About This Project
Adapting Together is a new initiative designed to support Great Bay Watershed communities as they adapt to climate change. Starting in 2025, the program hopes to fund projects that help communities increase their capacity to address climate resilience, ensuring both people and ecosystems can thrive. By prioritizing social justice and equity, Adapting Together aims to build a stronger, more resilient future for all. This program is funded by Great Bay 2030.
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. This program provides technical and financial support to carry out these needs.
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Phase 1: The Adapting Together workshop series held in the Spring of 2024
This series was a first step in co-designing a technical assistance program to advance community resilience in the Great Bay watershed. To connect people across the watershed, three workshops were held in Portsmouth, Rochester, and Kingston, and a focus group representing the upper watershed communities was held over Zoom. Cumulatively, the Adapting Together series was attended by 83 technical assistance providers, funders, residents, municipal staff, and nonprofits, representing 30 communities. The events were designed to bring people working in different fields together to share and learn how climate change will impact their work. Around the table, public health workers sat together with natural resource providers, municipalities, and recreation users. Please visit our recent blog post and/or the full report, both of which include workshop findings and considerations for developing the technical assistance program and collaborating across New Hampshire’s coastal watershed.
Phase 2: Seeking Additional Funding for 2025-2028
As a workgroup for the Great Bay 2030, the New Hampshire Coastal Adaptation Workgroup with support from PREP will seek funding to implement the technical assistance and funding program for 2025-2028.
With this funding, Adapting Together will foster more connected and community-driven efforts in the future by demonstrating the power of collaborative approaches to climate resilience as well as how engaging people from diverse backgrounds and sharing collective knowledge can drive meaningful, community-centered solutions to climate challenges.
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