SCDRP Newsletter: March 6, 2025

1. The Partnership Project is a movement infrastructure organization with the goal of creating a stronger, more connected, and more equitable environmental movement. Through their work as a fiscal sponsor, they are focused on supporting environmental campaigns and partners working on some of the most important issues of our time: addressing the climate crisis, accelerating the transition to clean energy, reducing the use of fossil fuels, and amplifying the work of environmental justice.
2. The VoLo Foundation is a private family organization that exists to accelerate change and global impact by supporting science-based climate solutions, enhancing education, and improving health. 
3. Arsht-Rock: The Atlantic Council’s Climate Resilience Center (formerly the Arsht-Rock Resilience Center) creates and delivers transformative solutions that improve lives, protect livelihoods, and expand opportunity for communities on the front lines of the climate crisis. 
4. Foundation For The Carolinas serves as a catalyst for philanthropic activity in their 13-county region and is a driver for major civic efforts. 
5. Kresge Foundation: Kresge Foundation’s Environment Program helps cities combat and adapt to climate change while advancing racial and economic justice. The Foundation advocates that cities address climate change mitigation and adaptation concurrently.
6. The Center for Disaster Philanthropy is the only full-time resource dedicated to helping donors maximize their impact through expert resources, community-driven grantmaking and philanthropic consulting services.
7. ClimateWorks is a global platform for philanthropy to innovate and scale high-impact climate solutions that benefit people and the planet. They deliver global programs and services that equip philanthropy with the knowledge, networks, and solutions to drive climate progress for a more sustainable and equitable future.
8. The Laughing Gull Foundation envisions a more equitable, just, and sustainable world. Founded in 2012 as a progressive family foundation rooted in the South and committed to justice, Laughing Gull Foundation ensures frontline leaders have the funding, resources, and support needed to build power and make change. Based in Durham, NC, with a team of dedicated, diverse, and caring people, they advance their mission through grantmaking, funder organizing, and financial investing practices.
9. The Climate Resilience Fund works with public and private partners across the United States to advance the inclusive and adaptive approaches that are needed to build climate resilience for people, the communities in which they live, and the natural systems on which we all rely. 
10. Climate Smart Communities Initiative (CSCI) facilitates the development of climate resilience plans and projects across the country by offering a competitive grant making program, a Registry of Adaptation Practitioners, training in best practices, and more. The initiative is committed to assisting the communities that are facing the most significant challenges, and advancing nature based solutions. 
11. The Miami Foundation is focused on building a stronger Miami forever. The Miami Disaster Resilience Fund is a unified and proactive approach that will support nonprofits working to advance disaster preparedness, provide grants for relief efforts to frontline grassroots organizations in advance of a disaster and invest in long-term equitable recovery.
12. The Hive Fund for Climate & Gender Justice is a specialized intermediary that raises funds and makes grants to groups that are building power to accelerate an equitable transition to cleaner, renewable energy and phase out dirty energy in the US South, where pollution levels and clean energy opportunities are high and funding levels are low.

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The Economics: National Ocean Watch (ENOW) dataset recently added data on the ocean economy for all five U.S. territories. Information on employment, establishments, wages paid, and gross domestic product is provided in a variety of formats to fit your needs. There are two ways to access the data: through the ENOW Explorer or by direct download using the quick report tool. 

Coastal County Snapshots: This online tool, with recently added data sets and functionality, provides an easy way to better understand county resilience in terms of flood hazards, critical facilities, jobs, businesses, and more. Users choose their county and topic of interest and the tool does the rest, automatically combining complex data sets to create county-specific insights. The resulting charts and graphics are easy to understand and are used to show community leaders and the public where the county is most vulnerable.

Workshops, Trainings, and Events

Calls for Information, Comments, Surveys, Applications:

SASMI Project Identification Survey This questionnaire is a tool to identify and gather information about potential Salt Marsh conservation, protection, and restoration projects along the Georgia Coast.

Inland Ocean Ambassadors Training Program: The Inland Ocean Ambassador Training Program is a 5-session, 5-week online program offered twice per year that prepares individuals to take action to protect our ocean and waterways.

Applications due March 12

Sentinel Landscapes Partnership: Accepting applications 

The Sentinel Landscapes Partnership is a coalition of federal agencies, state and local governments, and non-governmental organizations that work with willing landowners and land managers to advance sustainable land use practices around military installations and ranges.The partnership aligns the objectives of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Defense (DOD), Department of the Interior (DOI), and Federal Emergency Management Agency to strengthen military readiness, conserve natural resources, bolster agricultural and forestry economies, increase public access to outdoor recreation, and enhance resilience to future environmental conditions.  Sentinel landscape designation provides a myriad of benefits for local partnerships, including support to hire a sentinel landscape coordinator and offering priority consideration for certain federal funding opportunities. 

Apply by April 9, 2025

RCC National Environment Leadership Fellowship (NELF) - Rachel Carson Council

All RCC Fellows receive a $2,000 stipend distributed throughout the academic year.

Deadline to Apply is April 15, 2025.

Join FEMA’s Youth Preparedness Council (YPC)

The intent of the Youth Preparedness Council is to bring together young leaders who have an interest in making a difference in their communities and in advancing disaster preparedness efforts on a national and local level. Youth Preparedness Council members complete disaster preparedness projects that help improve the disaster resiliency of the nation. The application cycle will be announced shortly.

The University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) is seeking applicants and internship partners for the new Professional Science Master (PSM) degree as part of UVI’s Marine and Environmental Science program (MMES).

NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) is gathering input from users of tidal datums and coastal tools, like flood forecasting models and inundation maps, on the upcoming National Tidal Datum Epoch (NTDE) update. This quick, 3-minute survey will help NOAA understand how these changes may affect coastal practitioners and guide the creation of resources to better support communities facing coastal flooding and other challenges. Your feedback will be valuable in shaping tools to meet the needs of those working along our coasts.

The Southeast Regional Climate Center (SERCC) requests feedback on "Expanded Caribbean Section of Southeast Quarterly Impacts and Outlook Report"

The American Society of Adaptation Professionals invites its members and organizations with experience in environmental justice and community advocacy to sign-up to provide technical assistance for communities impacted the most via the EPA Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Centers (“TCTAC”) Program.

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