GUEST ARTICLE: Here’s what U.S. companies must do to participate in $17 billion worth of upcoming government resilience work Grow Your Career, Organization Or City: Sponsor Rising Places to enhance economies, quality of life, health and housing for all Social responsible redeveloper to transform old shopping center and parking lot into an affordable, inclusive new neighborhood Non-profit partnership nears completion of 6-year, $1.35 million plan to revitalize neighborhood of a small Pennsylvania city This new Regenerative Agriculture Finance Fund intends to help revitalize American soil quality and restore our global climate This new “Climate Resilience Early Warning System” will help farmers prepare for impending climate-related disasters America’s rivers & streams are engineered to death: this $200 million program restores fish migration and aquatic connectivity $60 million in Brownfield Remediation Grants to revitalize Ohio communities by cleaning and redeveloping 78 contaminated sites African-American neighborhood celebrates $20 million dedicated to redeveloping and revitalizing a struggling shopping center This “Cool Community Project” hopes to increase both quality of life and climate resilience by reducing urban heat islands These three California forest and watershed restoration projects just landed a total of $6.7 million in federal funding This U.S. state is offering $10 million to revitalize communities and tourism via green infrastructure projects that restore lakes The nationwide Rural Partners Network is launched to provide resources for revitalizing rural American communities In coastal Louisiana, a 300-acre ecological restoration project is completed near a town that was completely destroyed in 2005 Restoration Economy: 13 building renovation and brownfields projects get $32.85 million to help revitalize Pennsylvania communities Maryland’s unique new legislation is national model, designed to boost environmental restoration without boosting taxes Ecologically-important sea urchins are dying off (again), but Florida researchers are now breeding them for restoration Camden seeks to shuck its revitalization-resistant reputation by reviving a corridor via $10 million infrastructure renovation China’s tea and food export companies celebrate the success of the government’s national Rural Revitalization Strategy Residential, brownfield-based neighborhood revitalization project–plus 161 new jobs–are now coming to southeast Michigan Beautiful new stormwater facility in California will help restore river & estuary; wins award for sustainable infrastructure An abandoned industrial area is repurposed, renewed & reconnected as an “Art & Creative Park” to revitalize this urban district New partnership of governments, non-profits & university to restore at least 40 globally-significant island ecosystems by 2030 In Ottawa, a university partnership renovated & expanded a public art gallery to reconnect and help revitalize this downtown district This $60 million redevelopment is creating affordable housing to help revitalize an Opportunity Zone in downtown Sacramento State, city and private firms partnered to restore and reuse this historic convent as affordable and supportive housing $1 billion “America the Beautiful Challenge” links federal environmental restoration investments to philanthropic contributions Utah raises a record $4.2 million for wildlife habitat restoration from non-profit groups via state’s conservation permit system Revitalizing the Revitalization: Denver kicks off the renovation of its most successful downtown revitalization project Resilient Prosperity: This $3 billion will help U.S. communities recover from disasters and build inclusive climate resilience
