Adaptive Capacities for Transformation (ACT) Initiative: Houston
The Adaptive Capacities for Transformation Initiative (ACT): Houston is a multi-phase effort that seeks to build the capacity of communities in Houston to collaborate on shared disaster-related priorities that affect their health and resilience.
Recipient announcements
January 20, 2026
ACT Houston Planning Grants
This grant opportunity supports ACT Participants in the collaborative planning of activities that advance ACT Priorities using science-based and community-driven inputs. Specifically, the goal of this grant opportunity is to build relationships for collaborations within Houston that can produce impactful solutions in Priority areas. This grant series supports Participants in (1) establishing a working group committed to advancing select Priorities and (2) developing a program/project idea(s) for place-based solutions that advance selected Priorities.
Awarded Projects
- From Silos to Community-Centered Systems: Transforming Disaster Data and Communications Regionwide
- Resource Access Planning in Disaster (RAPID)
- Weathering the Storm Together: A Community-Based Planning Initiative to Develop Mental Health Resources for Houston
- Strengthening Community Disaster Planning Capacity in Harris County
- Closing the Data-to-Action Gap: Turning Survivor Reports into Coordinated Recovery with the Connective Survey