Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Resilient Schools Consortium (RiSC) Program","Research Foundation of CUNY / Brooklyn College","2016: ELG for Community Resilience to Extreme Weather Events and Environmental Hazards",2016,NA16SEC0080004,"$498,570","Brett Branco","New York",Brooklyn,Kings,NY09,"40.63179, -73.95342","2016-10-01T00:00:00 - 2021-03-31T00:00:00","Brooklyn College and the National Wildlife Federation Eco-Schools USA program in New York City created The Resilient Schools Consortium (RiSC) Program to increase the environmental literacy of middle school and high school students while providing opportunities for their voices to be heard. The City's long-term planning document, OneNYC, set forth a vision for a resilient city without specifying a role for students or including specific plans for their schools. This project addressed this gap by allowing students to interact with city, state and federal officials and resilience practitioners and present their ideas for resilience guidelines for NYC Public Schools. An active-learning RiSC Curriculum was developed by two middle school teachers in collaboration with their peers and the project team. The curriculum is available at https://riscnyc.org. RiSC teams at six middle schools and high schools used the curriculum to follow the UC Climate Resilience Toolkit’s Steps to Resilience. They learned about climate change and extreme weather, the vulnerability of their schools and their communities, options for addressing the risks, planned, and prioritized action, and executed small scale resilience projects on their school grounds when possible. Students were able to share what they had learned and have dialogue with professionals from government agencies and non-governmental about actions and solutions at two RiSC summits in June 2018 and June 2019. The RiSC program directly reached over 200 NYC public schools students through direct participation on the RiSC teams or RiSC-sponsored events, and indirectly reached hundreds more through the interaction of RiSC students with their peers. RiSC students were highly motivated by the program’s focus on action and the opportunity to speak directly to officials at the summits. The RiSC program also resulted in the creation of the New York City Climate and Resilience Education Taskforce (https://cretf.org), a group of NYC agencies, educators, and non-governmental organizations that are working towards providing climate and resilience education for all New York City students and their teachers. Key contributors to the success of the Resilient Schools Consortium program included New York Sea Grant and the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay.","New York City (NYC) Department of Education (DOE), NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO), National Sea Grant College Program / New York Sea Grant College Program, New York City Public Schools / John Dewey High School, New York City Public Schools / Rachel Carson High School for Coastal Studies, New York City Public Schools / Edward R. Murrow High School, New York City Public Schools / IS 228 David A. Boody, New York City Public Schools / IS 281 Joseph B.Cavallaro, New York City Public Schools / Mark Twain I.S. 239, Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay (SRI@JB), National Wildlife Federation (NWF) / Northeast Regional Center, New York City Public Schools / J.H.S. 088 Peter Rouget, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), New York City Public Schools / J.H.S. 223 The Montauk" "Convening Young Leaders for Climate Resilience in New York State","Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks / The Wild Center","2016: ELG for Community Resilience to Extreme Weather Events and Environmental Hazards",2017,NA17SEC0080002,"$493,868","Jen Kretser","New York","Tupper Lake",Franklin,NY21,"44.21975, -74.43862","2017-10-01T00:00:00 - 2021-12-30T23:59:59","The Wild Center’s Convening Young Leaders for Climate Resilience in New York State project increased climate literacy among high school students and teachers in New York City, the Catskills and the Adirondacks and gave students the leadership skills to help their communities respond to the impacts of climate change. The program worked with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Delaware County, the Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School in Brooklyn, and Action for the Climate Emergency (formerly known as Alliance for Climate Education), along with NOAA, the New York State Office of Climate Change and NYSERDA. In the three project regions of New York State, project partners established Youth Climate Summits and Youth Climate Leadership Practicums as well as built on educators’ interests through Teacher Climate Institutes and communicated climate change science and resilience through community outreach activities. By the conclusion of the project, we had worked directly with 3,126 high school students, 1,124 teachers and 2,333 members of the public, each of whom gained a better understanding of the impacts of climate change in New York State, a greater capacity to make informed decisions about the threats to their own regions, and a stronger connection with other community members and ongoing resiliency work. Convening Young Leaders demonstrated significant leadership in connecting with New York State’s Climate Smart Communities program. Seven small, rural communities across New York State engaged in Climate Smart Communities (CSC) due to youth involvement. This emerged after partners at the NYS Office of Climate Change offered to present on CSC at multiple Youth Climate Summits. Students attended the CSC workshop, incorporated CSC into their climate action plans, contacted their local government, and encouraged them to join the program. Reaching out to municipal officials and presenting at community board meetings were tremendous learning opportunities for students, regardless of whether the municipalities joined the program. In 2020, two particularly engaged communities, Saranac Lake and Homer, received Bronze Certification through the CSC program and were formally recognized for their accomplishments. ","NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO), Action for the Climate Emergency, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Delaware County, New York City Public Schools / Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) / Office of Climate Change (NYSOCC), NYC Outward Bound Schools, Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) of New York State, Finger Lakes Institute at Hobart and William Smith College, Climate Generation, Wyckoff House Museum"