Resilience Archives - Institute for Sustainable Communities

by ISC Staff | August 20, 2020

3 Key Approaches in Building Resilient Cotton Cultivating Communities

India may be the world’s largest producer of cotton, but cotton cultivating communities in the country face serious risks associated with high water stress and low community resilience to climate change. The need of the hour is to promote [...]

Climate

by Ravikant Kumar | August 19, 2020

In Response to Climate Change, Cotton Farmers Work to Understand and Conserve Water Resources

Annual rainfall that cannot support robust cotton cultivation, and fast-declining ground water levels are real risks cotton farmers must manage for their crops and their livelihoods. Vijay Narayan Rau, a cotton farmer in Kalamb block of Yavatmal [...]

Resilience

by ISC Staff | June 11, 2020

Snapshot of How Partnership for Resilient Community Planning Partners Have Responded to the COVID-19 Pandemic

This list is by no means conclusive, it lifts up only a handful of the innovative and community-based actions being taken by partners right now to provide essential support and services during the crisis. Please click the links to each [...]

Resilience

by Radiah Shabazz | June 10, 2020

Strength in the face of COVID: Women of Color Leading from the Hot Spots

A Tale of Three Cities Detroit. New York. New Orleans. In the last several weeks these three cities have become epicenters of COVID-19, as all have experienced high rates of infection and/or death from the disease. Each city is also densely [...]

ISC Update

by Romit Sen | April 20, 2020

Ensuring a water secure future in Maharashtra’s cotton growing villages

On a sunny October morning in 2019, members of the Donoda village council (Gram Panchayat) in Yavatmal, Maharashtra met to better understand what they could do about the lack of irrigation water for their cotton crops. Sadly, Yavatmal had seen [...]

Resilience

by Bennetta Robinson | March 24, 2020

Upper Texas Gulf Coast Community Partners Share Convening Insights

Texas Gulf Coast community partners exuded the often said “go big or go home,” as they represented the Lone Star State at last month's peer learning convening. With high visibility and eagerness, they participated in technical assistance and [...]

Resilience

by Larissa Lopez | March 24, 2020

Funders Highlight: Perspective on the Direction of Equity in Climate Change and Equitable Development

From invaluable advice on philanthropic fundraising strategies, to profound discussions around the role and direction of philanthropy as a whole, this uniquely candid plenary session created the container for community-based organizations and a [...]

Resilience

by Jaime Love | March 24, 2020

Integrating Climate Change and Health to Build a Movement for Equitable Policy Change

As a member of the Community Led Resilience (CLR) team, I have the pleasure of not only working on the Partnership for Resilient Communities, but also our work serving as the National Program Office (NPO) for The Kresge Foundation’s Climate [...]

Resilience

by ISC Staff | March 24, 2020

Mobile Tour Highlights A Tale of Two Communities – Actions on Preventing Displacement in Atlanta and East Point, Georgia

By Sarita Turner and Bennetta RobinsonA key highlight of the PRC convening was the mobile tours of East Point, Georgia and Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn neighborhood. Sweet Auburn, a bedrock of the Civil Rights Movement and the very neighborhood where [...]

Resilience

by ISC Staff | December 11, 2019

New Orleans’ 7th Ward Combats Climate Change, Builds Community Resilience

Angela Chalk lives in the 7th Ward of New Orleans. Though the Ward sits adjacent to the city’s vibrant and economically critical tourism district, a bitter alchemy of geology (proximity to the Mississippi and impermeable clay soil) and a long [...]

Resilience

by Romit Sen | October 15, 2019

Celebrating International Day of Rural Women: Unleashing the power of women for sustainable cotton production in India

Tulsabai, a farmer in Sawner village of Ralegaon block in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra looks up to the sky to see if there is possibility of rains. Rainfall in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, a major cotton growing belt in India and a [...]

News

by ISC Staff | October 10, 2019

New Cohort of Partners Join Partnership for Resilient Communities

For Immediate Release: October 11, 2019New Cohort of Partners Join Partnership for Resilient Communities National equity-centered climate program welcomes new and returning partnersOctober 11, 2019 – The Institute for Sustainable Communities [...]

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