Building Resilience to Extreme Weather in Northeast Ohio

Recipient: Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition
Funding Amount: $1,310,142

The Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition will establish a resilience hub of 30 community-based organizations in a region experiencing high poverty rates and climate change vulnerability. Through regional collaboration and local expertise, the coalition will address barriers to climate resilience, invest in climate literacy and public engagement, and secure funding to implement executable resilience projects. The project builds on longstanding efforts to address disproportionate impacts of extreme weather and flooding in the region while building capacity among newer community-based organizations, maximizing the breadth of community benefits.

For more information on the grant program funding this project, please visit the Inflation Reduction Act webpage. For more information on the Climate Resilience Regional Challenge, visit the Office for Coastal Management’s resilience challenge webpage.