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Empowering Entities to Upskill, Sustain & Scale!

What's Inside

The Resiliency Studio is an online portal designed to Harness the Efficacy of Equitable, Efficient and Effective Economic Ecosystems. Our platform offers industry specific organizational and professional development “how to” methodologies for entities seeking to upskill their team and leadership and effectively sustain operations and scale. It also serves to provide results-oriented pathways to connect talent with opportunities and business offerings with business needs. The Resiliency Studio has partnered with a plethora of industry experts to provide a wealth of best practice instructional webinars, live courses, work groups, industry forums and reference information as well as peer-to-peer knowledge sharing. It is designed for management and frontline team members striving to enhance their industry specific technical expertise to move their entities and ventures to the next level and to stay ahead of the curve.
manifesto from CEO Sherri Franklin
WE ARE THE HOW

targeted Economic empowerment industries

The Resiliency Studio’s Ethos Is Rooted In Purpose To Catalyze 'The How" of Economic Opportunities Across 6 Niche Industry Ecosystems That Empower Community Based Entrepreneurial Ventures And Asset Ownership
If you are seeking to make an impact on the communities you serve, the Resiliency Studio provides the tools, information and resource to help drive your strategy.

Catalyzing Growth Opportunities!

THESE INDUSTRY ELEMENTS ARE OUR CENTER OF FOCUS Construction Management | Culinary Ventures Management | Creative Industry Ventures Management | Hemp & Cannabis Social Enterprises | Nonprofit Oganizational and Fund Development | Real Estate Acquisition & Development
Enhancing Capacities
Having access to information and insight on how to leverage resources closes the opportunity gap. The Resiliency Studio opens access and shares the "How To".
Capitalizing Ownership
Equity and debt capital are the quintessential ingredients that level the playing field. We're going to build it, find it and leverage it....TOGETHER!
Structuring Legacies
Let's both study our crafts and cast our buckets where we are to create formidable entities and operations that will scale from generation to generation.

THE RESILIENCY BLUEPRINT

6 Building Blocks Thread Our Strategy to Foster the Unlikely Business of Economic Resiliency within the Targeted Niche Industries:

  • Knowledge and Application: Share industry specific best practice information and procedures to help foster viable, equitable and competitive operations.
  • Vision and Leadership: Share methodologies and resources to plan, craft, hone and drive operational purpose and tenacity within business ventures and within industry ecosystems.
  • Team and Management: Foster discerning connectivity by and between requisite talent and opportunity providers.
  • Skills and Methodologies: Provide best in class executive and staff development to build internal capacities to foster sustainable growth and expansion.
  • Networking and Prospecting: Facilitate relevant connectivity by and between industry cohorts and foster access to business development opportunities.
  • Sustain and Scale: Share industry specific best practice methodologies, technologies and innovation to foster operational efficiencies and expansion strategies.

NICHE INDUSTRY UPSKILLING, TRAINING AND COACHING

An acute focus on specific aspects of high growth industries that can directly impact the economic viability and sustainability of local communities and impactfully contribute to wealth generation.
Construction Management
Focus: Bid structuring, software integration, financing, subcontractor onboarding, sustainable equipment and material utilization, local hire, site coordination, log management and critical path development.
Culinary Ventures Management
Focus: Restaurant design and management systems, food manufacturing and distribution, prepared food services, meal and product delivery and farm to table, local trade ecosystem development and capitalization.
Creative Industry Venture Management
Focus: Theatre and studio productions, event staging, pre & post task integration, costuming, tech and innovation integration, product development, branding, market distribution, facility management and capitalization.
Hemp & Cannabis Social Enterprises
Focus: Business and partnership formation, licensing and legal compliance, standard operating procedures, facility buildout, brand development, distribution strategies and competitive market penetration.
Nonprofit Organizational and Fund Development
Focus: Strategic planning, brand development, annual and capital campaign management, proposal development, program development, budgeting and fund accounting, technology integration and reporting
Real Estate Acquisition & Development
Focus: Deal structure, design, entitlement, capital deck and ownership entities for various types of housing, commercial, mixed use, special use, public facility, industrial and P3 development projects.

Professional Development Programs

The STEM Urbanist is a professional development advancement portal that interconnects the fundamentals of science, technology, engineering and mathematics with in depth industry specific "How To" workforce related best practice methodologies, skill development and procedure methodology training as well as c-suite coaching.
Created for those striving to be a “Perpetual Achievement of the Impossible” - James Baldwin - Launching January 18th!

