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Launched in 2017, after the development of the Community-Driven Climate Resilience Planning (CRCRP) Framework, the National Association of Climate Resilience Planners (NACRP) is a national network of community-driven planning facilitators, grassroots organizers, and multi-sector partners that fosters effective community-driven racial and climate justice solutions through training, peer learning, referrals, and capacity-building.
The CDCRP Framework and NACRP are part of an emerging community of practice and ecosystem of aligned practitioners working together to shift, subvert, and ultimately replace the top-down planning paradigm. For more information about the NACRP network, including membership benefits and how to join the network, visit https://www.nacrp.org/.
VPS is a quarterly four-part virtual series designed to build capacity for community-driven planning among facilitators, organizers, leaders, and educators who are accountable to Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Asian/Pacific Islander (API) communities. VPS offerings are part of a larger effort to cultivate a community of practice and facilitator referral network within the field of community-driven planning.
This series is sponsored by People’s Climate Innovation Center and the National Association of Climate Resilience Planners (NACRP), in partnership with Facilitating Power. Our content and approach is derived from the Community-Driven Climate Resilience Planning Framework, with input from NACRP members, facilitators, advisors, and core partners.
Registration for the 2023-2024 VPS series is now open! Register here.
The next VPS session of the 2023-2024 series is scheduled for August 22! You may register for the session individually or register for the entire series. Each session is $100. Learn more about the offerings and register to attend.
In January 2023, NACRP launched the Facilitator Certification Program for NACRP members and VISION | POWER | SOLUTIONS alumni who are actively engaged in community organizing. This training is intended to support participants with facilitation skill development, peer support, project mentorship, and applied practice of community-driven resilience planning. The vision for this certification program is to see hundreds of trained and supported community-based facilitators across the country asserting community-driven climate planning as the norm and shifting away from a top-down paradigm of local planning.
As part of successful completion of the 9-month training and all program activities, participants will be eligible to become part of NACRP’s national facilitator network and receive referrals to community-driven facilitation opportunities that come into NACRP. The purpose of the referral network is to ensure that localities are able to connect with, and contract, trained facilitators who are accountable to frontline communities in their region and have real-world experience facilitating community-driven planning processes.
Learn more about the program and application requirements.
Applications are now OPEN for the 2025 Facilitator Certification Cohort! Apply HERE. The application will be open from August 22 - September 20, 2024. Planning projects must be within the U.S. or U.S. Territories. For questions, please email nacrp@climateinnovation.net.
In order to continue to build the field of practice of community-driven planning and evolve tools, models, and approaches, we need more on-the-ground examples and stories from across the country. We also recognize the immense personal energy it takes for individuals organizing and facilitating community-driven processes and the need for support for their sustainability in this work.
To help meet these needs, the NACRP launched its Community-Driven Planning Fund in spring 2024, which will support community-driven planning processes that are governed by community-driven planners and facilitators. Each quarter, NACRP members will be able to submit proposals for funding for up to $30,000 in order to resource communities and/or facilitators accountable to frontline communities to advance a community-driven planning process.
People’s Climate Innovation Center coordinates and administers the Fund and NACRP members, functioning as Fund Advisors, govern the Fund grantee selection process. Learn more about the Fund, eligibility, and how to apply.
Fall Cycle Application Deadline: September 6, 2024
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