Project Guide
This chapter is about documenting your project, sharing what you learned, and helping other communities replicate what you built.
Once a Community Clean Energy Resilience Hub (CCRH) is operational, the project becomes more than a single facility. It becomes a valuable learning opportunity for other communities, organizations, and decision-makers interested in building similar projects.
The Study, Market, Train & Showcase phase focuses on documenting the project, communicating its impact, and sharing lessons learned with broader audiences. This stage helps transform an individual project into a replicable model that can inform future resilience initiatives.
By capturing key insights, developing educational materials, and communicating outcomes clearly, project teams can strengthen community awareness, attract additional partners, and help accelerate the adoption of resilience hub models in other locations.
The tools in this section help project teams document their work, train partners, and showcase the project to communities, policymakers, and other organizations interested in building similar initiatives.
Document the Project
The first step in sharing a resilience hub project is clearly documenting its purpose, design, and outcomes. This documentation helps communicate the value of the project to partners, funders, and other communities.
Project documentation may include:
- The goals and motivations behind the project
- The building improvements and clean energy systems installed
- The community needs the hub is designed to address
- The partnerships and organizations involved in implementation
Clear documentation makes it easier for others to understand how the project was developed and what lessons can be learned from the process.
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Summary Deck
The Summary Deck template helps project teams organize key project information into a clear presentation format that can be shared with partners, funders, and community organizations.
Communicate the Project Vision
Resilience hubs often serve as flagship projects for community resilience and clean energy adoption. Communicating the broader vision behind the project helps build public understanding and support.
Project teams may use branding and storytelling tools to explain:
- The purpose of the resilience hub
- The community benefits it provides
- The clean energy technologies involved
- The long-term vision for resilience in the community
Clear messaging helps the project reach broader audiences and encourages other organizations to explore similar initiatives.
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Brand Deck
The Brand Deck template helps teams present the identity, purpose, and vision of the resilience hub project in a clear and engaging format.
Train Community Partners
Sharing knowledge and building capacity among community partners helps ensure the resilience
hub can be effectively used and supported over time.
Training materials can help partners understand:
- How the facility operates
- What services are available during emergencies
- How community organizations can collaborate with the hub
- How similar projects could be developed in other communities
Training materials are particularly useful for community-based organizations, municipal partners, and local emergency management teams.
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Community Based Organization & CCRH Walkthrough Slides
This presentation template helps guide community organizations through the structure, purpose, and operation of a resilience hub.
Share the Project with the Public
Public communication helps raise awareness of resilience hubs and the role they can play in
strengthening communities.
Project teams may use videos and digital storytelling tools to highlight:
- The facility and its features
- The community needs the project addresses
- Voices from community partners and stakeholders
- Lessons learned during development and implementation
Video content can be particularly effective for explaining complex projects in a clear and engaging way.
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YouTube Video Template
This template helps project teams structure short informational videos that introduce the resilience hub and explain its key features and benefits.
Create a Visual Summary of Your Hub
A well-designed infographic gives communities, partners, and visitors an immediate understanding of what a resilience hub is and what it offers — without requiring a presentation or explanation. It translates physical infrastructure and community services into a single, accessible image.
Project teams can use the infographic to highlight:
- The clean energy systems installed, such as solar panels, battery storage, and EV charging
- Community services available during normal operations and emergencies
- Outdoor features including green roofs, community gardens, shaded areas, and bicycle parking
- Emergency resources such as backup power and food, water, and supply access
Displayed at the hub itself, shared at community events, or included in funding proposals, the infographic makes the project legible to any audience — residents, officials, funders, or future replicators.
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Resilience Hub Infographic
A planning tool and visual template for creating a custom educational poster that maps the key features, services, and community assets of your resilience hub. Includes a feature planning table to organize each element before working with a designer or building the visual in Canva, PowerPoint, or Google Drawings.
Support Replication and Learning
One of the most valuable outcomes of a resilience hub project is the ability to help other
communities learn from the experience.
Project teams can support replication by:
- Sharing project documentation and lessons learned
- Presenting the project at conferences and community events
- Collaborating with municipalities and organizations interested in developing similar hubs
- Contributing resources and tools that help others navigate the process
By sharing knowledge openly, resilience hub projects can become catalysts for broader community resilience and clean energy deployment.