Custom Company Directed Trainings

Custom Company Directed Training schedules for employees, committees, boards and volunteers can include learning options from a list courses, workshops and private coaching sessions offered directly through our STEM Urbanist program and/or from the list of courses and degree programs by our affiliate partners. Testing and Certificates of Completion can be included as well.

Industry Invitational Professional Development

The Resiliency Studio platform can host Industry Invitational Professional Development programs offered by trade and business associations, government and nonprofit agencies and foundations. Courses can be selected from STEM Urbanist and affiliate partner selections or be specialty designed. Testing and Certificates of Completion can be included as well.

Executive Member Accelerator Hubs

A Space to Make it Happen!: Joint Venture Development Projects, Design-Build Team Prospecting, Joint Venture Construction Bids and Syndicated Acquisitions of Land and Renovation Properties
Designed to Help Effectively Move Projects from the Conceptual Stage to Completion Launching January 18th!
A Space to Discover, Create and Own the Future!: Structuring for Design Innovative, Sustainable Solutions, Farm and Manufacturing Ownership, Equitable Equity Investment and Distribution Systems
Created to Promote Social Equity Inclusion in Green Industries Launching January 18th!
A Space to Build Change!: Fundable Programs and Services, Effectual Movements and Initiatives, Community Plan and Public Policy Leadership, Social Enterprise and Community Development
Empowering Organizations to be the Quintessential Opportunity Launching April 2021!
A Space to Shape and Codify Ideas!: Proof of Concept Vetting, Operations Plans, Partnership Assessment, Equity vs Debt Analysis, Investor Pitch Decks, Brand/Market Strategies and Team Building.
Acute Focus on Sustainable and Scalable Venture Structuring Launching April 2021!

Business Builder Networks Launching April 2021

B2B Ecosystem Portal
Our publicly accessible online Resiliency Studio B2B Ecosystem directory will promote social equity, local, fair, green and small business trade by and between ventures operating within our targeted industries and foster competitive best value pricing. The portal will serve as a catalyst for enterprise brand development, a marketing strategist and a purveyor of industry specific best practice methodologies, product specification information and innovation.
Pro Opps Network
The UDC Procurement Opportunities (Pro Opps) Network will provide technological infrastructure to position small businesses as competitive bidders and vendors for corporate, government, organizational and B2B procurement opportunities. Pro Opps will track opportunities to identify potential collaborative and bulk rate undertakings that can achieve savings through shared operational capacities for large projects and higher quantity multi-product procurement demands.
BECOME A MEMBER!
The Membership Platform Launches January 18, 2021
JOIN US! ACCESS MEMBERSHIP IS FREE!

Opportunity Talent Connector

The Solution to Brain Drain - Launching April '21
MEMBERSHIP TYPES

ACCESS

Professional Development Center
Includes access to our STEM Urbanist Workshops, Custom Company Directed Trainings, Industry Invitational Professional Development Courses, featured apprenticeships and continuing education courses, Opportunity Talent Connector portal, Speaker Forums, Events Calendar, Cluster Industry Resource Library and our B2B Ecosystem listings.

OPPORTUNITY

Talent Connector
Includes Access Membership benefits plus unlimited Talent Connector postings, ability to host employer directed training, applicant testing, local hiring events and opportunity eblast plus posting access to our B2B Ecosystem portal.

EXECUTIVE

Rainmaker Workspace
Includes Access, Opportunity and Enterprise member benefits plus industry in-residence briefings and deep dive salons and forums as well as exclusive access to our four Accelerator Hubs - Vision Builders, Dream Builders, The Center for Community Excellence and Think & Grow Lab - tailored to promote operational sustainability, growth and scaling.

ENTERPRISE

Business Builder Networks
Includes Access and Opportunity member benefits plus connectivity to our Pro Opps network and briefings created to help entrepreneurs promote, expand and scale ventures within our targeted economic empowerment industries.
ACCESS
No Member Fee Must Register Yearly
Option to join fee events, courses and to upgrade.
EXECUTIVE
$468 Per Year or $39 Per Month
Option to join fee events and courses for 25% discount
OPPORTUNITY
$75 per Year Plus Posting Fee
Option to join fee events and courses for 10% discount.
ENTERPRISE
$228 Per Year or $19 Per Month
Option to join fee events and courses for 15% discount.

Contact Us

Please feel free to call us, send an email or complete our form if you have any questions about our services. We look forward to hearing from you!
1 213 447 9264
resiliency@urbandesigncenter.com

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