The California Resiliency Alliance (CRA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to strengthening California’s capacity to navigate a complex, interconnected risk environment. Founded in 2009, we exist because resilience isn’t built in silos — and neither are the threats California faces.
Across California’s public, private, and nonprofit sectors, professionals responsible for planning and organizational resilience face a common challenge: the information environment is vast, fragmented, and often difficult to interpret. There is no shortage of data — but making sense of it, understanding how risks cascade across interconnected systems, and translating that into better decisions is genuinely hard work.
When planners and decision-makers operate on incomplete or poorly understood information — or on unexamined assumptions — every decision built on that foundation is weaker than it needs to be. In an era of compounding and concurrent threats, that gap has real consequences.
The CRA occupies a deliberate position in California’s resilience ecosystem. We are not a response organization. We are not an alerting authority. We are the connective tissue — a trusted, neutral source that works upstream of crisis, helping professionals see the broader picture before disruption occurs and better understanding it when it does.
Inform: Timely, contextualized analysis of emerging threats and evolving hazards — designed to build understanding, not just pass information along.
Educate: Complex, often siloed risk information translated into insights that planners and decision-makers across all three sectors can actually use.
Strengthen: Practical tools, exercises, and frameworks that build organizational and community preparedness, adaptation, and recovery capacity.
Bridge: Connections across sectors, hazards, and disciplines to surface how risks, systems, and decisions interact in ways that matter.
Founded as an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit
Professionals across public, private, and nonprofit sectors
Spanning public, private, and nonprofit — deliberately connected
California focus with awareness of global dependencies that affect local risk
The CRA maintains a strictly neutral and impartial posture — we do not advocate for specific policies, political positions, or organizational interests. Our value rests on trust, and trust requires consistency and honesty about what we know, what we don’t, and where uncertainty lies.
We focus on the connections between things, not just the things themselves. Looking at second- and third-order effects. Cross-sector interdependencies. The assumptions embedded in planning frameworks that go unexamined until they fail.
From state agencies to local governments, from Fortune 500 companies to community organizations, CRA’s network spans California’s resilience ecosystem. Today, more than 1,200 professionals rely on CRA updates, a number that has grown sixfold since 2016. A 2026 survey showed that a majority or our subscribers forward CRA materials on to colleagues, teams, and their own networks; thereby exponentially increasing the CRA’s reach and impact.
