Hello Fireshed Members,
The Fireshed Coalition helps us learn from the experiences of communities across the Coalition landscape and inspires action towards a more wildfire adapted future. In many ways, communities serve as a toolbox full of perspectives, experiences, and creative approaches to new problems. The broader the perspectives and experiences in our Fireshed communities, the more robust our toolbox becomes, and the stronger and more resilient we are.
With this in mind, this week’s Wildfire Wednesday focuses on approaches that we are using to build our community toolbox and bring in new voices to the conversation about wildfire preparedness.
This Blog Contains:
An article about how ambassador approaches are making progress on wildfire adaptation nationwide
An introduction to the Santa Fe Fireshed Ambassador Program
An introduction to the FACNM Leader Program
The Coalitions and Collaboratives Action, Implementation, and Monitoring Grant Opportunity
Best,
Gabe
An Ambassador by Any Name Doth Broaden Wildfire Resilience
Porfirio Chavarria shares a fire scenario with a neighborhood. A Fireshed Ambassador did all of the work to bring neighbors together to learn about their wildfire risk and what they can do to reduce their risk.
A recent blog post by Rebecca Samulski, of Fire Adapted Colorado, describes the many ways that volunteer neighborhood leaders have been effective at motivating community wildfire mitigation nationwide. Across the country, these volunteer neighborhood leaders go by different names. Here in New Mexico we have a statewide program of FACNM Leaders and a Santa Fe-specific program of Fireshed Ambassadors.
To learn more about how these ambassador approaches are being used across the country, click here to read Rebecca’s recent blog post on FAC Net.
Santa Fe Fireshed Ambassador Program
Fireshed Ambassadors help to bring their community together for informative events like this Society of American Foresters fieldtrip of the Fireshed.
An ambassador approach recognizes that action needs to be motivated from the grassroots scale and tailored to individual communities. The Santa Fe Fireshed Neighborhood Ambassador program means engaging with your neighborhood to help them understand their wildfire risk and encouraging them to take action, and motivating residents to take action to reduce that risk.
We are actively building a network of ambassadors in and around Santa Fe and need more volunteers! If you are concerned about the wildfire risk in your neighborhood and want to do something please join us.
As an Ambassador, you will bring together your community to work collaboratively on wildfire preparedness, mitigate wildfire risk to your homes, and promote and support each other’s efforts and the Fireshed Coalition partners and your fellow ambassadors will be here to support you.
To learn more and join us at our next meeting click below.
https://www.santafefireshed.org/ambassador
Fire Adapted New Mexico’s (FACNM) Leader Program
Working collaboratively will help motivate your community to mitigate wildfire risk to your homes and promote and support each other’s efforts.
Similar to the ambassador program but at a state wide scale, FACNM’s Leader program seeks to connect people motivated in creating fire adapted communities across the state to foster networks and facilitate idea sharing.
If you are concerned about the wildfire risk in your community and want to join others working in their communities please join us.
Coalitions and Collaboratives Action, Implementation, and Monitoring (AIM) Grant
Coalitions and Collaboratives works to foster on-the-ground conservation efforts that protect and restore natural resources and local communities by supporting collaborative conservation organizations, who produce collective impacts through stakeholder driven efforts.
Coalitions and Collaboratives works to foster on-the-ground conservation efforts that protect and restore natural resources and local communities by supporting collaborative conservation organizations, who produce collective impacts through stakeholder driven efforts.
Coalitions and Collaboratives (COCO) is releasing another round of AIM funding. The Pre-Application has been modified from the previous round to be less cumbersome. Attached below is the Request for Proposal, Pre-Application/Concept Paper, and an Example of the Strategic Value question.
Examples of Strategic Value Statement
You can access the Round 5/Summer 2020 grant information on COCO's website: https://co-co.org/get-involved/grants/aim-grant/.
COCO hosted an informational webinar today Wednesday, June 3 at 1:30 MDT. A recording of the webinar will be posted on the website above.