Neighborhood Resilience Corps is a nonprofit dedicated to training and scaling our future climate workforce to adapt our neighborhoods to be more resilient in the face of a hotter & drier future.

Neighborhood Resilience Corps envisions a future where all urban communities thrive amidst climate change thanks to a well-trained adaptation and resilience workforce that takes action instead of making plans.

Neighborhood Resilience Corps (NRC) started with community conversations. Brad Revare founded the organization while running for local office in Denver, Colorado and knocking on doors to understand what neighbors were concerned about. After hearing about (and experiencing) the lack of green infrastructure in many urban neighborhoods, he decided to form Neighborhood Resilience Corps as both a workforce program and scalable solution to urban climate adaptation and resilience challenges in neighborhoods that don’t often get that kind of investment.

NRC trains young people for future careers in climate change through the design, implementation, and maintenance of climate adaptation projects on community-serving lands in the Denver Metro Area. Young people receive paid training, earn their Seal of Climate Literacy on their High School diploma, and learn how to cut turf, select native plants and trees, and make our lands more waterwise and shaded for the benefit of the community.

Brad Revare, Executive Director and Founder

Brad Revare has over a decade of experience leading innovative youth workforce initiatives, including Colorado’s youth apprenticeship program at CareerWise Colorado and strategy at Colorado Succeeds. Neighborhood Resilience Corps merges his leadership experience in workforce with his passion for community-level climate initiatives. He resides in Denver, CO with his family and can be found chasing after his energetic daughters around the area’s parks and playgrounds.