Building on pilot programs in Santa Barbara and Oceanside, RCC launched The California Coastal Accelerator, driving coastal leadership and resilience project implementation in five coastal communities across the state.
About the Coastal Accelerator
The Coastal Accelerator initiative takes a two pronged approach to support communities — providing funding and technical support to advance priority projects within each community and bringing together the local leaders implementing the projects in a cohort for peer exchange.
Each participating community will receive support tailored to its unique needs and local context - meaning no two cohort members will have the same experience. The Coastal Accelerator is designed to be adaptive, with programming that evolves in response to stakeholder input and on-the-ground realities. This approach ensures that each community maximizes the impact of the partnership while contributing to a broader, collaborative model that spreads best practices for coastal resilience across California.
The Cohort
The Approach
Channeling Technical Assistance and Financial Support to Advance Implementation
Tailored technical assistance from RCC and local partners, along with direct funding opportunities, will advance project development, permitting, partnership-building, and implementation funding strategies to position projects to be ready to receive the next phase of capital funding, moving projects through environmental compliance, final design, and/or engineering and permitting processes toward implementation.
Unearth Universal Challenges with Statewide Policy and Regulatory Implications
Through the process of advancing project implementation and learning emerging from cohort collaboration and knowledge exchanges, the Coastal Accelerator will reveal and synthesize common barriers to implementation across California coastal communities and highlight necessary policy and process changes to facilitate action.
Build Coastal Resilience Leadership & Community Across California
By advancing place-based solutions and fostering statewide collaboration, the Coastal Accelerator seeks to establish a replicable model for accelerating climate resilience—demonstrating how California can lead in safeguarding and increasing access to its coast while setting a global example for adaptation in action.
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