Lowering Carbon Emissions, Upskilling Culinary Workers in New York City, NY: A project to increase the availability of healthy, plant-forward, delicious, culturally appropriate food for a vulnerable population currently incarcerated and under the care of DOC, while driving down the carbon emissions of DOC’s food purchases. (CNCA Game Changer Fund, 2025).
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Hydro panels, Canopy, and Resilience for Ashburton, Baltimore, MD: A project to create a resiliency pilot project introducing a public water station produced by hydro panels with a multipurpose green space use of fruit tree canopy. (Resilience Hub Fund for Resilient Power Systems, 2025).
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Convening Community Organizations for Climate Action Through Affordable Energy Solutions in Columbus, OH: A project to host the Energy Smart Home Expo to catalyze a network of community organizations focused on affordable energy solutions for Columbus residents through collaboration with Electrify Central Ohio (ECO). (Catalyst Fund, 2025).
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Food for Sustainable Communities (Circular Food Community Project), in London, UK: A project to develop a replicable model for a circular food community in London Bourough of Islington, embedding interventions that increase residents’ consumption of low carbon food and reduce food waste. (CNCA Game Changer Fund, 2025).
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Hough Community Green Space in Cuyahoga County, OH: A collaborative partnership to foster vibrancy and climate resiliency by repurposing the 2.6-acre former Cleveland Metropolitan School District site into Thurgood Marshall Green Park.(Partners for Places Fund, 2025).
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Just Food, Just Climate and The Power to Grow in Charlottesville, VA: A collaborative partnership to cultivate relationships, skills, and action at the intersection of food and climate justice in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Partners for Places Fund, 2025).
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Bridging the Heat Pump Cost Gap in the Upper Midwest in Green Bay, WI: A project focused on reframing the argument for the installation of heat pumps in the Upper Midwest, where they are more expensive to operate than natural gas furnaces. (Emergent Learning Fund, 2025).
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Creating an Urban Agriculture Directors Alliance: A project driven by USDN member city, Boston, MA, to secure start-up funding to formalize the Urban Agriculture Directors Alliance - a coalition of municipal urban agriculture staff from across the nation. (Catalyst Fund, 2025).
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Building Collective Capacity to Implement Climate Goals Across Hawai‘i’s Four Counties: A project to host a two-day in-person convening to bring together County employees working in sustainability across the four counties of Hawai‘i to establish network goals, protocols, and priorities as well as build capacity to implement local climate action in a time of federal uncertainty and rollbacks of federal funding. (Catalyst Fund, 2025).
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Community-led Climate Action through Food Justice in Louisville, KY: A project to advance community-led planning and community-informed implementation of equitable and sustainable food system solutions to address climate change. (Emergent Learning Fund, 2025).
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Building Community Voice and Rooting Work in Place-Based Knowledge through Participatory Storytelling Training in Hawaii County, HI: A project to conduct a pilot train-the-trainer to train county staff and partner CBOs in participatory storytelling around relationship to place and what sustainability and climate action means to our community during our community outreach. (Emergent Learning Fund, 2025).
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Flagstaff’s Green Schoolyard Story Mapping Project in Flagstaff, AZ: A project to map green space/schoolyard infrastructure and access to advance equitable district-wide climate justice for all in response to Flagstaff’s Climate Action & Neutrality Plans. (Partners for Places Fund, 2025).
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Sustainability Capacity in Community Impacted by Emergency Management in Benton Harbor, MI: A project to develop Benton Harbor Justice 40 Action Plan, local and regional leadership for climate action, restorative community partnerships, and funding opportunities in an environmental justice community. (Partners for Places Fund, 2025).
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Heat Relief Network in Scottsdale, AZ: A project to obtain essential supplies to support heat relief services citywide in partnership with Scottsdale Community Partners. (USDN Mid-Sized Cities Fund, 2025).
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Alternative Solar Financing for Multifamily Housing in Madison, WI: A project to establish and complete proof of concept of a rooftop solar installation model that will directly reduce utility bills for residents of unsubsidized affordable housing. (USDN Mid-Sized Cities Fund, 2025).
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Regional Resilience Project in Flagstaff, AZ: A project to support local climate resilience initiatives in partnership with Sunnyside Neighborhood Association, Southside Community Association, and Community Assistance Teams of Flagstaff. (Emergent Learning Fund, 2025).
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Empowering Detroit CBOs with Solar Feasibility Assessments in Detroit, MI: A project to advance clean and resilient energy adoption for non-profits serving Detroiters, the City of Detroit will partner with Elevate to provide solar feasibility assessment to facilities. (Resilience Hub Fund for Resilient Power Systems, 2025).
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Climate Justice Collaborative Two-Year Capacity and Implementation Project in Marin County, CA: A project to create lasting capacity for frontline community involvement and leadership in local climate resilience decision-making in Marin County. (Partners for Places, 2025).
