SCDRP would like to extend a big thank-you to everyone who took our Mentorship Program Interest Survey! We are excited to share that we have 35 individuals signed up to participate in the first cohort of the SCDRP Mentorship Program. Stay tuned for more updates and announcements about this exciting new program!

Interested in participating, but forgot to take our survey? Email us at scdrp@secoora.org!

Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, Spring 2024

This newly released report by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication highlights American beliefs regarding climate change. Key findings include:

• Americans who think global warming is happening outnumber those who think it is not happening by a ratio of about 5 to 1 (70% versus 13%).
• 58% of Americans understand that most scientists think global warming is happening. However, only about one in five (21%) understand how strong the level of consensus among scientists is.
• 56% of Americans think extreme weather poses either a “high” (18%) or “moderate” (38%) risk to their community over the next 10 years.
• 66% of Americans think global warming is affecting weather in the United States, including 36% who think weather is being affected “a lot.”

On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice

Listen to an interview with author Ryan Emmanuel on his new book about "erasure and lack of voice Native American communities in North Carolina have long endured, how colonialism is intertwined with environmental degradation, and ways tribal communities are working to save their homelands."

Listen Here

UN Secretary General Issues Call to Action on Extreme Heat

On July 25, 2024, UN Secretary General António Guterres issued a Call to Action on Extreme Heat worldwide. The Call to Action emphasized the need for global cooperation in 4 key areas: Caring for the vulnerable, Protecting workers, Boosting resilience of economies and societies using data and science, and Limiting temperature rise to 1.5°C by phasing out fossil fuels and scaling up investment in renewable energy.

Read the Call to Action Here

The deadline to request technical assistance for the EPA's Community Change Grants Program is August 16th. Request Technical Assistance here.

BoatUS Foundation

Special Funding Opportunity: Abandoned and Derelict Vessel Removal Grant Program   

With funding from the NOAA Marine Debris Program provided by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the BoatUS Foundation will award up to $7.5 million in grants to remove abandoned and derelict vessels across coastal and marine areas of the United States. 

(LOI due August 12) 

US Forest Service 

Forest Landowner Support 

Forest Landowner Support provides competitive grant opportunities to entities and organizations for delivering technical and financial assistance to private forest landowners—including Tribes, underserved landowners, and smaller-acreage landowners. (Applications for Opportunity 1 due August 21)

USDA Forest Service Inflation Reduction Act

Tribal Access to Emerging Private Markets for Climate Mitigation and Forest Resilience  (Applications close September 30)

US Department of Transportation 

Reconnecting Communities Pilot Grant Program

The RCP Program focuses on improving access to daily needs such as jobs, education, healthcare, food, nature, and recreation, and foster equitable development and restoration, and provide technical assistance to further these goals.  (Applications due September 30) 

Technical Assistance available

US Department of the Interior Indian Affairs 

Tribal Climate Resilience Annual Awards Program (Applications due October 18) 

The Branch of Tribal Climate Resilience (TCR) provides financial support for federally recognized Tribal Nations and authorized Tribal organizations through a competitive funding opportunity to address current and future climate change impacts on Tribal Treaty and Trust resources, economies, regenerative agriculture and food sovereignty, conservation practices, infrastructure, and human health and safety.

NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management

Advancing Coastal Resilience through Nature-Based Solutions: Training Programs for Practitioners (August 22)

This webinar will showcase two programs aimed at expanding the availability of qualified practitioners that can install living shorelines and other nature-based shoreline approaches:



• Ohio’s Nature-based Shoreline Training Program, presented by Emily Kuzmick from Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve, and 
• Florida’s Marine Contractor Living Shoreline Training Course, presented by Armando Ubeda from Florida Sea Grant.