Grant Highlights
Adaptation to climate change
The Conservation Biology Institute, in partnership with the world’s leading geographic information systems company, ESRI, developed the “Data Basin” Web service, an open access resource for storing, sharing, comparing, and analyzing scientific data. The grant strengthens a data and analysis platform used by researchers, resource managers, policy makers, and practitioners engaged in climate change adaptation efforts.
Island Press’ titles in print, author programs, and online presence make it a leading nonprofit publishing house of books on environmental issues and a communicator of environmental ideas. One grant enables Island Press and its partner, EcoAdapt, to continue development of their Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange, an online-information tool for climate-change adaptation. The second – an 18-month grant – renews support for the Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange website infrastructure and incentivizes fundraising efforts.
An affiliate of the University of Oregon’s Institute for a Sustainable Environment, the group’s Climate Leadership Initiative helps government, businesses and communities develop comprehensive climate-change preparation strategies. A three-year grant supports local and regional preparation processes and the development of a network of climate-preparation practitioners.
Following a 2009 merger with the Climate Policy Center, the nonprofit has ramped up efforts to help its partners in colleges, universities, community groups, government agencies and other stakeholder organizations develop and implement strategies to reduce carbon emissions. A two-year grant funds a program to foster climate-change adaptation planning and preparedness in the Northeast.
The center brings the knowledge of top research scientists to the natural-resource policy-making arena. A three-year grant funds the expansion of the center’s successful Climate Futures Forums – facilitated programs that inform and empower local decision makers to proactively respond to climate-change impacts, and provide support for the center’s advocacy for climate-wise policy at the state and national levels.
The U.S.-based international relief and development organization, one of 14 affiliates worldwide, creates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger and injustice. A two-year grant allows Oxfam to begin a five-year collaborative project to provide socially vulnerable communities in the American Southeast with access to resources that will increase their resilience to climate change and generate economic opportunities.
The national nonprofit is dedicated to promoting forest stewardship and sustainable forestry practices by public and private forest landowners. A grant funds the second year of the Climate Solutions University, a collaborative educational initiative aimed at developing and implementing forest and water climate-action plans in six rural communities in Idaho and Tennessee.
The organization leverages science and policy to achieve its mission of protecting and restoring America’s rivers for the benefit of people, wildlife and nature. A two-year grant bolsters the nonprofit’s capability to promote sustainable water-resources management programs and proactive climate-change policies at the state and federal level.
To ensure a more sustainable future for the American West, this organization identifies challenging situations, engages concerned stakeholders, and crafts innovative strategies and solutions. This two-year grant renews support for Carpe Diem, an initiative to rethink how water is stored and delivered so that ecosystems are protected, agricultural economies are sustained, and all residents have access to clean water.
With climate change looming, the conservation organization has shifted its focus to the challenges global warming poses to ecosystems and biological diversity. A two-year grant supports work with the U.S. Geological Survey’s new National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center, the Obama administration and others to develop and implement a national climate-change adaptation strategy.