Foundation’s Next 100 Years Challenge Holds Final Learning Community of Practice – CONTINUED
While this does not mean goodbye, it was a great occasion to come together for fellowship, reflection and strategizing on how to fund critically important resilience projects forward. The Community of Practice, comprised of teams working on similar projects, allows participants to both learn from each other as well as experts. CoPs are a proven learning tool that the Foundation has tried and tested over time. This CoP came together six times to provide opportunities for peer-to-peer learning, networking, and relationship-building. The CoP provided teams an opportunity to implement a learning agenda that strengthened their applications for additional infrastructure dollars from the state and federal government as well as other funders that will support the development of their much-needed green infrastructure projects.
While shifting federal funding priorities have impacted some of the Challenge winners, we believe that there is still a way to bring all of the projects to implementation. Mike Crowley of Quantified Ventures, a firm that “designs, capitalizes and scales investible solutions to address the most pressing challenges facing communities”, talked with CoP members about financing mechanisms that their counterparts in other cities and states are using to fund resilience projects.
The regional resilience projects supported by the Next 100 Years Challenge are crucial to our region, as we continually develop collective solutions to excessive heat, flooding, land loss and water quality challenges. We thank Janice Barnes, our excellent lead consultant at Climate Adaptation Partners, for her transformational work in making the Next 100 Years Challenge an enormous success. We also extend our heartfelt gratitude to Subject Matter Experts Challenge winners and their partners, our Greater New Orleans Foundation colleagues and all who had a hand in making this happen. To view a full list of thank-yous, click here.
NEXT 100 YEARS CHALLENGE COLLABORATORS
Community of Practice Members
- City of Gretna / Groundwork New Orleans / Dana Brown & Associates / CSRS
- City of Westwego / New Day Fellowship Church / Dana Brown & Associates
- Committee for a Better New Orleans / Regional Transit Authority
- Lafitte Greenway Partnership/ Greater Treme Consortium / Broad Community Connections /Ujamaa CDC
- Healthy Gulf / Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans
- Jefferson Parish Government / Jefferson Community Foundation
- Restore or Retreat, Inc. / Lafourche Parish Government
- St. Bernard Economic Development Foundation
- St. John the Baptist Parish
- Sankofa Community Development Corporation / Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority
- Song Development Corporation / City of New Orleans Hazard Mitigation Office
- Terrebonne Economic Development Authority / Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government
- United Houma Nation, Inc. / Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government
- Waterwise Gulf South / City of New Orleans Office of Resilience
- YMCA of Greater New Orleans / Pontchartrain Conservancy / Plaquemines Parish Office of Coastal Resources
WEBINAR TECHNICAL EXPERTS
- Climate Adaptation Partners
- Climate Resilience Consulting
- Earth’s Next Chapter
- Fernleaf Interactive
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- Quantified Ventures
- Scott Davis Urban Solutions
SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS
- Climate Adaptation Partners
- Climate Resilience Consulting
- Community Lattice
- CPEX
- Fernleaf Interactive
- Gulf States Renewable Energy Industries Association
- HDR
- ONE Architecture and Urbanism
- Quantified Ventures
- Scape Landscape Architecture
- Scott Davis Urban Solutions
- Sherwood Engineers
- The Water Institute
- Waggonner & Ball
COMPETITION JUDGES
Deep South Center for Environmental Justice; Environmental Defense Fund; Environmental Grantmakers Association; Henk Ovink, Special Envoy for International Water Affairs, Kingdom of the Netherlands; KeyString Labs; Kresge Foundation; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Gulf Research Program; New Orleans Redevelopment Authority; Rebuild by Design; Robin Barnes, Independent Consultant; Tulane Energy Institute; Walton Family Foundation; and Wege Foundation
CATERERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, VIDEOGRAPHER, DRIVERS
Rob Eddington Catering, Varvara Degtiarenko Videography, Christopher from Limousine Livery, and Billiot Photography & Video
CHALLENGE PLATFORM & PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Carrot
WORKSHOP HOST ORGANIZATIONS
New Wine Christian Fellowship, WYES, and Lafitte Greenway Partnership
CHALLENGE LEAD CONSULTANT
Climate Adaptation Partners