some aspect of revitalizing places or making them more resilient?  If so, you can affiliate with us to create your own online training on our site.

You can offer it as a free public service, or you can charge tuition for your courses and receive 80% of the revenue. 

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About 60% of RE Facilitators are AEC professionals or real estate developers.  Why?
Because smart communities specify having a RE Facilitator on staff in their RFPs.
They prefer firms that can be good recovery, revitalization & resilience partners.

THE SHORTER PATH TO URBAN & REGIONAL REGENERATION:

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?
The quick, inexpensive, lasting solution?  Get relevant public & private leaders certified as RE Facilitators.

PANDEMIC ECONOMIC RECOVERY LEADERS:
Our RE Champion program can accelerate your local success.
Learn more about RE Champions here.

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