July 15, 2014 webinar discussing Kresge Climate Resilience and Urban Opportunity initiative grant opportunity.

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Environment Program
Climate Resilience and Urban
Opportunity Initiative
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2. Presentation Outline
• Introduction to Kresge
• Purpose of Initiative
• Definition of Climate Resilience
• Link to Urban Opportunity
• Description of Two-Phase Initiative
• Explanation of Application Process and Review Criteria
• Expectations of Grant Recipients
• Expected Outcomes
• Related information
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3. The Kresge Foundation
• Kresge is a private, national foundation that works to
expand opportunity for low-income people in America’s
cities.
• Its Environment Program helps communities build
resilience in the face of climate change.
• Emphasis on cities
• Interest in low-income inclusion and benefit
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4. Environment Program
• Two strategies
o Accelerate place-based innovation
o Build the climate-resilience field
• Place-based work focused on:
o Climate resilience in coastal cities and regions
o Sustainable water-resources management
o Urban energy resilience
o Climate resilience in low-income communities
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5. Purpose of Initiative: Overall
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Strengthen the capacity of community-based
nonprofit organizations to influence:
• Local and regional climate-resilience planning
• Policy development
• And implementation to better reflect the priorities
and needs of low-income people in U.S. cities

6. Purpose of Initiative: Toward What Ends?
• Address the disproportionate impact of climate change
on low-income communities
• Intentionally deliver multiple benefits to low-income
people and communities
• Substantively influence public-sector-led efforts to
address climate change so that outcomes of such efforts
are equitable for and reflect the priorities of low-income
communities
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7. Purpose of Initiative: Toward What Ends?
• Expand the number of thought leaders who approach
climate-resilience work with a strong analysis around
social equity
• Generate model approaches and methodologies for the
climate-resilience field of practice
• Enhance the effectiveness of climate-resilience efforts
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8. To build resilience to climate change, communities must:
• Anticipate and prepare for climate-change-related
pressures and shocks
• Lessen overall demand for energy and increase the
proportion derived from renewable sources
• Foster social cohesion
This definition of resilience is central to the initiative.
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Comprehensive Definition of Climate Resilience

9. Link of Climate Resilience to Urban Opportunity
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• Climate change a threat multiplier
• Disproportionate impact of climate change on low-income
people, globally and locally
• Efforts to increase resilience can either reduce or
inadvertently worsen disparity
• Targeted strategies necessary for the success of
resilience efforts
• Possible to deliver multiple benefits to communities

