The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is leading a group of national foundations to investigate the state of the climate adaptation field and opportunities for transformative giving. We were delighted to have been asked to prepare a scan of the American resilience field. Packard leaders delivered a portion of the work to the White House in November 2024.

Climate Resilience Scan, “The Tasks of Now: Toward a New Era in Climate Resilience Building”

Appendices:

Defining Climate Resilience

Strategies and Principles to Guide the Selection of Climate Resilience Projects Including Implementation Risks and Challenges

Climate Resilience Scan Key Messages

Interviewees

The Rising to the Challenge, Together Report

There is a significant gap between the size of the climate challenge and efforts to address its impacts. The root causes of climate change, environmental injustice, and racial inequity are the same. To rise to the challenge, the adaptation field must grow rapidly in size, scope, and sophistication and must prioritize the most marginalized.

We look forward to creating opportunities to collaborate as we rise to the challenge of accelerating and scaling up adaptation while blazing transformative paths to an equitable, resilient future.

We invite you to peruse the report, a seminal review and critical assessment of the state of the American climate adaptation field, along with the report’s its key features and recommendations tailored to your sector.

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In 2019, authors Moser and Coffee received follow-on funding from The Kresge Foundation to further implementation of the report’s recommendations and held a workshop about transformative climate change resilience. In 2022, authors Moser and Coffee led a symposium taking the pulse of the field.