Extreme Heat and Community Resilience Program 
Listening Sessions & Grant Program| May 9 - 31 | Register Today 
The Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program (ICARP) team is hosting a series of listening sessions for the Extreme Heat and Community Resilience Program from May 9-31, 2023. These listening sessions will help ensure that stakeholders' needs and perspectives are being considered from the beginning of the grant guideline development process. 

NCRF Technical Reviewer 
Volunteer Opportunity | Apply by May 31
Volunteer to serve as an external technical reviewer for the National Coastal Resilience Fund and help them identify the most meritorious projects in your region for advancing nature-based solutions that will enhance community resilience to coastal hazards and improve habitats for fish and wildlife.

2023 Climate Adaptation Leadership Awards Nominations Open 
Call for Nominations | Nominations Due May 31 
The Climate Adaptation Leadership Awards (CALA) recognizes outstanding efforts to increase the resilience of America's valuable living natural resources and the many people, businesses and communities that depend on them. Established in 2016, each year CALA recognizes exemplary leadership by individuals, agencies, businesses, and other organizations to reduce impacts and advance adaptation of the nation's vital natural resources in a changing world.

Nature Based Solutions Survey 
Survey | Responses due May 31 
This survey is intended to collect information about existing challenges/barriers to "nature-based solution" projects (or "nature-based climate solutions") in Massachusetts, such as restoring coastal and inland wetlands and rivers and planting trees. 

Climate Adaptation Science Centers Project Solicitation 
Statement of Interest | SOI Due May 31 
This solicitation invites Statements of Interest (SOIs) for projects to begin in Federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 for the Alaska, Northwest, Southwest, North Central, South Central, Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CASCs). The CASCs seek to fund science projects that inform high-priority natural and cultural heritage resource management issues that can benefit from climate adaptation science and traditional knowledges.

NOAA, Smithsonian and Fed Partners Seeking Suggestions to Update Climate Literacy Guide 
Public Comment | Respond by May 31
USGCRP is seeking to create an updated guide that is broadly relevant and provides useful information to all people in the United States. The team is interested in personal narrative and experience; Indigenous Knowledge; local knowledge and lived experience; and technical, legal, and scientific content, or research from any discipline. Comments can be submitted electronically at contribute.globalchange.gov until 11:59 PM ET on May 31, 2023.

Mid-West Climate Resilience Conference - Call for Session and Presentation
Submissions Now Open |Submit by Friday June 9 The Midwest CASC is looking for session and presentation ideas that supports the broader purpose of the conference to advance climate adaptation and resilience for communities and ecosystems in the midwest, reflects a balance between research, practice, professional issues and education. Please submit your idea for a workshop, training, symposia, poster presentation or lightning talk session.

GLISA Small Grants Competition 
Funding Opportunity | LOI Due June 23 
This year’s competition will award several 2-year grants of up to $30,000 each to organizations that will collaborate with GLISA to advance equitable climate adaptation in the Great Lakes region. Successful proposals will increase GLISA’s impact and address and amplify dimensions of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) in adaptation action.  These projects bridge the gap between climate information and those making decisions about adapting to climate change impacts. 

Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants
Funding Opportunity | Apply by July 12 

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between scholars working in largely disconnected fields who might together change the course of climate change’s impact on human health. Over the next two years, the fund will dedicate $1M to supporting small, early-stage grants of $2,500 - $50,000 toward achieving this goal.

Justice40 Hub Outreach Coordinator - DeepSouth Center for Environmental Justice
Paid Opportunity | Reach Out Today 
The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice is seeking 7 individuals to support Justice40 programming as Hub Outreach Coordinators. The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice and the Bullard Center for Environmental & Climate Justice at Texas Southern University have organized 22 Regional Hubs in 10 U.S. states that will be managed by leaders of community-based organizations. 22 Regional Hub Leaders have received training that will help bolster the capacity of community-based organizations to secure funding for environmental justice projects in their communities.

North America Assessment of Biodiversity and Climate Change Report
Request for Comments | Comment Today
The Notice seeks open-ended comments on a draft prospectus for the assessment, nominations (including self-nominations) to serve as assessment author/participants, and expressions of interest to serve on the assessment Guidance Committee. Both Guidance Committee members and Assessment Authors will represent a diversity of relevant technical, policy, and management expertise in biodiversity and climate change.

Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit Call for Content
Topic Submission | Complete Today
Second Nature is looking for submissions on how the interaction, dialogue, brainstorming, and solution sourcing at the Summit can best meet the needs and any content contributors that should be included in their program. Their goal is to provide an inclusive platform for speakers and participants to bring diverse identities, life experiences, and professional expertise to the event.

UCSD Climate Activism Hotspots
Information Sharing Opportunity | Complete Today
A team from the Seventh College Synthesis program at the University of California San Diego is creating a climate map visualizer website to increase awareness of surrounding the climate situation as well as encourage involvement within the community.

The RISE Challenge
Learning Opportunity | Reach Out Today
Students learn how to increase resilience to natural hazards where they live. Along the way, they work with community members to understand context and develop solutions to problems they see. Each spring, students can submit their ideas to the RISE Challenge. Approved action plans receive funding and students implement their plan! As they go, students create an Action Story to become eligible to present their project at the RISE Challenge Summit and compete for prize money.

Request for Case Studies on Bioremediation
RFCS | Reach Out Today
Lowcountry Alliance for Model Communities is looking for examples from around the country on how nature has been used for bioremediation, particularly to help filter contaminants during flood events. If you have an example to share, email Omar Muhammad at muhammade@charleston-sc.gov.

Climate Adaptation Technical Assistance Survey 
Feedback Opportunity | Help Today 
Your insight will help shape the outcomes of this effort and influence the development of an RHMAP and technical assistance initiatives in the future.

Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund
Funding Opportunity | Apply by July 19
The Fund aims to strengthen the resilience of Canadian communities through investments in infrastructure projects, including natural infrastructure projects, enabling them to better manage the current and future risks associated with natural hazards, such as floods, wildfires and droughts.

Severe Weather and Climate Change: A Reference Handbook Essay Opportunity 
Written Contribution | Reach out today 
This is an opportunity to address controversy or take a stand on the topic of Severe Weather and Climate Change. Five to ten contributors will include a 1000-1500 word essay and will be given a $100 stipend.  The audience is high school, college, and the lay public.  Essays must be original (not previously published articles). Contact Maria Groves at mgroves1@weber.edu for more information.

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