Community Ownership Model for the Design of Nature-Based Solutions Along the North Claiborne Corridor
Implementing Organization
Healthy Community Services
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$100,000
Known Leveraged Funding
$0
Funding Organization
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – Gulf Research Program (NASEM - GRP)
Funding Program
NASEM Gulf Research Program Grants
Details
Project Category
Science
Project Actions
Environmental Research
Targeted Resources
Project Description
Our project proposes to convene community-based organizations in at-risk communities and partners across local government agencies to develop a replicable, scaleable community-led model of envisioning and designing nature-based solutions (NBS) along the North Claiborne Avenue Corridor. Our chosen area includes the under-resourced communities that are connected by North Claiborne Avenue. We have begun building a network of engaged residents educated about NBS, creating a solid foundation for further catalyzing partnerships. The area is an economic, social, historical, and cultural thoroughfare, and heavy floods there often negatively impact the daily life of community members. This corridor is a major hurricane evacuation route for residents of Orleans, St. Bernard, and Plaquemines parishes. Through collaborating with our community organizations in our Water Wise Collective, we have created neighborhood networks to envision designs to alleviate flooding, reduce the urban heat island effect, and implement highly beneficial nature-based projects. We plan to expand our efforts and broaden our vision, networks, and access to resources by educating and engaging new community organizations in the targeted area and government stakeholder partners. Through hosting a community-led summit, we will facilitate a process for sharing our collective’s community visions and broadening the vision through collecting, compiling, and synthesizing data from community members and partners. Additionally, we intend to craft a proposal and identify a team to support Phase 2. We are ready to scale our efforts to recruit a diverse team to collectively address a widespread issue that plagues communities and government centering the community in the process.
Contact
Angela ChalkNone
achalk.hcs@gmail.com
Project Website
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