June 20, 2023, NOAA launched the Climate Resilience Regional Challenge. Up to $575 million is available through this competitive grant program to help coastal communities increase their resilience to extreme weather events and impacts from climate change. The funds are provided by the Inflation Reduction Act. 

This is an unprecedented opportunity to transform our coasts, as the program is investing in  collaborative approaches to climate resilience using a regional approach, with an emphasis on equity, adaptation, and building enduring capacity. There are two separate, simultaneous tracks:

• Track One – Regional collaborative building and strategy development: $500,000 to $2 million, to be spent over five years, for each successful applicant; and
• Track Two – Implementation of resilience and adaptation actions: $15 million to $75 million, to be spent over five years, for each successful applicant.

People interested in additional information should visit this website: coast.noaa.gov/funding/ira/resilience-challenge. Letters of Intent are due by 11:59 pm Eastern Time on August 21, 2023. Awards will be announced in 2024. Questions about the program can be directed to [email protected].