About | Resilient Palisades

REBUILDING A RESILIENT PALISADES

OUR POST-FIRE MISSION

After the January 2025 fires, our focus shifted to meet the immediate needs of our community. Recovery is not just about rebuilding homes. It’s about healing and rebuilding the fabric of our community in ways that reduce risk, improve health, and help people stay.

Resilient Palisades helps residents navigate that process with clear information, real support, and options people can actually use. We connect neighbors to resources, to each other, and to solutions that make sense. We provide the space for survivors to be a part of the recovery work at a larger scale.

Our work spans clean energy, soil recovery, landscape restoration, and community events. But at its core, it’s about helping people move forward and making sure no one has to figure this out alone.

This is community-led recovery. The people living through this are shaping what comes next.

Resilient Palisades was founded in 2019 by a small group of neighbors who believed local action could drive global change. What started as a handful of volunteers has grown into a broad network working toward a safer, cleaner, more resilient future.

The 2025 fires made that work personal. Most of our volunteers lost their homes. Others were displaced for months to a year. We are not working around this recovery. We are living it.

We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on practical, local solutions. Our teams work across wildfire recovery, home electrification, zero waste practices, native habitat restoration, invasive plant removal, sustainable food systems, community education, and climate policy.

Volunteers are at the center of everything we do. They remove invasive plants that increase wildfire risk, help neighbors understand clean energy and available rebates, support native landscaping, and organize events that bring the community back together.

Programs like Gas Free Gardens have already helped local gardeners switch from gas-powered tools to clean electric equipment, serving over 1,000 homes at no cost to the gardener.

After the fires, we moved quickly to support residents and developed Guiding Principles for Rebuilding. The goal is simple: rebuild in ways that reduce risk, improve long-term insurability, and create healthier homes and landscapes.

In May 2025, State Senator Ben Allen named Resilient Palisades the 24th Senate District’s Nonprofit of the Year, recognizing both our long-standing work and the way our community showed up for each other after the fire.

Resilient Palisades is built by neighbors who show up, even while rebuilding their own lives.

Our work continues, and we invite every resident to be part of it.