Model and Strategy
The purpose of the Community Driven Climate Innovation Project is to grow local and nationwide capacity for grassroots community members to plan and co-create the solutions needed for continued resiliency by centering the needs of frontline BIPOC communities to inform the design of earth and nature-based climate change solutions. This project will achieve this by scale the following three efforts:
1. Actively build the Facilitator's Network as part of our National Association of Climate Resilience Planners (NACRP) by launching a Vision Power Solutions 12-Month training series for facilitating community-driven climate resilience planning in partnership with the National Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and Facilitating Power.
2. Implement Marin City's People's Plan to mitigate flooding and other climate related risks through a Watershed Steward Training to build out a model “Watershed Landscape"" that will include features such as curb cuts, rain gardens, bioswales, and rainwater catchment.
3. Provide Young Black Climate Leaders with the tools and resources needed to co-create solutions that honor the diversity of our environmental ecosystem, and centers Black liberation.
Impact
Outreach and dissemination to 500,000 national grassroots leaders and facilitators.
Increasing capacity, knowledge and alignment with the CDCRP framework with 30 community members from Marin City, 25 national youth leaders and across 2400 national NAACP chapters.
Ongoing survey and evaluation of grassroots trained facilitators to inform iterative CDCRP content creation and design.
National replication and dissemination of a customized 12-module training series curricula.
Watershed Steward Training and renovated “Model Watershed Landscape.”
Black Climate Organizers Youth Curricula.
Leadership
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Corrine Van Hook-Turner
Director of Climate Innovation
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Pandora Thomas
Senior Fellow, Climate Innovation