Climate Resilience
Supporting communities to advance equitable solutions for preparing and adapting to climate change.
To withstand the impacts of climate change, communities must work together on just solutions that strengthen both physical and social infrastructure.
The climate crisis is here. Sea-level rise, heat waves , and increased precipitation are some of the climate impacts that are now commonplace in our state. Climate change worsens existing social, economic and health inequities, making it even more challenging for communities to prepare, adapt, or recover from climate-fueled disasters.
We believe that the communities most impacted by the climate crisis have the creative solutions that we need to protect, prepare, and prevent the most negative impacts of climate change.
We seek to partner with and support organizations, municipal and state agencies, advocates and coalitions that are striving to make communities more resilient and equitable. In addition to resourcing efforts focused exclusively on resilience, we welcome opportunities that align with Barr’s other climate strategies - clean energy and mobility - and its special initiative focused on the waterfront.
Grantmaking Priorities
Our goal is to increase capacity in Massachusetts to prepare for and adapt to the impacts of climate change.
- Build awareness and mobilize a diverse constituency for action on climate risks, impacts, and resilience strategies.
- Mobilize key stakeholders to advance equitable policies and resilience plans.
- Catalyze momentum through demonstration projects that integrate resilience into the fabric of cities.
Our goal is to increase capacity in Massachusetts to prepare for and adapt to the impacts of climate change.
- Build awareness and mobilize a diverse constituency for action on climate risks, impacts, and resilience strategies.
- Mobilize key stakeholders to advance equitable policies and resilience plans.
- Catalyze momentum through demonstration projects that integrate resilience into the fabric of cities.