Resilience Archives - Institute for Sustainable Communities

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 [...]

Resilience

by ISC Staff | May 30, 2019

PRC Projects Celebrate Success this Spring

From Urban Milwaukee by Jeramey Jannene Walnut Way Conservation Corp. and over 19 partners gathered Thursday morning at the Fondy Farmers Market at 2220 W. Fond du Lac Ave. Thursday morning to celebrate the completion of a number of green [...]

ISC Update

by ISC Staff | April 22, 2019

Identifying Indian Textile Water Best Practices with the Women + Water Alliance

Industrial fabric dying/screening process. Photo credit: Institute for Sustainable Communities Access to clean water is essential for community health and well-being, yet in India more than half the population faces high to extremely high water [...]

Press Release

by ISC Staff | February 6, 2019

ISC Selected to Manage Climate Change, Health & Equity Initiative

For Immediate Release: February 6, 2019 International Sustainability Organization Selected as Kresge Foundation Initiative Partner Climate Change, Health & Equity Initiative will support innovative solutions in underserved [...]

Resilience

by Anna Marandi | December 12, 2018

Preparing for Wildfire in Puget Sound

The possibility that a large wildfire could occur in the forests on the highly urbanized west side of Washington State’s Cascade Mountains is currently a remote, but real, possibility that grows every year as the region’s population increases, [...]

Resilience

by ISC Staff | December 6, 2018

Leading with Equity: Communities Working Toward Resilience

By Senior Program Officer Jaime Love and Program Officer Nicole EnrightTransparency, trust, truth, trauma, and healing.That’s how our New Orleans-based partners, Healthy Community Services, described their approach to their resilience project, [...]

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