Building Municipal Capacity for Coastal Resilience Planning in Rural Alaska

Recipient: Alaska Municipal League - Juneau, AK

Grant Amount: $819,200 Total Project Amount: $869,200

This award will increase the capacity of Alaska’s coastal communities to mitigate and proactively adapt to impacts of a changing climate through interjurisdictional coordination, training, feasibility studies, stakeholder engagement, education and outreach. The project will establish a cohort of five to 10 local resilience planning committees to conduct site feasibility studies identifying coastal resilience solutions, with a focus on nature-based approaches.

For more information on the grant program funding this project, please visit the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s website.