Asset-Based Community Development

We identify and mobilize a rural community’s strengths and potentials

Hyper-local Focus

We catalyze change and development through well-defined neighborhoods and communities.

Full Circle Prosperity

We work with the community to build whole-system wealth.

Who We Are

Founded in 2015 in the weeks following the catastrophic Valley Fire in Northern California, the SSCRA team continues to fill key roles in the evolution of our community, helping to build local prosperity, solidarity, and resilience. 

What We Do

SSCRA helps small, well-defined communities use their best assets to build and enhance their capacity to partner effectively with government and nonprofit agencies in envisioning and realizing a local and comprehensive vision of resilient, sustainable and regenerative development.  

Projects

SSCRA helps communities of 3-5,000 people build the capacity to self-organize, take best advantage of local assets, and be positioned to access outside resources.

News & Updates

Happy Thanksgiving from SSCRA

Happy Thanksgiving from SSCRA

Welcome and Happy Thanksgiving from your friends on Cobb Mountain Welcome to SSCRA’s inaugural newsletter where we spotlight...
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A Community Volunteer Radio Network That CAN

The wave of megafires since 2018 in northern California has led to new interest in emergency management communications...
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From the Ashes: Mitigation Policy After Wildfire in California

This project investigated how recent wildfire experiences affected housing recovery programming, land use planning, and requirements for household-level...
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Putting Wildfire Plans to Use: Dusting Off That CWPP

With the arrival of the Community Wildfire Defense Grant program, many communities are starting their community wildfire protection plans...
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Fantastic Failure: Cooperative Housing as a Would-be Solution for Wildfire Disaster Recovery

This year our husband and wife nonprofit team is finally getting around to building a home for ourselves....
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Helping Homeowners Clear Brush

SSCRA is helping private residents in the Cobb Area clear defensible space around their homes and along access...
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Testimonial

What people say about us
  • “SSCRA’s clearing program completely transformed our lot! When we bought our house, it hadn’t been maintained for decades. With their help, we were able to make our home completely fire safe.”

    David
    Teacher, Loch Lomond
  • Call Us! ‪(707) 350-9405‬

12312 HWY 175, COBB, CA 954526

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