The Palisades Recovery Coalition was born out of necessity. When our community was devastated, residents came together to define what recovery should look like, not just for ourselves, but for generations that follow.

Today, we’re looking beyond the immediate recovery and toward building an organization that can endure. We believe the work taking place in Pacific Palisades has significance far beyond our own community.

Climate-driven disasters are becoming more frequent and more complex. They won’t all be wildfires. Some communities will face floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, landslides, earthquakes, or other events that forever change the places they call home. Each community will have its own challenges, but all will confront the same question: How do we recover in a way that reflects the needs, values, and priorities of the people who live there?

What we’re building is not just a recovery effort. It is a community-informed model for recovery—one shaped by residents, informed by research, strengthened through collaboration, and grounded in the belief that recovery should be written with communities, not for them.

Pacific Palisades is uniquely positioned to do this. We have an extraordinary community, remarkable civic capacity, and partners from across academia, philanthropy, government, and the private sector who have come together around a common purpose. The framework emerging here has the potential to become a roadmap that other communities can adapt when they face their own moment of crisis.

That is why we’re strengthening PRC now. We are building an organization capable not only of helping lead the Palisades through the years ahead, but of preserving what we’ve learned so those lessons can serve communities throughout California—and, ultimately, anywhere people come together to rebuild after disaster.