Accelerating resiliency planning in communities across the Commonwealth
The information, tools, and resources offered here address preparedness, adaptation, and resilience-building for a changing climate. This resource explains what “adaptation success” looks like and how to track progress toward it, and offers ways to think and use tools to help find tailored answers.
Regeneration International (RI) promotes, facilitates, and accelerates the global transition to regenerative food, farming and land management for the purpose of restoring climate stability, ending world hunger, and rebuilding deteriorated social, ecological, and economic systems.
NIST’s Economic Decision Guide Software tool can be used to select cost-effective community resilience projects.
NIST’S section on Community Resilience provides planning guides and a multi-faceted program for communities and stakeholders to assist them on issues related to disaster resilience work, complementing efforts by others in the public and private sectors. NIST focuses on research, community planning and guidance and stakeholder engagement.
FEMA’s Nature-Based Solutions guides outline how nature-based solutions can be used in sustainable planning and community resiliency, often at a lower cost than traditional infrastructure.
The ISC develops, tests, and shares cost-effective approaches to tackling local challenges with a strong focus on what they’ve seen to be the biggest threats to sustainability. The ISC team works with factories and cities because of the central role they play in achieving change.
The Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy’s search engine for articles relevant to resilience gives browsers access to hundreds of articles that explore the various challenges and opportunties communities around the world are addressing.
FEMA and the National Flood Insurance Program offer the FloodSmart website where users can learn how insurance costs reflect a property’s flood risk.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) interactive matrix is a list of selected federal financial assistance programs that are available to assist state and local, tribal, and territorial governments in natural hazard mitigation and energy resilience activities.
The information, tools, and resources offered here address preparedness, adaptation, and resilience-building for a changing climate. This resource explains what “adaptation success” looks like and how to track progress toward it, and offers ways to think and use tools to help find tailored answers.
Regeneration International (RI) promotes, facilitates, and accelerates the global transition to regenerative food, farming and land management for the purpose of restoring climate stability, ending world hunger, and rebuilding deteriorated social, ecological, and economic systems.
NIST’s Economic Decision Guide Software tool can be used to select cost-effective community resilience projects.
NIST’S section on Community Resilience provides planning guides and a multi-faceted program for communities and stakeholders to assist them on issues related to disaster resilience work, complementing efforts by others in the public and private sectors. NIST focuses on research, community planning and guidance and stakeholder engagement.
FEMA’s Nature-Based Solutions guides outline how nature-based solutions can be used in sustainable planning and community resiliency, often at a lower cost than traditional infrastructure.
The ISC develops, tests, and shares cost-effective approaches to tackling local challenges with a strong focus on what they’ve seen to be the biggest threats to sustainability. The ISC team works with factories and cities because of the central role they play in achieving change.
The Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy’s search engine for articles relevant to resilience gives browsers access to hundreds of articles that explore the various challenges and opportunties communities around the world are addressing.
FEMA and the National Flood Insurance Program offer the FloodSmart website where users can learn how insurance costs reflect a property’s flood risk.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) interactive matrix is a list of selected federal financial assistance programs that are available to assist state and local, tribal, and territorial governments in natural hazard mitigation and energy resilience activities.
From the Leader's in Energy website: "Join us for our Circular Economy Working Group meetings which are held on…
Resilient Virginia Collaborative Alliance Working Group monthly meeting. Register here to get the zoom link to join the call.
This is part of the special extended webinar of talks from the 21st Annual EPA Drinking Water Workshop.
Learn more and register here.
When an area has received a Presidential declaration of an emergency or major disaster, then its state, tribal, territorial and local governments — and certain types of private non-profits — may be eligible to apply for Public Assistance (PA).
Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) Program is available to states, local and tribal governments, for the mitigation, management, and control of fires on publicly or privately owned forests or grasslands, which threaten such destruction as would constitute a major disaster.
The National Dam Safety Program (NDSP) State Assistance Grant Awards provide assistance to encourage the establishment and maintenance of effective State programs intended to ensure dam safety, to protect human life and property, and to improve State dam safety programs.
FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program provides funding to state, local, tribal and territorial governments so they can develop hazard mitigation plans and rebuild in a way that reduces, or mitigates, future disaster losses in their communities.
The Flood Mitigation Assistance grant program is a competitive program that provides funding to states, federally recognized Tribal governments, U.S. territories, and local governments.
