The National Association of Climate Resilience Planners (NACRP) Community-Driven Planning Fund's round two recipients have been announced: Del Paso Heights Growers’ Alliance, Gullah Geechee Cultural Community Trust, Movement Generation, Portland Harbor Community Coalition, and UCI Community Resilience!
The Community-Driven Planning Fund from the NACRP, a core program of People’s Climate Innovation Center (Climate Innovation), was launched in March 2024 and is dedicated to supporting community-driven planning processes governed by community-driven planners, organizers, and facilitators. These grants are intended to seed projects and resource planners, organizers, and facilitators accountable to frontline communities to advance a community-driven planning process—round two awarded five grants to member-led projects.
Round Two Recipients:
Del Paso Heights Growers’ Alliance, Sacramento, CA
This life-changing funding alleviates the stress of working and needing to source other income. DPHGA has been operating on volunteer hours for most of the year, with some financial coverage available through grant management. These funds create the capacity and focus necessary to grow this organization. I look forward to applying these funds to new trainings to sharpen my leadership, and a backlog of needs that will improve my workflow.
Gullah Geechee Cultural Community Trust, Nassau County, Florida
Two-Hundred Voices: Reclaiming Gullah/Geechee Places, Spaces, and Narratives in Nassau County, Florida,” is a spatial reparations project. The project recaptures and restores the cultural community's spiritual connection to historic places and sacred spaces--such as forgotten burial grounds currently threatened by erasure due to development--by elevating the voices and narratives of elders and collecting and archiving their memories of their ancestors. Funding supports the design of a cloud-based cultural genealogy project that digitally reconnects descendants to their ancestors who established communities inside local tenant labor camps. Funding also supports the identification and site assessment for a cultural resilience nature retreat, the launch of an inaugural cohort of Gullah/Geechee Land Stewardship Fellows, and the production of Nassau County's first Gullah/Geechee Community Day supplies, and space rental.
Movement Generation, Berkley, California
Funds from this grant will support the visioning and broader design process of the Justice & Ecology Center including deepening opportunities for co-governance and shared planning. Additionally, funds will be used to secure universal design consultation as well as to gather input from allied organizations, land sites, and strategic individuals. The center aims to teach, nurture, and inspire regenerative practices across the Bay and beyond. The center’s core work seeks to expand the ways that we're addressing compounding crises by teaching traditional ecological knowledge and the direct modeling of conservation hydrology, ecological horticulture, and restoration ecology. Additionally, the center serves as a Bay Area hub for reconnecting with earth and ancestry.
Portland Harbor Community Coalition, Portland, Oregon
Portland Harbor Community Coalition's grant award will support the Cumulative Health Impacts Resilience Plan (CHIRP) Work Group’s planning process - a process that grew out of PHCC’s responsiveness to community concerns and priorities into becoming a community vision for how to address intergenerational health impacts in a superfund and active industrial energy hub of Portland.
UCI Community Resilience, Irvine, California
Based at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), Community Resilience is a unit within the UCI Office of Sustainability. Community Resilience brings together teams of faculty, students, staff, and community collaborators to address environmental, health, and social justice challenges by fostering community-driven and equity-focused solutions.
About the Fund:
In response to member needs, the NACRP launched the Community-Driven Planning Fund in March 2024 to support community-driven planning processes governed by community-driven planners, organizers, and facilitators. NACRP members can submit proposals for up to $30,000 to resource communities and/or facilitators accountable to frontline communities and advance a community-driven planning process.
Climate Innovation coordinates and administers the Fund and 5 NACRP members, in their role as Fund Advisors, govern the Fund grantee selection process.
About the NACRP:
The National Association of Climate Resilience Planners (NACRP), a core program of People’s Climate Innovation Center (Climate Innovation), is a national network of community-driven planning facilitators, grassroots organizers, and multi-sector partners that fosters effective community-driven racial and climate justice solutions through training, peer learning, referrals, and capacity-building.
For more information about the Community-Driven Planning Fund and how to become a NACRP member, visit our website here.
