2018 Innovation Grants

The Climigration Network awarded $7,500 to five organizations in 2018 for Concept Development Support for Community-Led Projects on Climate Relocation. The organizations used these awards to catalyze the development of a community-led project that addressed the difficult topic of climate relocation. The network is seeking funding to expand its community-led project grants.

alaska institute.png — **Alaska Institute for Justice**

Alaska Native communities worked together to develop community-led relocation guidelines to protect their human rights. *(Photo courtesy of Alaska Institute for Justice)*

**The University of New Hampshire**

Scientists, professional actors, and facilitators used applied theater to help improve communication and understanding in communities facing climate relocation as a result of a changing climate. (*Photo: Citizen science in action. Courtesy of New Hampshire Sea Grant)*

**The Lowlander Center** *(Louisiana)*

The center developed a collaborative effort to design a dialogue between Bayou-Lowlands “sending communities” and inland-high ground “receiving communities.” *(Photo: Point au Chien gathering. Credit Alessandra Jerolleman)*

SHEA weather photo contest runner up.jpg — **The Seabrook-Hamptons Estuary Alliance** (*New Hampshire*)

The alliance took the first steps toward convening a community-wide conversation about climate relocation in the Town of Hampton. (*Runner-up in the “Weather” category of SHEA’s 2016 photo contest. Photo by Ronald Grant, courtesy of SHEA)*

A community voice_Louisiana_AA.jpeg — **The Anthropocene Alliance***(Texas, Florida, New York)*

Resident leaders in four flood-prone, marginalized communities explored ways to discuss climate relocation with their neighbors. *(Photo: A community voice in Louisiana. Courtesy of Anthropocene Alliance)*

Representatives from these organizations shared lessons learned in this recording.

The 2018 award program was made possible through a partnership with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the generous support of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Banner photo credit: "Shishmaref- Erin (53) edit" by Bering Land Bridge National Preserve is licensed under CC BY 2.0