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Resident-led waterfront access and coastal resilience through partnership and collaboration in Chelsea, MA: A project to implement the community’s vision of waterfront access, climate justice and land sovereignty along the Mill Creek in the frontline community of Chelsea, MA. (Partners for Places, 2025).
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Fair Energy Futures: Combating Energy Poverty in Australian Capitals Cities (Melbourne, Australia): A project to investigate the systemic causes of energy poverty in Australian local government areas, focusing initially on Melbourne as a case study. (CNCA Game Changer Fund, 2025).
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Equity-driven Green Infrastructure Planning in the Chollas Creek Watershed in San Diego, CA: A project to elevate an emerging partnership for San Diego’s most under-invested, urbanized, diverse, and physically compromised watershed and generates a community-centered GSI Plan scope. (Partners for Places, 2025).
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A Resilience Hub Plan for Avondale in Cincinnati, OH: A project to assess what Avondale residents, need from a resilience hub, complete an energy audit for the Urban League facility, and produce a resilience hub plan. (Resilience Hub Fund for Resilient Power Systems, 2025).
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Transitioning from co-planning to co-implementation in Harris County, TX: A project to continue an equitable collaborative partnership between the Coalition for Environment, Equity, and Resilience (CEER) and Harris County to move from co-planning to co-implementation of the Harris County Climate Justice Plan. (Emergent Learning Fund, 2025).
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UrbanHeatATL Moving Atlanta Forward in Atlanta, GA: A project to relaunch the UrbanHeatATL initiative, a cross-disciplinary collaboration empowering students and the Atlanta community through mapping extreme heat in underserved communities. (Emergent Learning Fund, 2025).
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Climate Action Plan Community Engagement Project in Alachua County, FL: A project to engage five community-based nonprofits to survey and dialogue with unreached residents during Climate Action Plan development. (Emergent Learning Fund, 2025).
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Equitable Climate Resiliency in Affordable Multifamily Housing with Energy Audits in Austin, TX: A project to conduct Energy & Decarbonization Audits at two existing affordable housing properties to build and maintain deeply affordable housing for Austin’s most vulnerable populations that can withstand the challenges brought on by climate change and severe-weather related events. (Community Climate Implementation Fund, 2025).
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Citizen Co-Design for a Just Transition to Net Zero in Glasgow, Scotland: A project to co-design a collaborative system with local people to embed participatory democracy and support delivery of a just transition in Glasgow. (CNCA Climate Justice Fund, 2025).
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Strengthening our Roots: Protecting Green Spaces through Community Control in Rochester, NY: A project to advance environmental justice in the Beechwood neighborhood and establish equitable city land sale policy through collaboration from government, nonprofits, and our local community foundation. (Partners for Places, 2025).
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Decarbonizing Downtown Business Deliveries Study in San Francisco, CA: A project to convene a community led working group of local businesses in Equity Priority Communities within San Francisco’s proposed downtown congestion pricing zone to consider zero emission delivery strategies that can address concerns about congestion pricing on local businesses. (CNCA Game Changer Fund, 2025).
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Centennial Community Resilience Hub Energy Assessment in Portland, OR: A project to determine the scope and cost of energy efficiency upgrades in 5 different locations within the Centennial neighborhood, a low-income ethnically diverse neighborhood with poor infrastructure and at substantial risk during climate emergencies. (Resilience Hub Fund, 2025).
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Solar Powered Communities Project in Sydney, Australia: A project to support the installation of solar energy systems in low- and moderate- income (LMI) communities in the City of Sydney and promote the larger policy goals around standardizing and sharing solar project best practices. (American Express Fund, 2025).
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Solar Powered Communities Project in Salt Lake City, UT: A project to increase adoption of solar PV by businesses in low and moderate income (LMI) neighborhoods of Salt Lake City, Utah through education, streamlining of solar system financing and installation, and leveraging additional funding. (American Express Fund, 2025).
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Phoenix Solar Energy Assistance Program in Phoenix, AZ: A project to launch the Phoenix Solar Energy Assistance Program (PSEAP) to fully fund residential rooftop solar installations for ten Phoenix families who were income-qualified in an effort to promote increased equitable adoption of solar and save families money each month from their electric bills. (American Express Fund, 2025).
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Mobilizing youth to promote hurricane preparedness throughout vulnerable community in Savannah, GA: A project to give funding to local community-based organization, Savannah Youth City to provide a safe space for undeserved youth to be hands on in climate work and to supply low-income vulnerable neighborhood residents with tools and education to be used in the case of a natural disaster in close collaboration with Savannah Police Department and the American Red Cross. (Emergent Learning Fund, 2025).
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Building Climate Knowledge in Priority Communities in Sydney, Australia: A project to deliver a community codesigned program to equip priority communities with the knowledge, tools and planning capacity to prepare for the impacts of climate change and build community resilience to shocks and stresses. (CNCA Climate Justice Fund, 2025).
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