Resilient Cities Catalyst has worked in California since 2019 to advance high-impact climate resilience projects that benefit historically marginalized and climate-vulnerable communities, facilitate actionable knowledge exchange, and elevate California’s global climate leadership.
The flagship program of RCC’s Regional Resilience Partnerships program, the California Resilience Partnership (CRP) was born in 2021 with a vision to generate meaningful partnerships, while bolstering existing efforts, in order to advance resilience projects, continually evolving to better meet the resilience needs of local places, regionally, and at the state level.
Through deep work in greater Los Angeles, greater San Diego, greater Sacramento, and the Central Coasts, the program unearthed funding and implementation challenges that underscored the need in California to strengthen innovative partnerships and catalyze philanthropic funding, in concert with public resources, to better advance action. From this need, the program laid the groundwork for the California Resilience Implementation Accelerator initiative (“the Accelerator”).
Anchored by the Accelerator, the California Resilience Partnership is now the umbrella for all of RCC’s work in and related to California, integrating and uplifting partner efforts across California that better inform resilience implementation and action.
RCC’s collective work in California underscores an effort to braid together and amplify complementary existing efforts from partners across California to better inform project development and resilience action, across the nation and beyond.
Programs
Advisory Board
Advisory Board
The CRP Advisory Board provides strategic guidance on RCC’s programmatic activities in California and includes key leaders across sectors, including philanthropy, non-profits, the private sector, academia, and other critical stakeholders representing regions across California.
Bernadette Austin, CEO, CivicWell
Darbi Berry, Chair, Alliance of Regional Collaboratives for Climate Adaptation (ARCCA) and Director, The San Diego Regional Climate Collaborative
Louise Bedsworth, Executive Director Center for Law, Energy, & the Environment, Berkeley Law
Erin Coutts,
Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability (LARC), UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Abby Edwards,
Senior Deputy Director, Governor's Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation
Jessica Hitt,
Associate Director ClimateWorks Foundation
Nuin-Tara Key, Executive Director of Programs, California Forward
Jonathan Parfrey, Executive Director, Climate Resolve
Robert Miyashiro,
Ex-Officio Member, Program Officer, International Programs, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Kiara Reed,
Executive Director, Civic Thread
Impact
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