February 1, 2025
As the latest round of wildfires began to engulf Southern California, an insightful article appeared in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. The article, co-authored in the weeks prior by members…
January 10, 2025
The CSCI is accepting grant applications to help communities accelerate their climate resilience plans and projects! “The grants can help communities no matter where they are in the resilience planning…
January 1, 2025
The new year brought a new structure to the Wildfire Resilience Funders, as the network now welcomes members and affiliates. “The network remains focused on helping philanthropic funders learn…
August 6, 2024
As CRF’s program officer for the Climate Smart Communities Initiative, I am thrilled to be able to share today’s announcement of the initiative’s first awards! For more on today’s awards,…
May 6, 2024
The Wildfire Resilience Funders convening in Fort Collins, Colorado left me feeling inspired by the people leading this work, connected to the great funder participants, and grateful…
May 3, 2024
Participatory grantmaking is a relatively new theory in the field of philanthropy. The CCRE put it into practice. The approach is based on the hypothesis that grantmaking programs are stronger…
May 2, 2024
As we begin reviewing applications for the first round of the CSCI’s competitive grantmaking program, I am excited about the months and years ahead. I had the pleasure of joining the…
May 26, 2023
The Wildfire Resilience Funders (WRF) convened our first official in-person meeting in Lake Tahoe May 22-24, 2023. The meeting was planned and organized by Climate Resilience Fund (CRF) staff, working…