2018 Innovation Grants
The Climigration Network awarded $7,500 to five organizations in 2018 for Concept Development Support for Community-Led Projects on Climate Relocation. The organizations used these awards to catalyze the development of a community-led project that addressed the difficult topic of climate relocation. The network is seeking funding to expand its community-led project grants.
Alaska Institute for Justice
Alaska Native communities worked together to develop community-led relocation guidelines to protect their human rights. (Photo courtesy of Alaska Institute for Justice)
The University of New Hampshire
Scientists, professional actors, and facilitators used applied theater to help improve communication and understanding in communities facing climate relocation as a result of a changing climate. (Photo: Citizen science in action. Courtesy of New Hampshire Sea Grant)
The Lowlander Center (Louisiana)
The center developed a collaborative effort to design a dialogue between Bayou-Lowlands “sending communities” and inland-high ground “receiving communities.” (Photo: Point au Chien gathering. Credit Alessandra Jerolleman)
The Seabrook-Hamptons Estuary Alliance (New Hampshire)
The alliance took the first steps toward convening a community-wide conversation about climate relocation in the Town of Hampton. (Runner-up in the “Weather” category of SHEA’s 2016 photo contest. Photo by Ronald Grant, courtesy of SHEA)
The Anthropocene Alliance(Texas, Florida, New York)
Resident leaders in four flood-prone, marginalized communities explored ways to discuss climate relocation with their neighbors. (Photo: A community voice in Louisiana. Courtesy of Anthropocene Alliance)
Representatives from these organizations shared lessons learned in this learning session recording.
The 2018 award program was made possible through a partnership with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the generous support of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Banner photo credit: "Shishmaref- Erin (53) edit" by Bering Land Bridge National Preserve is licensed under CC BY 2.0