Join ASAP's Climate Migration and Managed Retreat Group this Wednesday, August 28, from 4:00 - 5:00 PM ET! Scott Preston, with The Place Initiative, will discuss recreating a Climate Receiving Communities Certification and supporting climate migration preparedness at the municipal level. Learn more about the CMMR group, here ➡️ https://bit.ly/384QeK0. If you would like to join our member-led peer learning groups, learn more + join us today ➡️ https://bit.ly/3oTHIDn. #climateaction #climateadaptation #climatemigration #climatediscussion #peerlearning #climatechange #climatecertification
American Society of Adaptation Professionals
Environmental Services
NOW is the time for action. This is the place for YOU!
About us
ASAP connects and supports climate adaptation professionals, while advancing innovation in the field of climate change adaptation. Through ASAP’s website, affinity groups, webinars and meetings climate adaptation leaders interact, share what’s working, collaborate with their colleagues and build essential climate resilience for communities across the country.
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https://adaptationprofessionals.org/
External link for American Society of Adaptation Professionals
- Industry
- Environmental Services
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Specialties
- Climate Change Adaptation, Professional Networking, Climate Change Science, Leadership Training, Resource Sharing, Sustainability, and Community Resilience
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Detroit - Metro, US
Employees at American Society of Adaptation Professionals
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Check out the Climate Smart Communities Initiative ("CSCI")! This new initiative connects adaptation professionals with communities in need and accelerates the development of climate resilience plans and projects. Adaptation professionals can join the CSCI's searchable registry and benefit from funding, training, tools, and other resources. For more additional information about the initiative ➡️ https://bit.ly/3yOkx58. Follow the CSCI page or join the mailing list to get updates ➡️ https://bit.ly/46WcoYP! #adaptationprofessional #climateresilience #adaptation #climateadaptation #climateaction #climatefunding #climateinitiative #adaptationprofessionals
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💡 End your week with an exciting opportunity to engage with ASAP this Friday! The Professional Opportunities in Adaptation Group meets monthly and convenes those who are job searching, pivoting careers, or seeking other professional opportunities in the adaptation field. 📆 Friday, August 23, 2 – 3PM EST 🔗 https://bit.ly/3Z78LdN If you would like to join our member-led peer learning groups, learn more + join us today ➡️ https://bit.ly/3oTHIDn. #climateadaptation #climateaction #professionalnetworking #professionalnetwork #peerlearning
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🌱 Last week, ASAP's Training Specialist, Maria Dozier, led a special Climate Literacy Training alongside our partner Southeast Michigan Stewardship Coalition for the Coalition Summer Institute. The session allowed participants to consider the intersection their teaching work has with climate adaptation and highlighted the skills and passions that we, as individuals, can bring to climate change preparedness. Thank you to SEMIS for facilitating last week's workshop and to all of the participants! #climateadaptation #climateliteracy #professionaldevelopment #professionallearning #climateeducation #climateaction
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Make this your week to join a peer learning group at ASAP! R*ECO*NNECT meets THIS Tuesday, August 6 at 12 PM ET. This group is focused on strengthening connections to build personal resilience. R*ECO*NNECT offers ASAP members a monthly refuge of solace and support. Within this safe space, participants can turn inward to reconnect with ourselves, each other, and nature, and to explore and connect to the core of what drives each of us to undertake this essential but often heartbreaking work. 1️⃣ R*ECO*NNECT 🗓️ Tuesday, August 6. 12 PM – 1:30 PM ET 🔗 https://bit.ly/3BvX0mr 2️⃣ Private Sector Adaptation Professionals 🗓️ Wednesday, August 7, 4 PM - 5 PM ET 🔗 https://bit.ly/3IQhz23 3️⃣ Network of Networks 📆 Friday, August 9, 1 PM - 2 PM ET 🔗 https://bit.ly/3QmZhGn Not an ASAP Member yet? Join us today ➡️ https://bit.ly/3oTHIDn. #climateadaptation #climateaction #professionalnetworking #professionalnetwork #peerlearning
