True Resilience: Using a Neighborhood’s Stormwater Challenges to Build Community

Over the past five years, the Community Ecology Institute has worked in close collaboration with multiple funding and community partners to improve flooding resilience in the neighborhood surrounding its Freetown Farm location. This presentation will cover the stormwater challenge we inherited, how we secured hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to address them, and the best management practices we installed at our property and surrounding area. This session will also share how we collaborated with numerous community members and contractors to achieve our stormwater goals, our continued stormwater challenges, and strategies a wide range of individuals and organizations can apply to take action around stormwater issues.