Funding

The RAFT Funding Sources

The first year of research for The RAFT was conducted in the 2015-2016 academic year by the Institute for Engagement & Negotiation at the University of Virginia (UVA) in collaboration with the Virginia Coastal Policy Center (VCPC) at William & Mary Law School. The RAFT was officially launched by a 2016 Restoration and Community Stewardship grant by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF). This grant enabled completion of the Scorecard and testing The RAFT process with three pilot communities in three different coastal planning districts. Since then, the project has received a variety of grants: 

  • Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2017- Present  
  • Virginia Environmental Endowment, Virginia Program, 2017- Present  
  • University of Virginia Environmental Institute, formerly Environmental Resilience Institute, 2018- Present 
  • Jessie Ball duPont Fund, 2019- Present 
  • Agua Fund, 2022- Present
  • Virginia Sea Grant Adaptation and Resilience Program, 2017-2024
  • Natural Hazards Center, Public Health Disaster Research Award Program, 2022-2024 
  • University of Virginia School of Architecture, Faculty Summer Research Program, 2018, 2022 
  • Commonwealth Center for Recurrent Flooding Resiliency, 2021-2022 
  • Anonymous, 2018-2019  
  • National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Restoration and Community Stewardship Grant, 2016- 2018 

This website, Task # 92.03 was funded by the Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program at the Department of Environmental Quality through Grant # NA17NOS4190152 
of the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as amended. The views expressed
herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA, or any of its subagencies.

This project is currently a partnership between the Institute for Engagement & Negotiation at the University of Virginia, the Institute for Coastal Adaptation and Resilience at Old Dominion University, and the Center for Coastal Studies at Virginia Tech. The former Virginia Coastal Policy Center at the William & Mary Law School participated in this partnership from 2015 until June 2023.

 

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