UPDATE 1/17/2025:

Climate Ready Neighborhoods: Cold Weather Response Series

Due to the cold front expected throughout next week, we are transitioning our in-person Community Resilience Fair to a Digital Resource Sharing Series. Instead of gathering in person, we encourage attendees and community members to take action by supporting the Neighborhood PODs and organizations actively responding to the challenges of climate disruption.  

Throughout the series, we’ll roll out a variety of cold weather response resources and aid requests, including ways you can directly support PODs in their efforts to assist neighbors during this critical time.  

This change reflects our commitment to building climate resilience in real time by empowering communities to act when it matters most.  

Call to Action:  
Sign up to join the Climate Ready Neighborhoods program and stay connected! As a member, you’ll receive:  
- Access to our e-newsletter  
- Information about tools and resources  
- Invitations to community workshops  
- Volunteer opportunities  
- Updates on upcoming events  

Let’s come together to strengthen our neighborhoods, adapt to climate challenges, and support one another during this cold front. We are neighbors. We are resilient.  

Join the Network Climate Ready Neighborhoods Interest Form: Climate Ready Neighborhoods - Interest Form

Support the Network: Climate Ready Neighborhoods Resource Partner Form: Climate Ready Neighborhoods: Resource Partner

Stay tuned to our social media postings, @cosasustainability and @theimpactguild, as we plan to take action during the cold weather and see how to best help those in need. 

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Come experience interactive exhibits and hands-on resources to build community resilience and climate readiness together as neighbors. We invite you to explore the 5 Resilience areas: Communications, Buildings & Landscapes, Programs & Services, Power and Operations as you meet resource partners and hear the stories of neighborhoods creating Climate Ready PODS (points of distribution) across San Antonio.

• 5-6:00 Community Resilience Fair Resources open

• 6-7:00 Storytelling Panel & Discussion

• 7:00-8:00 Community Resilience Fair Resources re-open

Through the Community Resilience Fair, you’ll learn about how you can support your community to start a Neighborhood POD as we build climate readiness together before, during and after the storms of life. 

Whether you are a Neighborhood Association, a mutual aid organization, a community-minded business, a House of Worship, a nonprofit or any other type of involved and committed neighbor — This process is built for you to find the right fit to Build Climate Resilience and Increase Equity and Access to Resources alongside Neighbors in your Community. We are neighbors. We are resilient.

Climate Ready Neighborhoods is a program offered in partnership by City of San Antonio’s Office of Sustainability and Impact Guild. Learn more.

As summer heat approaches, join us at San Antonio’s Material Innovation Center to gather resources and materials to prepare to increase your neighborhood resilience and Beat the Heat! 

Come ready to walk and talk as we explore:

• Tour of the Office of Historic Preservation's Material Innovation Center & learn about how to access repurposed materials for your Neighborhood POD projects

• Gather Beat the Heat Resources & Weatherization Kits for your POD

• Participate in pop-up conversations hosted by our Resource Partners — an interactive chance to access resources and share ideas for putting them into practice in neighborhoods across San Antonio!

These bi-monthly meetings are for neighborhood teams and supporting organizations that are a part of the Climate Ready Neighborhoods — a movement of community-based organizations increasing climate resilience in neighborhoods across San Antonio. They are also open to community members interested in learning more about joining the Climate Ready Neighborhoods network.

Climate Ready Neighborhoods is a program offered in partnership by the City of San Antonio’s Office of Sustainability and Impact Guild. Learn more.

People and relationships are the heart of our communities. And building connected community relationships is the driving force for increasing community resilience and climate readiness. But how? This is often much easier said than done.

Join us March 20 for the next Network Meeting of Climate Ready Neighborhoods. Our Theme is: Resilient Communications

We will be sharing the Resilient Communications workbook — a guide to creating a Communications Plan for your community through your Neighborhood POD. 

The Resilient Communications workbook will help your neighborhood team create an accessible, community-led Communications Plan to build relationships and communicate 1) Within your community 2) With the broader Climate Ready Neighborhoods network 3) In everyday, disruption & recovery 4) Prioritizing accessible information.

Bring as many people from your neighborhood team as possible to walk-through creating your communications plan and action steps.

These bi-monthly meetings are for neighborhood teams and supporting organizations that are a part of the Climate Ready Neighborhoods — a movement of community-based organizations increasing climate resilience in neighborhoods across San Antonio. They are also open to community members interested in learning more about joining the Climate Ready Neighborhoods network.

Climate Ready Neighborhoods is a program offered in partnership by the City of San Antonio’s Office of Sustainability and Impact Guild.

Join us October 29 for the next Network Meeting of Climate Ready Neighborhoods. Our Theme is: Sharing our Learning

Climate Ready Neighborhoods is a network of community partners linking climate-resilience information, trainings, resources, and funding through a network of trusted community groups and spaces called Neighborhood PODs. The strength is a connected network learning from one another! This month we will focus on getting to know one another as Neighborhood PODs and supporting Resource Partners. In a discussion oriented workshop, we’ll be sharing stories, challenges and next steps with one another. 

A key part of CRN are the Microgrants which offer an opportunity for us to experiment and share these learnings back with the network. We’ll be rolling out the Storytelling Slide Deck — A template for sharing the results and learnings of microgrants and also the Resource Library, a digital library filled with the ever-growing climate readiness information for Neighborhood PODs to share with the community.

These bi-monthly meetings are for neighborhood teams and supporting organizations that are a part of the Climate Ready Neighborhoods — a movement of community-based organizations increasing climate resilience in neighborhoods across San Antonio. 

Join us August 22 for the next Network Meeting of Climate Ready Neighborhoods. Our Theme is: Household and Community Preparedness

We’ll be joined by the Office of Emergency Management who will provide training and shareresource checklists that will help individual households plan and prepare for extreme heat, power outages, hurricanes, freezes or other disruptions. We’ll be sharing ideas for how your Neighborhood POD can host events, trainings and/or neighborhood outreach to help neighbors prepare.

These bi-monthly meetings are for neighborhood teams and supporting organizations that are a part of the Climate Ready Neighborhoods — a movement of community-based organizations increasing climate resilience in neighborhoods across San Antonio. 

UPDATE: New Location - We will be meeting at Sunset Ridge Collective. Come for the meeting and stay to tour the newly opened Charis Park - a formerly underutilized parking lot that the Church converted into a park for the surrounding community.