The Waterbury Community Resilience Organizations (CRO) is a new pilot program that makes an effort to bring the topic of community resilience to the forefront. Waterbury’s team, appointed by the Select Board, is working towards breaking down social silos by engaging local government leaders, emergency responders, flood victims, schools, conservation groups and more. The mission of the CRO team is to educate people on resilience and hazards, and to involve them in concrete projects to reduce their personal risk and community risk. Through an annual Day for CROing, the whole community will work together on tangible projects that make places safer and stronger.  Studies have shown that communities with strong social capital and cooperation have significantly lower risk and fewer negative impacts in disaster situations. When neighbors know each other and collaborate effectively, they are better able to care for each other, solve their own problems and tackle any challenge that comes. The Waterbury CRO is seeking this Seed grant in order to publish a leaflet documenting the community's progress since Tropical Storm Irene. The leaflet is one component of a larger community outreach program that will share neighbor’s success stories of hazard mitigation. The leaflet will also share information found in recent floodplain studies that analyze flood impact to the Waterbury community.  This leaflet would be distributed in time for the Tropical Storm Irene 4th Anniversary in late August. The Day for CROing is planned to coincide with the grand opening of the new Waterbury Municipal Complex in January, 2016, a project that came to fruition due to the flooding of Tropical Storm Irene.