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Resiliency Studio

An Empowering Space to Build Capacity, Deepen Impact, Innovate and Scale!
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Resiliency Studio is a place where community change agents, entrepreneurs, professionals and creatives work to build capacity, deepen impact, innovate and scale.

Master Classes

Our uniquely crafted boot camp formatted master classes foster acute focus on industry specific strategic and task-over-task work efforts designed to help propel visions, goals, objectives and outcomes forward and scale operations.

Technical Workshops

Our workshops offer deep dive tactical "how to" best practice knowledge on industry specific operational elements, staffing, technology integration, professional development, branding, marketing and resource development.

Digital Learning Forums 

The Resiliency Studio host and shares resources that provide deep insight on organizational and business development information as well as policy, funding and for public engagement opportunities - LAUNCHING FEBRUARY 2026
master classes

What's Included in Our Master Classes? 

Our Master Classes offer deep dive industry specific organizational, business and project development strategies, methodologies and best practices.

Master Classes within our three centers: the Center for Community Excellence, Dream Builders Hub and Vision Builders Hub are bundled in Cohorts for emerging and established entities. Cohorts are scheduled 1 to 3 times per year on a quarterly basis. Enrollment in individual Master Classes is by Resiliency Studio permission only.

Participation includes capacity building work assignments designed to implement actual program and project deliverables.   Participants also receive free access to requisite Technical Workshops hosted in the Resiliency Studio. 

See our full syllabus of Master Classes below:
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Center for Community Excellence
2026 Master Class Syllabus
  • CCE-1: How to Create and Sustain a Compliant Nonprofit 501c3 Tax Exempt Organization
  • CCE-2: The Art of the Ask: Small Grant and Individual Donor Stewardship Strategies
  • CCE-3: How to Implement a Brand Building Outreach and Advocacy Strategy
  • CCE-4: How to Create and Implement a Mission Driven 3 to 5 Year Strategic Plan
  • CCE-5: How to Create and Implement a Fund Development Strategy and Annual Campaign
  • CCE-6: How to Develop Responsive Government and Major Corporate Grant Proposals
  • CCE-7: Board and Executive Leadership Development, Change Management and Succession
Dream Builders
Hub
2026 Master Class Syllabus
  • DBH-1: How to Form and Maintain a Compliant Business Entity
  • DBH-2: How to Implement a Resilient Business Development Strategy 
  • DBH-3: How to Build Your Brand and Target Market Effectively to Scale Your Operations and Opportunities
  • DBH-4: How to Create a Fundable and Sustainable Proof of Concept and Business Plan
  • DBH-5: Capital Formation, Government Grants and Financing and Traditional and Alternative Debt Financing Structuring
  • DBH-6: How to Prepare Compliant Bid Proposals for Government and Corporate Contract Opportunities
  • DBH-7: How to Sustain and Scale Legacy Business Ventures to Propel Generational Wealth
Vision Builders
Hub
2026 Master Class Syllabus
  • VBH-1: Legacy Housing Acquisition: 2 to 20 Units - Analysis, Financing, Design, Renovation and Management 
  • VBH-2: Multi-Family Housing Preservation: Financing, Syndication, Subsidies, Renovation and Management
  • VBH-3: Housing Development 101: From Land Use, Design, Subsidized Financing to Project Management, Construction and Lease Up.
  • VBH-4: Affordable Housing Financing 101: NOFA Responses, Regulations, Deal Structuring and Capital Stacks 
  • VBH-5: Facility Renovation: Design, Preservation, Grant Procurement, Debt Financing, and Project Management
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technical workshops

What's Included in Our Technical Workshops?

Our Technical Workshops are uniquely crafted to provide step-by-step "how to" information to advance participant's working knowledge technology solutions and capacity to scale their productivity.
Google Suite Setup

TW-1: 2 Hour Workshop

  • Setup - Desktop and Devices
  • Apps Utilization Training
  • Communications Management 
  • Email and Document Management 
  • System Security
MS 365 Teams Setup

TW-2: 3 Hour Workshop

  • Setup - Desktop and Devices
  • Apps Utilization Training
  • Communications Management 
  • Email and Document Management 
  • System Security
Website Solutions

TW-3: 3 Hour Workshop

  • Website & Email Selection
  • 5-10 Page Content Creation
  • Social Media, Calendar & Event Linking
  • CRM and Email Marketing Integration
  • eCommerce Solutions and Analytics 
CRM Solutions

TW-4: 3 Hour Workshop

  • Email Marketing Plus AI Integration
  • Multi-platform database management
  • Customer Service Plus AI Integration 
  • Surveying and Customer Engagement
  • Activity Metric Analysis 
Membership Solutions

TW-5: 4 Hour Workshop

  • Membership Platform Selection  
  • Community Building Strategies
  • Content Development
  • Event & Online Meeting Management
  • Engagement Metrics
Accounting Solutions

TW-6: 4 Hour Workshop

  • Accounting Platform Selection
  • Chart of Accounts Setup
  • Record Categorizing & Bookkeeping
  • Bank Account Reconciliation
  • Financial Report Generation

Payroll Solutions

TW-7: 4 Hour Workshop

  • Payroll Platform Selection
  • W2 and W9 Employee Setup 
  • HR Document Management  
  • Payroll Calculations & Payments 
  • Accounting Integration & Tax Reporting
Property
Management Solutions

TW-8: 4 Hour Workshops

  • PM Platform Selection
  • Rents and Operating Budget Pricing
  • Leasing and Tenant Relations
  • Work Order and Capital Improvements 
  • Rental Ordinance Compliance 
Construction
Management Solutions

TW-9: 4 Hour Workshops

  • CM Platform Selection
  • Plan Review, Estimating and Costing
  • Bid Management and Leveling
  • Critical Paths and Schedule of Values 
  • RFIs, Submittals and Change Orders
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knowledge for everyone!

