Watershed-Scale Climate Collaboration Toolkit

Collaboration is essential for successful climate adaptation (preparing for and responding to climate change impacts). Partnering across a watershed is an effective and impactful scale for tackling climate impacts. We are pleased to share this Watershed-Scale Climate Collaboration Toolkit to showcase stories from watershed-scale collaboratives in Massachusetts, and to inspire and support this work moving forward.

Overview of Watershed-Scale Climate Collaboration

This Overview Resource provides context for and highlights the benefits of watershed-scale climate collaborations. Partnering at the watershed-scale allows a vast problem to be brought down to a manageable size across an ecologically meaningful area, while still maintaining a large enough scale to be actionable.

StoryMap

Explore the watershed-scale collaboratives currently working across the state on our StoryMap!

Case Studies

In these resources: Centering Racial Equity in Authentic Community Engagement and Partnering on Community Engagement with Community-Based Organizations, Resilient Mystic Collaborative members share their experiences, so that other watershed-scale collaboratives might learn from their stories.

Videos

Thanks to our partners at Worcester Polytechnic Institute for creating these videos: Collaborating at the Watershed Scale to Tackle Climate Change and Stories From Watershed Collaboratives Across Massachusetts, and sharing experiences from organizers and members of watershed collaboratives.

Workshop Takeaways

This followup to our 2023 workshop on Funding for Watershed Collaboration includes summaries of what we heard along with recommendations and takeaways to provide a foundation for continued conversation about supporting collaborative capacity.

Thank You

This toolkit is supported by a grant from the Barr Foundation.