Adapting Together

About This Project

Adapting Together is a new program intended to support communities of the Great Bay Watershed as they adapt to a changing climate. Beginning in 2025, the program will fund projects that help communities increase their capacity to address climate resilience in a way that is socially just and equitable, while allowing people and natural ecosystems to thrive. The planning team is currently working with communities and partners to ensure their experience, knowledge, and needs inform program design and management.

New Hampshire towns and cities already experience the impacts of climate change, including sea level rise, erosion, extreme precipitation, freshwater flooding, and severe heat. These impacts are expected to increase in frequency and severity. Municipal leaders, non-governmental organizations, public agencies, and others need support to adapt to, and mitigate, those risks in ways that benefit all community members and the natural places they live in.

The planning team engaged an advisory committee composed of people with knowledge of the assistance needed for climate resilience, are familiar with the social fabric of New Hampshire communities. In spring of 2024, the planning team is convening workgroups composed of assistance providers and community representatives to explore shared goals and values and prioritize collaboration opportunities that honor community capacity and make best use of available resources and expertise. These conversations across the watershed will inform focus areas for the program and its administration.

This project is supported by the Great Bay 2030 partnership, which is funded by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.