Digital Learning Forums

Our on the road, during a break, weekday and weekend 24/7 Knowledge for Everyone Digital Learning Forums provide a self paced structure to help you stay up to speed on innovations, industry news and best practices.

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          Industry Specific Forums 
Our Digital Learning Forums provide industry specific business development strategy information, on-demand podcasts, webinars, briefings, resource links, funding sources, expert knowledge sharing activations and live networking engagements in partnership with business associations, chambers of commerce, community-based organizations and government agencies.             
     Affordable & Workforce Housing
Topic Highlights: Local, State and Federal Grant and Loan Information, Production and Preservation Ventures and Opportunities, Leasing and Project Management Best Practices and Resident Council Development.
  Creative Industries
Topic Highlights: Film and Television Studio Production, Animation and Podcast Project, Local and State Tax Credits, Film Festival Submissions, Documentary and Short Film Grants and Innovation and Technology, 
Economic Development
Topic Highlights:  Local, State and Federal Grant and Loan Information, RFP Opportunities, Market and Demographic Data, Workforce Development and Commercial, Retail and Industrial Development. 
Legacy Real Estate Investment
Topic Highlights: Market and Opportunity Assessment, Financing and Equity Participation Strategies, Purchase Agreement Structuring, Sustainable Design and Renovation and Property Management Implementation.

Sustainable Design & Construction
Topic Highlights: Greenbuild Trends and Innovations, Bid Opportunity Management, Construction Management, Local Hire and Wage Management, Material and Supply Procurement and Software Integration

Technology & Innovation
 Topic Highlights: Software Solution Trends and Demonstrations, Software Onboarding and Staff Training, AI Application and Integration, Cyber Security Strategies and Technology Methodologies for Business Development

About Resiliency Studio
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The Resiliency Studio’s Ethos is Rooted in Purpose to Catalyze 'The How" of Community & Economic Opportunities Across Niche Industry Ecosystems!

The Resiliency Studio was created by Urban Design Center as a space for management and frontline leadership tasked with building capacity, enhancing impact, catalyzing innovation and scaling operations for their organizations and ventures. The Resiliency Studio provides the requisite tools needed for participants to enhance their industry specific technical expertise to move their entities and ventures to the next level and to stay ahead of the curve!

The Resiliency Studio creates and shares a plethora of best practice instructional webinars, live workshops, podcast, thought leadership work groups, industry reference information and training materials in partnership with industry experts who host each of our forums.

Through peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and collaboration in an open and engaging environment, the Resiliency Studio is fostering acute focus on specific aspects of high growth industries that can directly impact the economic viability and sustainability of local communities.

If you are seeking to make an impact on the communities you serve, the Resiliency Studio provides the information and resources to help drive your strategy.  
Our Three-Pronged Resiliency Blueprint to Catalyze Growth Opportunities Includes:

  • Enhance Capacity: Access to information and insight on how to leverage resources, build and scale closes the opportunity gap.  The Resiliency Studio opens access by sharing "How To" and best practice implementation and sustainability methodologies.


  • Deepen Impact:  Equity and debt capital are the quintessential ingredients that level the playing field for small and BIPOC ventures. Let's capture, create and leverage capital from institutional, government, private capital, philanthropy and investors to deepen both program and project impacts.


  • Innovate and Scale: Let's both "study our crafts" and "cast our buckets where we are" to create formidable entities and operations that can innovate and scale to provide economic security from generation to generation.


Targeted Industries:

  • Nonprofit
  • Small Business 
  • Housing
  • Community Development
  • Construction
  • Creative

Six Building Blocks Thread Our Blueprint Strategy to Foster Resiliency in the Organizations and Entities We Serve

These Building Blocks are the Foundation for Each Forum and Workshop Structure

1. Knowledge and Application

Share industry specific best practice information and procedures to help foster viable, equitable, competitive and innovative venture operations.

2. Vision and Leadership

Share methodologies and resources to plan, craft, hone and drive operational purpose and tenacity within business ventures and industry ecosystems.

3. Team and Management

Foster discerning connectivity by and between requisite talent and opportunity providers and facilitate formidable professional development.

4. Skills and How To Knowledge

Provide best in class executive and staff professional development to build internal capacities to foster sustainable growth and expansion.

5. Best Practices 

Share industry specific best practice methodologies, technologies, resources and innovation to foster operational efficiencies and expansion strategies.

6. Networking and Prospecting

Facilitate requisite cohort connectivity by and between industry ecosystems and foster access to business development opportunities. 
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