Our purpose is to work with other organizations in our community to create and facilitate a Community Resilience Assessment.  We are calling this project “Driving the CAR (Community Action for Resilience)” since we hope to bring our town together in a common endeavor to work on the issues and concerns that face us now and those that will impact us in the future.  As is explained in our project outline, we will work with the Community Resilience Organizations (gocros.org),  to invite all in our town to participate as we craft a proposal for collaborative actions to mitigate and to prepare for the effects of climate change and other events that impact our livelihoods, lifestyles and well-being.  The need for this project became all the more apparent with the pandemic –related lockdown and subsequent losses and changes to town residents.    Ultimately, our core group of 25 individuals hopes to involve everyone in town, from stakeholders and decision-makers to those who feel less enfranchised and unsupported.  With this information, our town as a whole can prepare a roadmap for our future resilience and sustainability.