The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia has joined a nationwide coalition of more than 40 community foundations to launch the Community Foundation Climate Collaborative. The Collaborative is a coordinated effort aimed at helping local communities secure funding and more effectively respond to climate change.
The Collaborative will leverage community foundations’ deep frontline knowledge of local issues and long-standing relationships with nonprofit organizations to help direct the unprecedented infusion of federal, state, and private funding dedicated to climate projects across the country.
- Further, the Collaborative will focus on:
- Promoting coordinated learning, research, and analysis on climate-related challenges and opportunities.
- Enabling innovation, creative problem solving, and replication of best practices.
- Supporting strategic partnerships and resource mobilization efforts focused on large climate funders and federal agencies.
- Facilitating joint action and advocacy including federal lobbying.
The effort will prioritize offering guidance and support to marginalized communities, which often bear the brunt of climate-related impacts but lack adequate resources and expertise to consistently secure governmental and philanthropic funding.
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