10. Two-Phase Initiative
Phase 1: Planning Grants in 2014
• Award up to 20, nine-month planning grants of up to
$100,000 each
• Support development of multiyear work plans for
engaging in local and/or regional climate-resilience
efforts
• Planning grant period is Jan. 1 – Sept. 30, 2015
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11. Two-Phase Initiative
Phase 2: Implementation Grants in 2015
• Subset of planning-grant recipients will be invited to
apply
• Award up to 15 multiyear implementation grants of up to
$200,000 per organization per year
• Implementation grant period begins in Fall 2015
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12. Planning Grant Application Process – SOQs
• Statements of Qualification (SOQ) due by 5 p.m. EDT on July
31, 2014
• Submit through Kresge’s online application system. You’ll find
the link via kresge.org/programs/environment.
• Required elements of information are described in the primer
that appears on kresge.org and include:
o Executive summary of up to 300 words
o Narrative describing your organization and proposed approach
o Names and qualifications of project staff and consultants
o Organization’s 2014 operating budget
o Completed demographic data sheet
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13. Planning Grant Application Process – Full Proposals
• Kresge staff reviews SOQs in August against criteria
described on page seven of primer
• Limited number of highly qualified organizations invited
in mid-August to apply for planning grants
• Applications from invited organizations due
Sept. 12, 2014
• Up to 20 grant awards announced in late 2014
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14. Who Will be a Competitive Applicant?
Nonprofit organizations with:
• Deep experience working successfully within low-
income, urban communities
• The standing to move into a leadership role on
climate-resilience efforts within their city and/or
region
• A strong recognition that engagement in climate-
resilience efforts is consistent with – and important
to the realization of – their mission
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15. Who Will be a Competitive Applicant?
• Nonprofit organizations with prior experience on climate
change and climate resilience and those with limited
prior experience.
• Organizations already active on climate resilience in low-
income, urban communities that want to sharpen their
strategic direction
• Well-established organizations with deep roots and proven
effectiveness in low-income, urban communities that want to
chart their path to engagement in climate-resilience work
We are interested in expanding the universe of nonprofit organizations
approaching climate-resilience work with a strong grounding in the
priorities and needs of low-income people in U.S. cities.
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16. Criteria for Review of SOQs
Strong preference given to organizations that:
• Intend to engage in a variety of efforts related to
improving their community’s climate resilience
• Are skilled at working across sectors
• Can bring a variety of tactics to their climate-
resilience efforts
• Employ a framework consistent with Kresge’s
comprehensive definition of climate resilience
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17. Criteria for Review of SOQs – Detail
• Focused on and skilled in working within low-income,
urban communities
• Aspiring to use or already using a comprehensive
framework of climate resilience
• Deeply rooted in the communities in which it proposes to
work as evidenced by tenure, membership, governance
and/or engagement
• Well respected due to past accomplishments
• Approaching its work with the intent of delivering multiple
benefits for historically disadvantaged community
residents
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18. Criteria for Review of SOQs – Detail
• Already engaged in or planning to engage in specific,
public-sector-led efforts to address climate change that
present an opportunity for influence
• Committed to pursuing its climate-relevant work in
collaboration with one or more private-sector, academic,
or other nonprofit-sector partners
• Connected to a regional or national network (preferred)
• Integrating arts and culture into its work and proposed
interventions (preferred)
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19. Which Applicants Will be Less Competitive?
Applicants are unlikely to be successful if they:
• Do not employ a comprehensive framework of climate
resilience
• Lack deep connections and accountability mechanisms
to the low-income, urban communities in which they
propose to work
• Do not present opportunity for meaningful cross-sector
collaboration
• Lack potential to influence specific, near-term public-led
efforts with high relevance to climate resilience
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20. Which Applicants Will be Less Competitive?
Applicants are unlikely to be successful if they:
• Propose engagement in a relatively isolated intervention
rather than a comprehensive resilience planning effort or a
suite of near-term policy or planning efforts relevant to the
community’s resilience
• Propose to serve only one neighborhood or a small set of
neighborhoods without an evident pathway for impact beyond
those boundaries
• Are focused on a rural geography
• Do not have full-time, paid staff
• Have a 2014 organizational budget of less than $500,000
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21. Expectations of Planning Grant Recipients
• Send representatives to peer-learning workshop in January 2015
• Produce an implementation plan describing how the
organization will work with an array of stakeholders over a
multiyear period to:
o Identify its community’s assets and vulnerabilities with respect to climate
change
o Contribute meaningfully to specific, local and/or regional, public-sector-
led efforts to address climate change
o Engage community members in the identification and implementation of
policies and other measures to improve the community’s climate
resilience
o Pursue its work in a way that will deliver multiple community benefits
o Document lessons from its work so others may benefit from its
experiences
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22. Expectations of Planning Grant Recipients
• Share the draft implementation plan with Kresge by
July 1, 2015
• Host a possible site visit from Kresge representatives
• Produce a final implementation plan by Sept. 30, 2015
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23. Expectations of Implementation Grant Recipients
• Execute your organization’s multiyear implementation plan
• Participate in annual peer-learning meetings with colleague
organizations supported through this initiative
• Participate in one additional climate-resilience conference or
workshop per year as a presenter or learner
• Host one or more site visits from Kresge representatives
and/or colleague organizations supported through this
initiative
• Document accomplishments and lessons resulting from your
work to contribute to building a field of practice
• Submit annual progress reports to Kresge
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24. Expected Outcomes from Planning Grants
Funded organizations will have:
• Identified specific opportunities to shape and
influence local and/or regional climate-resilience
planning, policy development, and implementation
to better reflect the priorities and needs of low-
income people in their communities
• Developed clear work plans for pursuing those
opportunities
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25. Expected Outcomes from Implementation Grants
• Each funded organization will emerge with
strengthened institutional and political capacity to
influence climate-resilience efforts in its community
• The communities in which grantees have worked
will have measurably advanced climate-resilience
planning, policy development, and implementation
• Participating organizations will generate model
methodologies and policies that can be adapted by
others
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26. Expected Outcomes from Implementation Grants
• A growing cadre of individuals and institutions
grounded in an understanding of low-income
communities will emerge as nationally recognized
thought leaders in climate resilience
• Kresge and participating organizations collectively
build the evidence base for and defines a clear set
of pathways to engage leaders and advocates
grounded in the needs and priorities of low-income
communities in climate-resilience work
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27. Other resources
Please see a detailed primer on the initiative and a related FAQ
at kresge.org
The FAQ will be updated to address questions received in the
July 15 webinar.
You may learn when that update is available via:
• Kresge’s Twitter and Facebook accounts
• by subscribing to Kresge email alerts
• or by including us in your RSS feed
Find all of those channels by visiting kresge.org/subscribe
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28. Kresge Staff Associated with This Initiative
Environment Program
Lois DeBacker, Managing Director
Jessica Boehland, Program Officer
Jill Johnson, Program Team Assistant
John Nordgren, Senior Program Officer
Marian Urquilla, Consultant to Environment Program
Grants Management Department
Ra’mona Crumb, Grants Management Assistant
Joyce Holliman, Grants Management Associate
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