Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW) is a program in the early stages of formation that aims to mobilize and capacitate citizen volunteers to engage in community-based resilience preparation and extreme weather response. CREW’s mission is to build equitable local climate resilience through grassroots engagement – to help equip families and communities across New England with the resources and capacity to prepare for and respond to climate changes equitably, sustainably, and collaboratively. CREW is currently being incubated by the Better Future Project in Cambridge, MA, an organization that has existed for 7 years, and that engages volunteers across Massachusetts in grassroots organizing to advocate for a safe climate future.