Webinar: Bureau of Indian Affairs Tribal Climate Resilience Program

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) has announced the availability of funding through the Tribal Climate Resilience Program. Please visit the following link for more information: Click HERE.
Proposals are due Friday, April 23, 2021.

The Tribal Climate Resilience Program supports Tribes preparing for climate change that impacts tribal treaty and trust resources, economies, infrastructure, and human health and safety. The Program will also provide funding for projects that support Tribal resilience and ocean and coastal management planning.

During this webinar, BIA provided information about available funding for Tribal activities that support Tribal climate adaptation and resilience planning, ocean and coastal management planning, and relocation, managed retreat, or protect-in-place planning and design activities for coastal and riverine communities.

Webinar: Grant writing 101: Access More Funding for Your Climate Change Activities

This webinar covers the fundamentals of writing a competitive funding proposal so that your grant writing efforts are more effective and bring in more dollars. The emphasis will be on climate change programming (vulnerability assessments, adaptation planning, or risk assessment). Objectives include: 1) familiarize participants with the grant writing process 2) provide resources for climate-related funding and 3) support shared learning and build community.

This panel discussion features two film participants and the co-director of the film who discuss Tribal climate adaptation, mitigation efforts, and more.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is pleased to announce the availability of funding to support the hiring of Tribal Climate Resilience Liaisons in Alaska, the Northwest, and the Southwest through the BIA's Tribal Resilience Program (Program). Eligible applicants include tribal non-profit, non-governmental organizations and tribally-controlled colleges or universities (TCUs) that serve federally-recognized tribes. Other entities may participate as sub-grantees. The solicitation is available on grants.gov, and named BIA-2021-TCRP: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=334752

This is the first webinar in a series focused on the Status of Tribes and Climate Change (STACC) report, a new report written by a working group and convened by the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP) Tribes & Climate Change Program. STACC seeks to celebrate and honor the voices of Indigenous peoples across the U.S. to increase understanding of Tribal lifeways, cultures, and worldviews; the climate change impacts Tribes are experiencing; the solutions they are implementing; and ways that all of us can support Tribes in adapting to our changing world.

Over 90 authors from different entities including the authors of 34 personal Tribal narratives contributed to the publication of the first STACC Report. This report was the first of its kind and was written for diverse audiences including Tribal managers, leaders, and community members; the authors of future National Climate Assessments; federal and state agencies and decision makers; and non-governmental organizations. We are pleased that our following relatives and colleagues were able to join us.

• Dara Marks-Marino, WattTime, Environmental Justice Analyst & former ITEP team member and STACC Report Lead
• Kelsey Morales, ITEP Sr. Community Program Coordinator and STACC report co-author
• Kyle Whyte, PhD - Professor of Environment & Sustainability & George Willis Pack Professor - University of Michigan and STACC Report Lead Author
• Rachael Novak, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Tribal Resilience Coordinator, BIA Tribal Climate Resilience Program and STACC report co-author
• Coral Avery, Natural Resource Specialist-BIA Tribal Climate Resilience Program and Tribal Youth & Climate Liaison, Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center and STACC report co-author

Join us for this webinar that will be focused on the latest funding opportunity from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) who are announcing the availability of funding to support the hiring of Tribal Climate Resilience Liaisons in the North Central, the Midwest, and the Northeast/Southeast (combined) Regions of the DOI Climate Adaptation Science Centers through cooperative agreements with the BIA's Tribal Climate Resilience Program (Program). Eligible applicants include tribal non-profit, non-governmental organizations and tribally-controlled colleges or universities (TCUs) that serve federally-recognized tribes. Other entities may participate as sub-grantees. (The solicitation is available on grants.gov, and named TCRP-16241: www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=336222)

The BIA is collaborating with the Department of Interior (DOI) Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CASCs) to continue supporting tribal climate resilience needs and selected tribal organizations will enter into cooperative agreements with the BIA. This provides a mechanism for the BIA to provide the selected Tribal organizations with non-recurring funding for mutually agreed upon tasks in keeping with the climate science needs of the BIA and all tribal communities in the Northwest, Southwest, and Alaska CASC regions (learn more and see map of DOI CASCs here: www.usgs.gov/ecosystems/climate-adaptation-science-centers). *Applications are due December 17, 2021.*

For the third listening session, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is seeking input from Federally Recognized Tribes to understand the unmet infrastructure needs for community relocation, managed retreat, and protection-in-place issues in Alaska. This session will facilitate a discussion on the information and resources needed to address this issue across the Department of the Interior (DOI). Come join us in this interactive session!

Below are some general questions to help you begin to develop responses to share during the session:

1. What resources have you successfully obtained thus far?
2. What successes have you had?
3. What challenges have you experienced?
4. What needs do you have from the Federal government to address this issue?