Help Your Business Community Prepare for Extreme Disruptions
A turnkey small business resilience planning program business organizations can offer to help small businesses protect operations, jobs, and local economies.
When climate-related disruptions affect small businesses, the impacts ripple across the entire local economy—from lost revenue and workforce disruption to weakened downtowns and supply chains.
Climate Disruptions Are Now an Economic Development Issue
Small business leaders are already stretched thin. Few have the time or tools to translate climate information into practical planning.
Business organizations are uniquely positioned to close that gap.
Most Small Businesses Know the Risks—
But Don’t Know Where to Start
The RiskReady™ Program
A facilitated resilience planning program designed specifically for small businesses and mission-driven organizations with limited internal capacity.
Participants move through 6 lenses that transform uncertainty into practical planning and achievable actions.
WHAT YOU GET
Practical Outcomes Businesses Can Use Immediately
A customized resilience action plan
This plan translates climate uncertainty into practical, achievable steps tailored to the business.
Practical planning tools and templates
These resources help stretched-thin small business leaders easily translate climate information into practical planning.
Clear priorities for protecting operations
Businesses identify and focus on the most critical immediate actions to safeguard their day-to-day functions.
Greater confidence navigating disruptions
The facilitated process transforms climate uncertainty into readiness, allowing businesses to respond effectively when climate events occur.
Why Chambers and Business Organizations Offer RiskReady™
Deliver high-value programming for members
Strengthen local economic resilience
Demonstrate leadership on emerging risks
Support businesses before disruptions occur
Offer scalable cohort-based training
Designed to Fit
Your Organization’s Programming
Cohort-based member programs
Workshops at conferences or regional convenings
Virtual or
in-person sessions
Integration with sustainability initiatives
Trusted by Business Organizations
Developed in collaboration with Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility and delivered to dozens of organizations preparing for climate disruption.
Help Your Business Community Prepare for What’s Ahead
RiskReady™ equips businesses with practical resilience strategies while strengthening the stability of the local economy.
