The Climate Science Alliance understands the barriers many groups and individuals face to obtaining funding (e.g., limited staff capacity and time, complex reporting requirements, to name a few), and has seen firsthand how these barriers limit our community partners in pursuing, implementing, or continuing projects of value to our region.
The Climate Science Alliance re-grants funds to organizations and individuals to build capacity and support collaboration. The goal of the regranting program is to support our partners’ professional, research, and educational efforts in a transparent and equitable manner.
Throughout 2023 and 2024,
we responded to community priorities and needs by investing deeply in our model of capacity building and reciprocity:
$575,000
invested in Indigenous-led organizations
$230,000
invested in technical advisors and fellows
$71,000
invested in small-grants projects
Investing in Organizations
Strengthening the capacity of organizations to advance collaboration, planning, and actions across southern California and beyond. These grants often support efforts to explore and integrate Indigenous knowledges, participation, and leadership in climate adaptation.
Investing in Projects
Our Small Grants program supports community-led efforts that fill in gaps in existing projects and helps seed fund new efforts to safeguard natural and human communities in the face of a changing climate.
BINATIONAL WORKING GROUP SMALL GRANTS
The goal of this program is to support Binational Working Group member's professional, research, and educational efforts in a transparent and equitable
manner. Projects have a climate change emphasis, and are located in or near the Baja Peninsula, its surrounding waters, or the Mexico-California border region.
TRIBAL WORKING GROUP SMALL GRANTS
The goal of this program is to support Tribal Working Group member’s professional, cultural, community based, and educational efforts in a respectful and equitable manner. Projects should focus on advancing Indigenous climate resilience, adaptation, and/ or environmental health for the collective community.
Investing in People
Compensated opportunities for technical advisors, fellows, and interns to develop training, projects, activities, and/or to mentor, guide, and advise community members.
Meet our current technical advisors, fellows, and interns below.
Meet our past cohorts on the team page.
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