Title: empower: enabling meaningful progress for water equity and resilience through the greater new orleans regional water plan recipient: new orleans community support foundation project type:…

Title: empower: enabling meaningful progress for water equity and resilience through the greater new orleans regional water plan recipient: new orleans community support foundation project type: regional collaborative building and strategy development (track one) funding amount: $1,208,108 congressional district(s): LA-02 summary: this project builds on more than a decade of planning and collaboration across the greater new orleans region to adopt a holistic, adaptive water management vision that centers the leadership of black, indigenous, and people of color communities. This vision will enable greater cohesion in selecting community green infrastructure projects and ensure the investments address multiple climate hazards and realize multiple benefits. This project will result in 1) a regional approach to making key water management and climate adaptation data more accessible to the community; 2) a policy manual for holistic, adaptive management of green infrastructure projects; and 3) a public communications campaign that highlights the collaborative?s efforts and findings with media, events, workshops, and facilitated conversations about management efforts across the region.