Institute For Sustainable Communities

The partnership for resilient communities (prc), originally launched in 2019 with financial support from the jpb foundation, is helping to transform the national urban climate resilience field. Prc is building the capacity of 14 black and brown-led community-based organizations (cbos) to develop green infrastructure using clean and renewable energy (like solar) to strengthen their community's capability to be less impacted by and recover from extreme weather events and natural disasters exacerbated by climate change. Isc is providing infrastructure to each participating organization in this intensive capacity-building program in the form of technical assistance and grant funding. The program has created a nationwide network that builds influence for people of color-led cbos while improving the design and the dismantling energy insecurity in communities of color (deicc) began in 2022.

Isc was named as the eastern national grantmaker, as part of a bifurcated award for passthrough grantmaking activities authorized by caa 138(b). Award grant funds will enable the grantmaker to perform the tasks needed to establish and carry out the proposed participatory governance, outreach, and system mobilization efforts for establishing the collection, review, selection, and distribution of the ej thriving communities subgrants. Through the isc team's extensive experience in grantmaking and providing technical support for equity-centered approaches that build environmental justice outcomes, they will ensure that epa funds under the thriving community grantmaker program are channeled to communities that are most in need to address the health and environmental challenges.

The dismantling energy insecurity in communities of color (deicc) began in 2022 with the goal to activate community resilience and dismantle energy insecurity in 10 communities of color across the us through the development of solar community resilience hubs.

The advancing equitable building decarbonization (aebd) project purpose is to advance deep decarbonization and energy efficiency of buildings owned by people of color at three pilot locations and develop recommendations and best practices to scale this work.

Other programs in the u.s. To support the organization's mission to develop practical, lasting solutions that build climate-resilient communities by co-creating solutions with locally led organizations and connecting them with the resources needed to drive lasting change in communities facing the greatest environmental, economic and social issues.

Other programs in asia to support the sustainable development of micro, small and medium enterprise clusters in india by facilitating decarbonization and adoption of clean tech in the manufactoring sector; building a gender-equitable green workforce and designing and developing a scalable roadmap to advance a gender-equitable green workforce and clean tech deployment at a subnational level.