Technical Assistance Program to Help Great Lakes Coastal Communities
ASFPM announces launch of the Strengthening Coastal Communities Resilience in the Great Lakes Region Challenge!
With changing lake levels, heavier precipitation, and more people living in flood-prone areas, an increasing number of coastal communities in the Great Lakes region are affected by flooding, disrupting coastal economies and degrading wildlife habitat.
ASFPM and its partners – the American Planning Association, Coastal States Organization, and
Great Lakes Sea Grant Network via Wisconsin Sea Grant – have designed the Strengthening
Coastal Communities Resilience Challenge to help communities develop policies and plans to improve their community’s resilience to coastal flooding, while building their knowledge
and understanding of the tools available to assist them.
The Challenge invites U.S. Great Lakes coastal communities with populations of less than
250,000 from NOAA-defined coastal shoreline counties to form multidisciplinary teams to
apply to join a one-year technical assistance program. Participating communities will leave
the program with:
- One coastal flooding vulnerability self-assessment,
- A set of planning scenarios,
- At least one identified natural or nature-based project for implementation,
- One action plan,
- At least two identified potential funding source(s) to support its implementation,
- Access to a regional community of practice, and
- Improved hard and soft skills around coastal resilience.
Full program details and a link to the application are available at no.floods.org/GLchallenge.
Applications are due November 9, 2022, at 11:59pm ET.
We will host a webinar on October 19, 2022, 4-5pm ET to preview the Challenge, provide
more information on the technical assistance that will be provided, and answer any questions
applicants may have. Registration for the webinar is free and open now.
ASFPM will notify teams if they were selected or not the week of December 5, 2022. Teams will
be publicly announced the following week on December 12, 2022.
Questions? Contact Jenna Moran at jenna@floods.org.
This project is funded by a NFWF National Coastal Resilience Fund Grant.
