Our goal is to enhance communities’ abilities to adapt and withstand disasters to be more resilient.

Fellows will complete the following 4 main activities:

• Receive Grant: Up to 8 grantees will receive $15,000-20,000 to enhance community resilience with a project of your choosing.

• Participate in Study: Help us capture your knowledge as experts by experience in our study

• Receive Training: One organizational representative will participate in our equitable disaster resilience-module training course.

• • This training course will incorporate material from Tulane’s globally recognized Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy curriculum and additional material will be drawn from various reputable sources to specifically address issues identified through the participatory research. These multidisciplinary and evidence-based modules will include the following disaster resilience and leadership topics:

1. 1. 1. Human and Social Factors
      2. Economics
      3. Environment and Infrastructure
      4. Disaster Operations
      5. Measurement and Evaluation, and
      6. Research and Grant Writing

• • The goal of these tailored training modules will be to increase equitable disaster resilience in communities, households and individuals. This will be done in a targeted way through the development of local leadership, who upon completing the course, will be better equipped to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters.

• Grant Writing: Fellows will be aided in the creation of an additional grant proposal and in seeking out potential funders.
  • Grantees will also each be aided in developing and seeking out potential funders for a grant proposal which will act as a culminating piece of the fellowship. Through this process fellows will enhance their familiarity with seeking out funding for their communities and preparing competitive grant proposals to increase equitable disaster resilience for all.

CEDR seeks to foster community ties not only between itself and the community, but between community organizations, creating a “resilience hub” where information and resources can be shared between organizations to increase the strength, breadth, and depth of social networks that can be utilized to better prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters.

CEDR previously designed and carried out a grant fellowship program to enhance community disaster resilience. Learn about the development process and what that program looked like here.

Please note this fellowship is currently not accepting applicants. If you would like to be notified if funding is secured and the fellowship is reopened, sign up for our listserv.