Congratulations to the Round One Community-Driven Planning Fund Recipients!

The Community-Driven Planning Fund from the National Association of Climate Resilience Planners (NACRP), a core program of People’s Climate Innovation Center, launched in March 2024 and is dedicated to supporting community-driven planning processes that are governed by community-driven planners, organizers, and facilitators. These grants are intended to seed projects and resource planners, organizers, and facilitators accountable to frontline communities to advance a community-driven planning process. Round one awarded four grants to member-led projects.

Read our full announcement here

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2024 Round One Recipients: 

Deep Space Mind 215, Pentridge Children’s Garden, Philadelphia, PA

These funds will support the reactivation of Pentridge Children's Garden as a site of community care, healing, and skill building around land stewardship and preservation. Starting in the summer of 2024, Pentridge Children's Garden will continue partnerships with key community members to identify and address knowledge gaps by facilitating neighborhood-based training and community building. Under the guidance of the community mental health collective, Deep Space Mind 215, PCG will increase neighborhood efficacy and capacity around land stewardship, collective mental health, and community care, developing the garden's security and stability in the West Philadelphia area.

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Foundation for Intentional Community, Sankofa Village, Arkansas

The grant will support a community-driven planning process (CDPP) that will shape the priorities of our new Conservation+Community Land Trust (CCLT). We are using the CCLT model as an intentional approach to build community wealth, increase access to affordable and multigenerational housing, support a Black-led local food system, and provide access to land for healing and ceremony in Arkansas. Our CDPP includes sessions open to Black Arkansans, sessions specific to our more vulnerable/targeted kin, a retreat to review and analyze session data, and a celebration that serves as a space to report back and receive additional feedback before finalizing our 501c3 paperwork. The grant will be used to provide stipends for session facilitators and participants and to cover related costs such as childcare, food, photography/videography, supplies, and space rental.

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Festival Beach Food Forest, Austin, Texas

Festival Beach Food Forest Comunidad Circle will use the grant to execute a street canvassing campaign this summer and host at least three community driven planning engagements to inform the design for infrastructure in Phase 2 of their planning process.

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Baldwin House Community Collective, Washington, D.C.

Baldwin House will use grant funding to address immediate and time-sensitive needs to enable robust community participation in the design and planning process for the mutual aid hub being launched as we renovate the building, address the need for skilled facilitators to create containers for navigating conflict within the mutual aid ecosystem in which Baldwin House exists, and provide much-needed community care and respite after years of tireless organizing through a community garden and wellness retreat.

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