The California Resilience Partnership (CRP), has partnered with local nonprofit and public partners since 2019 to facilitate implementation of priority, high-impact climate resilience projects that benefit historically marginalized and climate-vulnerable California communities, while advancing actionable knowledge exchange and California’s global climate leadership.
CRP has evolved since it's inception to better meet the resilience needs of local places 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, CRP laid the groundwork for the California Resilience Implementation Accelerator initiative (“the Accelerator”).
Anchored by the Accelerator, CRP now acts as the umbrella for RCC and partners to integrate and uplift complementary existing efforts from partners across California that better inform resilience implementation and action.
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Core partners leading the implementation of CRP programs include:
CRP programs are generously supported by:
Advisory Board
The CRP Advisory Board includes key leaders across sectors, including philanthropy, non-profits, the private sector, academia, and other critical stakeholders representing regions across California. Advisory Board members provide strategic guidance on projects and programmatic activities and support opportunities for new cross-sectoral partnerships. The Advisory Board meets quarterly and is a key partner informing ongoing development and implementation of programs within the California Resilience Partnership.
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