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Overview

AFC Local Flood Solutions Grantee Cohort

Status: Inaugural cohort announced for 2020-2021

Overview: The American Flood Coalition's first-ever grantee cohort program that funds local place-based organizations testing scalable solutions to flooding. AFC lifts up the work of local innovators to inform policy at all levels and help scale best practices from grantees' efforts to the state and federal level.

Geographic Scope: United States (demonstrated projects in Texas, Virginia, and Iowa)

Focus Areas:

  • Equitable flood resilience approaches

  • Community task force engagement and governance

  • Resilient land use strategies (buyouts, conservation, market-based tools)

  • Regenerative agriculture practices for flood reduction

  • Nature-based solutions
  • Eligible Applicants:

  • Local place-based organizations

  • Community-based organizations

  • Non-profit organizations
  • 2020-2021 Grantees:

  • Coalition for Environment, Equity and Resilience (CEER) - Harris County, Texas flood mitigation equity work

  • Wetlands Watch - Coastal Virginia resilient land use strategies in Chesapeake and Norfolk

  • Northeast Iowa Resource Conservation & Development - Multi-cropping and regenerative agriculture flood reduction research
  • Funding Source: Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust

    Contact: info@floodcoalition.org

    Focus Areas & Funding Uses

    Fields of Work

    environmentdisaster-reliefcommunity-development

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