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📆 Join ASAP’s Policy Practice Group meeting on THIS Friday, August 2 at 1 pm ET/10 am PT. In this meeting, Massachusetts Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer will give an overview of the State’s approach to promoting resilience to climate change. Hoffer will address how Massachusetts’s governance structure impacts climate adaptation and resilience planning, how the state funds local resilience, and how to make adaptation efforts across the state even more connective and cohesive. Having served at the national level as Acting General Counsel and Principal Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at the beginning of the Biden-Harris Administration, Melissa will share perspectives from multiple levels of government on how to advance adaptation policy. We hope you can join us for this deep-dive presentation and discussion. Register today ➡️ https://bit.ly/3b2i2jH. Not an ASAP Member yet? Join us today ➡️ https://bit.ly/3oTHIDn. #climateadaptation #climateaction #peerlearning #policy #policypractice
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🚨 We are calling on the ASAP Network and #adaptation community to sign up to provide #technicalassistance to communities impacted by decades of structural environmental injustice. As a National Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Center, ASAP is committed to delivering extensive training, valuable resources, technical assistance (TA), and peer learning opportunities to disinvest communities impacted by environmental injustice. Technical assistance providers are needed to contribute their expertise in a range of services, including grant writing, training, data analysis, technical assistance for Native communities, financial management, and strategic planning, ensuring that community organizations are well-equipped. 🔗 Sign up to become a TCTAC technical assistance provider ➡️ https://bit.ly/4bMndgY or learn more about the TCTAC program ➡️ https://bit.ly/4c22ZQE. #climateadaptation #climatechange #climateaction #environmentaljustice #TA #TAprovider
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💡 We have three opportunities to engage with ASAP this week! Join the Climate Migration and Managed THIS WEDNESDAY, July 24, at 4 PM ET. This group serves as a discussion and networking space for those interested in topics related to climate migration and managed retreat, from the smaller scale to the larger, long-term national and international-level migration trends in light of climate projections and their broadly understood implications and impacts. 1️⃣ CMMR | Climate Migration and Managed Retreat 🗓️ Wednesday, July 24, 4 PM – 5 PM ET 🔗 https://bit.ly/384QeK0 2️⃣ Professional Opportunities in Adaptation 🗓️ Friday, July 26, 2 PM - 3 PM ET 🔗 https://bit.ly/3OdzcIY 3️⃣ JEDI Community of Practice 📆 Friday, July 26, 3 PM - 4 PM ET 🔗 https://bit.ly/3I4t43d Not an ASAP Member yet? Join us today ➡️ https://bit.ly/3oTHIDn. #climateadaptation #climateaction #professionalnetworking #professionalnetwork #peerlearning
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💡End your week with two exciting opportunities to engage with ASAP this week! 1️⃣ Network of Networks Join ASAP's Network of Networks Group as they explore the Climate Smart Communities Initiative with speakers Liz Tully, Program Officer, Climate Resilience Fund; Peter Schultz, Vice President, ICF; and John Nordgren, Managing Director, Climate Resilience Fund. 🗓️ Friday, July 11, 1 PM – 2 PM ET 🔗 https://bit.ly/3QmZhGn 2️⃣ Policy Practice Group ASAP's Policy Practice Group will have Annette Osso, sLEED AP, Managing Director of Resilient Virginia, to discuss Resilient Virginia’s initiative, the Resilient Virginia Collaborative Alliance for Central and Southwest Virginia, a collaboration with Virginia (Regional) Planning District Commissions. The program seeks to build regional capacity to address equity, economic, social, and climate challenges. 🗓️ Friday, July 11, 1 PM – 2 PM ET 🔗 https://bit.ly/3b2i2jH If you would like to join our member-led peer learning groups, learn more + join us today ➡️ https://bit.ly/3oTHIDn. #climateadaptation #climateaction #professionalnetworking #professionalnetwork #peerlearning
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📆 Join ASAP's Private Sector Adaptation Professionals Group Meeting TODAY, Wednesday, July 3, at 4 PM ET. The Private Sector Adaptation Professionals Group meets monthly to foster innovation and collaboration in the private sector climate services space. In this meeting, ASAP Member Brian Smoliak will give a 5-minute case study: “Land use in a warming climate: balancing agriculture, renewable energy, and conservation.” 🔗 If you would like to join this meeting, register here ➡️ https://bit.ly/3IQhz23 Not a member? Join ASAP today ➡️ https://bit.ly/3oTHIDn #climateadaptation #climateaction #professionalnetworking #professionalnetwork #peerlearning #networking