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March 2021
Call for Abstracts: Brownfields 2021
Don’t miss your opportunity to present at Brownfields 2021! The Call for Ideas closes on Monday, March 8, 2021. The Brownfields Conference will take place in Oklahoma City from September 27-30, 2021. We are particularly encouraging submissions on Brownfields Financing, Tribal Brownfields, Emerging Contaminants (ex. PFAS), Sustainability, Renewable Energy, and Climate Change. Submit a topic idea. We are still reviewing submissions from the first Call for Ideas. If you submitted an idea in the first Call for Ideas between June and August 2020, please do not submit the…
Find out more »Webinar: Tools for Equitable Climate Resilience – Introduction to Community-Led Research and the NEW Community-Led Research Toolkit
The use of community-led research to center communities’ experiences and needs in assessing local climate risks and generating equitable solutions. We will hear real-world community-led research case studies from Paulina Lopez with the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition and Sara Canuel with the Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council. We will also introduce and share River Network’s new Community-Led Research Toolkit. In this toolkit you’ll find best practices from both researcher-led and community-led processes to gather and utilize community-generated data to effectively solve problems impacting communities…
Find out more »Conference: River Rally Scholarship Applications due March 12
Register HERE! The deadline to apply for scholarships to attend River Rally is March 12. River Rally will take place virtually from May 17-20, 2021. Our first Virtual River Rally included over 100 hours of content across six themes and brought together over 500 registrants, presenters, sponsors, and other partners. We look forward to practical content contributed from across the country and peer-to-peer engagement on the issues that matter most to you in May. Read more on Virtual River Rally 2021 on the River…
Find out more »Funding Opportunity: Partners in Place
This funding program of The Funders Network (TFN) and the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN) will focus its next round – round 18 – on racial equity and community collaboration. Deadline is March 19th. See details below. Background: Partners for Places is a successful matching grant program that improves communities by supporting equitable sustainability projects that build partnerships between local government leaders, community groups and place-based foundations in the U.S. and Canada. National funders invest in local projects developed through these partnerships to promote a healthy…
Find out more »Funding Opportunity: Climate Justice for All
Climate Reality seeks to work with 10 organizations or groups interested in implementing a six-month project-based climate initiative between April and October of 2021. The project must engage and benefit frontline communities, historically marginalized groups, or communities of color in the US…
Find out more »April 2021
Funding Opportunity: National Coastal Resilience Fund
NFWF will make investments in planning, design, and restoration of natural and nature-based solutions to help protect coastal communities from the impacts of storms, floods, and other natural hazards and enable them to recover more quickly and enhance habitats for fish and wildlife…
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