Use these Digital Coast and partner resources to learn what it takes to fund and finance projects designed to enhance coastal resilience. Topics include funding and financing strategies, how others are approaching this task, and information about the types of economic information that may be needed.
To learn more about the various types of coastal resilience projects, visit this resource, Nature-Based Solutions for Coastal Hazards: The Basics, or consider this virtual training - Nature-Based Solutions for Coastal Hazards.
Understand the Basics
Learn about the different funding and financing strategies
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Digital Coast Training – Quick Reference
Funding and Financing: Options and Considerations for Coastal Resilience Projects
This handout introduces the types of funding and financing options you can consider for your project.
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Digital Coast Training – Recorded Webinar
Funding and Financing Coastal Resilience: The Basics
Learn about the options from the experts. This is the first training in a series and provides the foundation for future trainings on this topic. Hear project examples and helpful lessons learned.
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Partner Resource
Ready-to-Fund Resilience Toolkit
The goal of this guide, designed for people in local government and their partners, is to help people design projects more likely to get funding. The information shows different ways to make projects better. The techniques include updating policies, working with other organizations, using new ways to track funds, and changing internal operations.
Learn from Others
Access case studies and past webinars focused on a variety of funding and financing approaches
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Digital Coast Training – Recorded Webinar Series
Funding and Financing Coastal Resilience
Hear from the experts who will demystify this complex topic by sharing traditional and emerging approaches, project examples, and lessons learned.
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Digital Coast Training – Case Study
Resiliency Officer Helps Design an Environmental Impact Bond to Finance Community Resilience Projects
The focus is on Virginia's first ever environmental impact bond, which was used to help finance community resilience projects.
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Digital Coast Training – Case Study
Innovative Green Infrastructure Project Has Diverse Funding and Financing Portfolio
In this case study, a partnership of public and private organizations in Texas came together to pay for and maintain an innovative stormwater management project.
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Digital Coast Training – Case Study
On the Forefront of Nutrient Credit Trading Using Oysters: Lessons Learned
Case study that examines how Maryland used nutrient credit trading to meet water quality permit requirements and encourage the use of an oyster’s pollutant-filtering capabilities to remove nutrients from the water.
Dig Deeper
Economic information and considerations for supporting various funding and financing approaches
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Digital Coast Training – Quick Reference
Nature-Based Solutions: Benefits, Costs, and Economic Assessments
This bundle of resources provides information on the multiple benefits of various nature-based approaches; helps you estimate implementation and maintenance costs; and provides the basics needed to tell your community’s story in economic terms.
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Digital Coast Training – Quick Reference
Economic Approaches for Decision-Making
Explaining your project’s impact in dollars and cents can help build support and provide justification for funding and financing options. Some federal programs, for instance, require cost-benefit analyses as part of their application process.
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Digital Coast Training – Interactive Module
Green Infrastructure Effectiveness Database
This searchable database provides literature on various nature-based projects and their outcomes, including the economic data used to estimate project costs and benefits.
Explore Options
Resources focused on funding approaches for nature-based projects
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Partner Resource
Nature-based Solutions Funding Database
National Wildlife Federation’s interactive database for communities interested in pursuing federal funding or technical assistance for nature-based solutions.
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Partner Resource
Water Finance Clearinghouse
The U.S Environmental Protection Agency provides two searchable databases for communities needing information for water infrastructure projects. One database contains available funding sources, and the other contains reports, websites, and training on financing mechanisms and approaches.
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Partner Resource
Nature-Based Solutions Current Issues Webinar Series
View recorded webinars focused on the following topics: federal cost-benefit analysis policies for evaluating nature-based solutions; insights into various mechanisms used to pay for nature-based solutions; and cost and benefit estimations. The series is organized by the National Ecosystem Services Partnership and the Resilience Roadmap project.