Ensuring communities have the fundamental knowledge, capacity, and technical support needed to address climate challenges underpins much of the Center’s work. By working with communities to secure the key building blocks of climate resilience, we are helping to address specific and systemic barriers of today while also working toward larger, transformational change. The Center is achieving this work through four key objectives:

• Inclusive and Culturally Responsive Decision-Making. The Center develops, pilots, and shares processes, resources and data for inclusive, equitable, and culturally responsive decision-making.

• Capacity Building for Resilience Actions. The Center builds capacity with community-based organizations and small, under-resourced local governments to effectively pursue climate resilience actions.

• Networks for Resilience. The Center supports peer-to-peer learning and resilience networks, coordination, and collaboration.

• Provide Resilience Support. The Center provides targeted technical capacity to under-resourced communities for advancing resilience planning and action.

Current projects focus on advancing objectives for fundamental climate resilience.

Read more about the Center’s Fundamentals Focus area in the 2024-2027 Strategic Plan here.