Cooperative Agreement 72062321LA00001

This five-year, $260,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will fund research at the University of Oklahoma examining transactive resilience in disaster-affected communities. The university will analyze relationships among non-profits, community groups, government agencies, and infrastructure to better understand how distributed networks can bolster disaster resilience through peer-to-peer interactions. The research also aims to...

The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $199,434 Project Grant to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York to support the project "RAPID: OPERATIONALIZING THE CAPABILITIES APPROACH IN THE CONTEXT OF DISASTER RESILIENCE: MEASURING THE SOCIAL BURDEN OF INFRASTRUCTURE DISRUPTIONS" from May 15, 2021 through April 30, 2022. This Project Grant funding will support research to operationalize the Capabilities Approach framework...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $254,993 to Washington State University (WSU) to study the impacts of a strengths-based approach to communities. The 5-year research project from April 2025 to March 2030 seeks to operationalize, develop, and test a community-driven unit of measurement for community strength. The research will create a data-driven conceptual framework to understand community...

Criticality Sciences, Inc. will develop the NetResilience software tool under a $200,000 Cooperative Agreement from the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology. The award falls under NIST's Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620), which aims to stimulate technological innovation. NetResilience will provide scalable, cost-informed resilience metrics and mitigation guidance for networked infrastructure against catastrophic...

This $284,044 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program aims to assess the adaptability of resilience models across multiple scales to help communities facing disasters of increased intensity. The primary awardee, Northern Illinois University, will employ a mixed-method, multi-sited approach including public conferences, hazard mapping, risk perception surveys, and resilience plan workshops. The research aims to...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award in the amount of $454,236 to the University of Massachusetts Lowell will advance the field of resilience analytics and enhance the ability of civil infrastructure systems to withstand natural disasters. The key research objectives include: (i) Adapting statistical physics and discrete modeling techniques to predict the type, extent, and functional integrity of damage to structural and non-structural building...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration under the WIOA Dislocated Worker National Reserve Demonstration Grants program (CFDA 17.280) provides $991,759 to Resilience Force, a non-profit organization, to implement a sectoral strategy to create good climate resilience jobs and develop a skilled, scaled resilience workforce. The project, titled "A Good Jobs Blueprint in the Climate Resilience Economy", will recruit, train, and...

This $257,914 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will develop a national cyberinfrastructure called the Human Dynamics and Resilience Infrastructure (HNDS-I) to advance disaster resilience research. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing four new integrated databases from sources like social media and cell-phone mobility data...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $400,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Office for Coastal Management (CFDA 11.473) Federal Grant Program to the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM). The funding will enable RIDEM's Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) to implement projects, initiatives, and programs that increase the climate resilience of coastal communities within Rhode Island's coastal counties. Specifically,...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $588,063 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This 3-year grant, effective August 1, 2023, supports a collaborative research project to examine disparities in emotional resilience and mental health among mothers and their children facing high psychosocial stress. The research employs biocultural and...