DUWAMISH RIVER COMMUNITY COALITION

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY 🌳 One month left to apply for Rooting Resilience! Help us spread the word about Rooting Resilience, a new funding opportunity for community-based nonprofit organizations! Rooting Resilience will support planning and implementation of small community forestry projects in disadvantaged communities. With our partners at Anthropocene Alliance and Native Americans in Philanthropy, we’ll be providing free technical assistance during both the application process and the grant period. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to rootingresilience@rivernetwork.org for support. Two types of grants are available for projects over a period of 1-3 years: $75,000 “Seedling” awards for smaller projects, and $75,000-$200,000 “Sapling” awards for larger projects. This opportunity is possible thanks to a grant from the Urban & Community Forestry Program of the Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, under the Inflation Reduction Act. For detailed information about Rooting Resilience, how to apply, and more, visit our website. Applications will be open until 11:59pm ET on October 23rd. https://ow.ly/b0eG50TtPrY #FederalFunding #RootingResilience ID 1: Text set against an image of trees in a city reads Rooting Resilience: Community Forestry Funding. Apply now! Applications due by Oct 23. ID 2: Text with the heading Seedling Project Funding. Body text reads, What it’s for: Smaller-scale urban and community forestry projects at a single site or several small sites. Award & duration of funding: $75,000 to support projects with a duration of 1-3 years. ID 3: Text with the heading Sapling Project Funding. Body text reads, What it’s for: Larger-scale urban and community forestry projects. Can also support planning activities, such as completing engineering or designs. Award & duration of funding: $75,000-$200,000 to support projects with a duration of 1-3 years.

As #HispanicHeritageMonth comes to a close, we are thrilled to share a brand new Esri #storymap, sharing the incredible wisdom, cultures, challenges, and heroism of Hispanic and Latinx advocates across the #EnvironmentalJustice movement. Join us in celebrating #HispanicHeritage and #LatinxHeritage all year long; Explore the storymap, “Environmental Justice is Cultural Justice” >> https://lnkd.in/g9aVaRvr Stories and quotes from GreenLatinos, DUWAMISH RIVER COMMUNITY COALITION, and PODER Austin Storymap by Tali Natter, Manuel Salgado, Jama Joseph, and editorial support by Ashley Sullivan, MSc

I hope you can come and join 10 years of leadership of our Duwamish Valley Youth Corps and Environmental Justice event! https://lnkd.in/g_-NBy9v

I’m excited to share that our article, Evaluating an equity-focused approach to assess climate resilience and disaster priorities through a community survey, is now published in PLOS ONE. Highlight: Participatory community-centered research can help demonstrate the disproportionate impacts of climate change on low-income populations, people of color, older adults, people living unhoused, and other groups that have been marginalized The benefits of community engagement through community-based participatory research (CBPR) have long been recognized in the academic space. The co-production of climate knowledge to inform research and practice is increasingly recognized as an effective, though under-studied, method for engaging community expertise and collection of climate information https://lnkd.in/gfcMDnBr Grateful with our partners University of Washington Sam Lovell BJ Cummings Nicole Errett and others.