The Resilience Accelerator

The Resilience Accelerator is a capacity building program designed to support and assist “Community Champions,” the local and regional decision-makers, leaders, and practitioners in at-risk small to mid-sized communities who want to take proactive action to address the challenges brought by a changing climate.

With support from the Walton Family Foundation and Wells Fargo, the initiative launched in 2022 by inviting applications and providing grants to connect an issue expert, or “knowledge partner,” with a community, based on that community’s unique needs. Those needs have ranged from assistance in developing a climate resilience planning process that would ensure diverse and equitable community engagement to incorporating nature-based solutions and identifying sources of public and private financing for implementing adaptation actions.

This initiative is not currently accepting new participants.

Interested community leaders and climate practitioners are encouraged to explore the opportunities now available to them through the Climate Smart Communities Initiative.

With appreciation of the organizations and partners
that have shared their expertise

  • CDP
  • Headwaters