Communications Materials for Technical Assistance Providers
Ready to communicate, educate and engage with potential applicants and recipients looking to make climate-resilient investments? The materials on this page can help technical assistance providers convey the importance of adaptation and resilience to the overall success of a project — before, during and after applying for federal funding.
The suite of communications materials below are intended to equip potential applicants and recipients with basic knowledge of these core topics. Some of the materials allow for customization based on the goals of a technical assistance provider and the needs of their client base.
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Communications Topics
The communications materials on this page can help technical assistance providers share succinct but impactful information on a variety of climate-related topics.
Considering Climate Adaptation and Resilience
Demonstrate how climate adaptation and resilience are defined, why they are important for applicants or recipients to consider when developing a project and the main steps that project proponents could take to create a climate-resilient investment from start to finish. These resources also show how to advance the resilience of a project with meaningful input of diverse project partners and community members. Learn more about climate adaptation at EPA.
Assessing and Accounting for Climate Risk
Communicate the key steps that applicants and recipients could take to address climate change risks throughout a project’s lifecycle. These resources highlight the importance of addressing current and future climate risks during project planning and implementation to build overall adaptive capacity. Show how climate risk assessment is an iterative process that should be performed regularly throughout the project implementation phase. Find climate risk assessment resources.
Advancing Meaningful Engagement
Help applicants and recipients understand the benefits of engaging with diverse project partners and community members, particularly those most overburdened and underserved. These resources highlight how inclusive engagement practices can enhance the project planning process, the development of funding applications and long-term project implementation. Learn more about meaningful engagement.
Infographics
Technical assistance providers can use these infographics to help introduce and explain specific topics that are relevant to applying for, developing and implementing climate-resilient projects.
- Invest in Building Community Resilience to Climate Change (pdf)
- How to Assess Your Project's Climate Risk (pdf)
- How Meaningful Engagement and Community-Driven Solutions Can Improve Your Climate Adaptation and Resilience Projects (pdf)
- Environmental and Climate Impacts of Wasted Food Graphics
Outreach Materials
These outreach materials can help technical assistance providers connect with funding applicants and recipients through social media platforms and other virtual spaces. The social media packet can be customized to reach target audiences, depending on client needs and topics of interest. The CRAFT Handout may also be helpful in raising general awareness about climate adaptation and resilience resources available from EPA to support proposed projects.
- CRAFT Sample Social Media Packet (pdf)
- CRAFT Handout (pdf)
- Green Infrastructure for Climate Resiliency Brochure (pdf)
DISCLAIMER: These communication materials constitute a list of helpful examples and are not intended to prescribe when and how technical assistance providers or the Agency should undertake specific actions, nor does it provide methodologies for how to assess the implications of climate change. These materials are not a substitute for EPA’s statutory authorities or regulations, nor is it a regulation itself. These materials are also not policy guidance document.