The CCRE Program

CRF's Coordination and Collaboration in the Resilience Ecosystem grantmaking supports the development of the tools, services and resources that practitioners have identified as essential to scaling the efforts and catalyzing the investment needed to increase resilience to climate-related impacts across the United States.

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CRF Announces 2022 Awardees

CRF is pleased to announce new awards to 18 organizations through its Coordination and Collaboration in the Resilience Ecosystem Program. These grants provided funding to train 23 climate service practitioners who will support efforts to scale up and accelerate equity-centered adaptation planning across the U.S. CRF has provided additional support to our partners at Fernleaf to design and lead the Training, as well as to four organizations that will participate in the Training as subject matter expert lecturers.

Grants were made on a competitive basis to organizations that are interested in learning to utilize the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit’s (CRT) Steps to Resilience to help communities plan and prepare for climate-related impacts proactively.

Trainees will be pre-qualified as practitioners for NOAA’s Climate Smart Communities Initiative (CSCI), which will be administered by the Climate Resilience Fund and is expected to launch in 2023, if funding becomes available (see RFA document for details).

These trainees will also have the opportunity to be included as vetted practitioners listed on the Climate Adaptation Services Registry, a resource for communities that are seeking expertise and assistance with climate resilience planning and action.

 

Download the Practitioner’s Guide

Download the 2022 RFA

The application period is closed for the competition. Download the Request for Applications below for more details on the 2022 competition.

2022 GRANTS LIST

 About the CCRE

CRF is proud to administer the Coordination and Collaboration in the Resilience Ecosystem (CCRE) Program. The CCRE Program has provided targeted grants to qualifying organizations for projects that improve, combine, align, or scale existing resources, services, and tools in climate adaptation and resilience planning and implementation for the benefit of the “Resilience Ecosystem,” an open community of public and private entities that is working to build resilience to climate-related impacts and extreme events across the United States. The CCRE Program is made possible through a unique partnership between CRF and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), with generous support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Since 2017, the program has provided 49 grants totaling nearly $1.9 million for projects contributing to the advancement of the Resilience Ecosystem of climate services providers working to support communities across the nation. These grants have helped create widely applicable tools and resources - databases of effective resilience strategies and qualified adaptation experts, guidance for integrating equitable solutions into adaptation decision making, urban heat island maps, and tools for identifying neighborhoods and communities most at-risk from climate change.

 

CCRE Technical Papers Released

 
 

Incorporating Nature-based Solutions Into Community Climate Adaptation Planning

“Nature-based Solutions” (NbS)—known by such terms as natural infrastructure, natural defenses, ecosystem- based adaptation, or natural and nature-based features—can play an important role in community adaptation and resilience by not only ameliorating climate-related risks but also through enhancing the quality of life for community residents.

Pathak, A., P. Glick, L.J. Hansen, L.E. Hilberg, J. Ritter, and B.A. Stein. 2022. Incorporating Nature-based Solutions into Community Climate Adaptation Planning. Washington, DC: National Wildlife Federation and EcoAdapt.

 

Centering Equity in Climate Resilience Planning and Action

When historically marginalized communities are centered in climate resilience planning, the outcomes are better for all and more durable. By collaborating in building on existing community strengths, and centering community priorities and needs in climate resilience, practitioners can improve the local economy and strengthen people’s ability to participate in the decisions that will directly affect them. Moving beyond technical assistance to adopting an equity centered framework that builds on existing community strengths, knowledge, and assets moves us all forward in achieving more equitable, just and resilient communities.

 

Moving from faith-based to tested adaptation process and approach: How will we know we’re adapting?

This paper focuses on how the field of adaptation can shift from practices built on assumptions to practices built on evidence and deliberation. Doing so requires the systematic collection of information and the use of that information to support analysis and learning around when, where, why, and how to implement adaptation programs and projects, as well as who defines, implements, and benefits from adaptation action.

Hoffman, J.R. and L.J. Hansen. 2022. Moving from faith-based to tested adaptation process and approach: How will we know we’re adapting? Adaptation Insight and EcoAdapt.

 

The Ready-to-Fund Resilience Toolkit

The toolkit is designed as a self-guided resource for local government staff and the technical assistance providers who support them to:

  • More effectively operate within the resilience funding and finance system.

  • Better prepare themselves to receive funding and finance for climate resilience-building.

  • Create equity through resilience funding and finance.With the accelerating pace of climate change and the financing solutions, resilience projects, and professionals it has generated, this guide can help local governments save lives and improve livelihoods by delivering the physical and social infrastructure necessary for climate resilient communities.

American Society of Adaptation Professionals and Climate Resilience Consulting. “Ready-to-Fund Resilience Technical Input Paper.” March 2022.

…and if you missed the March 28th presentations of these four new papers and a new practitioner's guide for climate resilience professionals the video recording is now available here.

I am excited to partner with the Climate Resilience Fund on this unique public-private enterprise aimed at bringing climate services to scale across the country. The CCRE program supports a ‘Resilience Ecosystem’ of practitioners collaborating to build a shared strategy for informing local decision-making that sets priorities and implements adaptation actions to better protect our communities from climate-driven impacts.
— David Herring, NOAA CEE Division Chief
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A Year of Change

Driven by input from the Resilience Ecosystem community of adaptation practitioners, 2021 marked a significant shift for CRF's Coordination and Collaboration in the Resilience Ecosystem grantmaking. CRF has just released its 2021-2022 CCRE Program Summary that details all the changes. Check out our latest report on progress with the program and a look ahead to its work in 2022.

The 2021 Award Winners

Helping communities identify and obtain funding for climate resilience

American Society of Adaptation Professionals (ASAP)- $75,000

ASAP and their partners at Climate Resilience Consulting will create a ready-to-fund Resilience Guidebook by seeking insights from practitioners and advisor networks, reviewing grey and peer-reviewed literature, organizing and validating information to identify themes and gaps, and creating case studies and examples of working strategies. ASAP will work with the US Climate Resilience Team to integrate the new guidance developed into a practitioner and training guide for climate service practitioners.

Integrating principles of diversity, equity and inclusion with climate resilience planning

Antioch University’s Center for Climate Preparedness and Community Resilience-$75,000

The Antioch project team, together with partners in Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities, will review and summarize existing best practices for community engagement in climate adaptation planning that integrates diversity, equity, and inclusion. The team will create a white paper that summarizes the findings and will refine the US Climate Resilience Toolkit’s Steps to Resilience to include these lessons learned. 

Building community understanding of nature-based solutions for resilience

National Wildlife Federation (NWF)- $75,000

NWF and its partners at EcoAdapt will draw on existing literature and the Federation's extensive experience to develop a best practices guide for employing nature-based solutions to reduce climate impacts and risks to communities. The project team will work with Climate Resilience Toolkit staff to advise on where and how nature-based solutions can be more fully integrated into the Steps to Resilience planning framework. 

Supporting communities’ efforts to measure progress of effective and equitable resilience actions

EcoAdapt- $75,000

EcoAdapt and partners at Adaptation/Insight will review and synthesize approaches, indicators, and metrics for evaluating adaptation project and program effectiveness at meeting a range of goals, including social, environmental, economic, and climate hazard risk-reduction. The project will develop an interactive catalog of indicators and metrics to support practitioners in designing context-appropriate adaptation processes. EcoAdapt and partners at Adaptation/Insight will work with the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit staff to develop trainings based on findings.

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Integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into Climate Resilience Planning

Integrating Nature-Based Solutions with Resilience Planning

Defining Characteristics for Finance-Ready Resilience Plans and Projects

Measuring Success: Tracking Performance & Results of Climate Resilience Plans and Projects

 
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Previous Grants

 

GEOS Institute

The Climate Resilience Strategies Database 2020

Headwaters Economics

Neighborhoods at Risk 2020

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American Forests

Greening Solutions for Extreme Heat 2020



 

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