Deadline: 28-Feb-23
The Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative is accepting applications for funding of climate resilience projects through its Community Grants Program.
The Resilience Collaborative seeks to fund justice-focused, environmental and climate projects that advance community-centered resilience priorities. The Collaborative is particularly interested in supporting frontline communities and tribes or nonprofits and community organizations that serve frontline communities and tribes.
The Resilience Collaborative understands frontline communities as those who are disproportionately impacted by climate change. These are the populations who face historic and current inequities, often experience the earliest and most acute impacts of climate change, and have limited resources and/or capacity to adapt. These groups are often communities of color, Indigenous, low-income, or those whose lives and livelihoods depend on climate-sensitive natural resources.
Goals
- Support frontline-community initiatives and projects to advance community-based climate resilience.
- Enhance the capacity of frontline communities and organizations in their climate resilience and adaptation work.
- Establish connections, relationships, and mutual learning between the Resilience Collaborative and frontline communities.
- Scale up local solutions and lessons learned to decision makers at a state, regional, or federal level or to other resourcing entities.
- Scale local solutions out to similar communities facing similar challenges.
Topics
- Potential project topics include (but are not limited to):
- Capacity building, community outreach, or community education and learning
- Developing a community-centered resilience plan
- Implementing a community-centered resilience strategy or action
- Evaluating/assessing the effectiveness of a resilience (or adaptation) strategy or action
- Building or expanding networks and relationships among communities, NGOs, government agencies, and academic institutions
- Developing Indigenous climate knowledge
- Documenting climate and environmental impacts at the community level in creative ways; examples include storytelling, oral histories, and community mapping
- Expanding community-based methods of scientific understanding of environmental or climate challenges
- Building knowledge of a climate or environmental challenge
- Climate resilience project topics not included in this list are welcome!
Funding Information
- Funding for the Community Grants Program is provided by NOAA and EarthLab at the University of Washington.
- Total funding available is $173,000. They anticipate providing between four to eight awards ranging from $5,000 up to $50,000 for one year. They intend to fund projects at three tiers. Roughly as follows:
- Level 1: $5,000 to $10,000
- Level 2: $15,000 to $30,000
- Level 3: $35,000 to $50,000
- Not all awards will be funded at the highest level or highest dollar amount. If your project is selected, the Resilience Collaborative may negotiate with you a different funding level than your original request.
- Duration: Projects can last between 12 and 15 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofits, community organizations and Tribes in Washington, Idaho and Oregon that serve frontline communities are eligible to apply.
- If you’re interested in partnering with a Resilience Collaborative team member, in your Letter of Interest please state what you envision the role of the Resilience Collaborative team member will be. Please note that grant funding will go to awardees to advance their projects. Grant funds are not meant to support the Collaborative’s role in the project (e.g., Resilience Collaborative staff time or salary support).
Requirements
- Awardees must:
- Be a Non-governmental organization, community-based organization, frontline community organization, or Tribe.
- Be based in Washington, Idaho, or Oregon.
- Note: These funds are intended to support community-centered projects and organizations that may face challenges accessing grant opportunities. For local government agencies or others who are interested in applying, they strongly encourage you to coordinate with the frontline community/organization you’d like to partner with. City, county, and other levels of government are not eligible unless you can clearly articulate a direct partnership with one or more frontline communities.
For more information, visit Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative.