CivicWell is a nonprofit supporting sustainable solutions and the leaders and communities that implement them. CivicWell knows that innovation happens when communities name their own challenges and define their own visions. CivicWell inspires, equips, connects, and cultivates civic leadership for local innovation and community change.

Since 1982, CivicWell have engaged local elected officials, government agencies, and community-based organizations through policy guidance, collaborative partnerships and coalitions, and direct assistance.

Climate Resolve is a Southern California based nonprofit organization that focuses on local solutions to global climate change, and works to achieve outcomes that bestow multiple benefits. For the past 9 years, Climate Resolve has been a leader in helping pass climate policy at the state and local levels, as well as taking on efforts to equitably implement those policies. Climate Resolve does this through coalition organizing with transportation and nature advocates, providing technical assistance on affordable housing projects, doing outreach on energy and water efficiency, and guiding environmental planning processes. Climate Resolve also works with partners to strategize on urban cooling solutions like cool roofs, cool pavement, connected tree canopies, landscaping, bus shelters, and more. Lastly, Climate Resolve communicates climate science to make local climate impacts relatable to everyone and ensure that solutions are actionable.

The nonpartisan Georgetown Climate Center seeks to advance effective climate and energy policies in the United States and serves as a resource to state and local communities that are working to cut carbon pollution and prepare for climate change. As part of Georgetown Law, the Center works extensively with government officials, academics, and an array of stakeholders. It analyzes the provisions of federal policy relevant to state and local government, works with states on developing innovative new policies, and encourages policymakers to learn from state experience. The Georgetown Climate Center recently launched the new and improved Adaptation Clearinghouse to help communities find the resources they need to prepare for climate change. The new system features an improved search interface, greater content curation, and new tools for partner organizations and websites.

Farallon Strategies helps build lasting relationships between our clients and stakeholders through strategy, technical assistance, and expert facilitation. Farallon helps clients establish a clear vision, actionable goals, and focused priorities. Farallon acknowledges that lasting solutions are formed from the ground-up, and helps create and activate networks to support communities and organizations to achieve policy and program goals.

The Local Government Sustainable Energy Coalition (LGSEC) works to enhance the role of local governments in California’s sustainable energy future by providing a collective voice for our members on statewide energy policy and programs. LGSEC has built the blueprint for California’s energy strategy through the formation of Local Government Partnerships, Regional Energy Networks, and Community Choice Aggregations. Together, we help make sustainable energy and resilience achievable for California’s local governments. Learn more about LGSEC and how to become a member at lgsec.org.

Resilient Cities Catalyst (RCC) is a global nonprofit organization that designs and manages multi-sector and multi-stakeholder resilience projects, plans, and processes at multiple scales. RCC’s vision is that cities, communities, and people–in particular those facing the most significant vulnerabilities–are safe, healthy and thriving in the face of everyday stresses and are able to recover more quickly and effectively after shocks. One of RCC’s flagship programs, the California Resilience Partnership (CRP), is a public-philanthropic effort that brings together multi-sector practitioners to increase investments in a pipeline of high impact projects that will build a more resilient and equitable state. CRP is collaboratively led by RCC alongside ARCCA. CRP works in regions statewide, bringing resources for local nonprofit and government partners to support project development–offering technical assistance, crowding in global best practices, and fostering collaborative knowledge exchange.

Rincon Consultants is a multi-disciplinary environmental science, planning, and engineering consulting firm that provides professional services to both government and industry. Our broad bench of skilled professionals have extensive experience in climate adaptation and resiliency planning; land use and hazard risk planning; natural resources and watershed assessment; resource conservation; climate action planning; GHG emissions analysis; CEQA compliance and streamlining; and equitable public engagement related to these services. Our approach focuses on well-designed solutions that respond to our clients’ specific needs in a cost-effective manner. Rincon has extensive experience in climate adaptation planning as well as related climate vulnerability assessments, local coastal programs, and general plan safety and environmental justice elements addressing climate hazards and risk to people, ecosystems, structures, and infrastructure. We’ve assisted numerous counties and cities throughout the state with climate adaptation, action, and implementation and have built cutting edge tools to help jurisdictions track and monitor progress over time.

The California State University (CSU) system is made up of 23 campuses across the state of California. In 2018, the CSU will initiate the development of a Systemwide Climate Action and Adaptation Plan that will synchronize existing campus and state level climate action and adaptation plans and standards. This plan will establish minimum standards for climate action and adaptation across the system using the best practices from existing campus plans and identify specific actions necessary to meet the CSU’s emission reduction goals. The adaptation plan will evaluate the sensitivity and severity of anticipated climate impacts to help campuses prioritize adaptation strategies to cope with anticipated climate impacts.