Adaptive Capacities for Transformation (ACT) Initiative: New Orleans
The Adaptive Capacities for Transformation Initiative (ACT): New Orleans is a multi-phase effort that seeks to build the capacity of communities in New Orleans to collaborate on shared disaster-related priorities that affect their health and resilience.
Recipient announcements
January 20, 2026
Crescent City Connection Bridge carries traffic over the Mississippi River into New Orleans at night
ACT New Orleans 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 New Orleans 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
- 17th Ward Resiliency Plan: Community-Driven Design to Improve the Health and Wealth of OUR Neighborhood (OURWARD)
- Planning Local Actions for Networked Solutions in Greater New Orleans (PLANS GNO)
- Catalyzing Green Infrastructure Implementation Through the Southeast Louisiana Adaptation Forum
- A Hurricanes Learning Ecosystem: Scaling Education for Collective Resilience
- Creating the Next Generation of Disaster Data Tools to Support Nonprofits, Foundations, and Government Agencies