Rockefeller Foundation President Wants de Blasio to Make Resilience a Priority MetroFocus
President of the Rockefeller Foundation, Judith Rodin, has some serious suggestions for New York Mayor Bill de Blasio to make the city more resilient and ready to withstand another Superstorm Sandy. The Rockefeller Foundation named New York as one of the first cities to be funded in the new 100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge, a project designed to help cities around the world implement urban resilience plans through technical support and funding for the cities to hire Chief Resilience Officers. Rodin recommends that de Blasio move quickly on this. “He absolutely must appoint a Chief Resilience Officer. Our resources will support that individual, and this is somebody who must have the capacity within City Hall to kind of bring all the silos together, knock the relevant heads that need to get knocked.”Read more on the MetroFocus website:
