In 2015 The Rockefeller Foundation partnered with the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD) to launch the National Disaster Resilience Competition (NDRC)
Resilience Academies. Recognizing the salient need to infuse resilience thinking into
HUD’s NDRC, these Academies were established to expose state and local governments
to new approaches for protecting and promoting the long-term well-being and safety
of their communities. A recent independent evaluation of the Academies has provided
instructive insights about what works in efforts to build innovative resilience capacity.