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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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