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National Academy of Public Administration Launches Extreme Weather Resilience Hub to Create Climate Adaptation Solutions for Local Governments
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Post Date: May 23, 2025
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May 23, 2025
Contact: Matt Hampton mhampton@napawash.org, Lizzie Alwan lalwan@napawash.org
National Academy of Public Administration Launches Extreme Weather Resilience Hub to Create Climate Adaptation Solutions for Local Governments
Los Angeles, CA – The National Academy of Public Administration held a charter signing ceremony this week to mark the establishment of a new and revolutionary chapter in the organization’s already impactful history.
At the home of philanthropists and Academy Fellows Mark and Jane Pisano, Academy President & CEO James-Christian B. Blockwood co-signed a charter to officially create the Extreme Weather Resilience Hub, a new Academy initiative designed to help local governments across the country research, plan, and finance climate-resilient infrastructure and activities.
“Information is the most important tool in climate adaptation for communities,” Blockwood said. “The Extreme Weather Resilience Hub is the Academy’s way of deploying our Fellows, our knowledge and our network of intergovernmental partners. It’s impossible to overstate how important investment in, and integration of, climate-resilient practices will be in the decades ahead. The work of the future starts now at the Academy, and it requires new ways of thinking about the challenges we face - and whole-of-society participation to address them.”
“Climate resilience will be the determining factor in the survival of communities coast to coast,” said Mark Pisano, who spearheaded the creation of the Hub alongside Academy staff. “Flooding, increasingly severe hurricanes, wildfires and more threaten people’s homes, schools and the infrastructure they’ve spent generations building. Creating a network of climate-resilient communities and resources is the most important step we can take to start building the future today.”
Present at the charter signing were Academy Fellows, Los Angeles natives and good government advocates who will be instrumental in helping the Extreme Weather Resilience Hub become a valuable resource for communities nationwide.
“Rising insurance premiums and gaps in coverage along with mortgage defaults, property devaluation, demands on taxpayers and other factors is not a sustainable model,” said Richard Seline, Managing Partner of ROAR Partners and Executive Director of Future Proofing America. “By working collaboratively to identify projects that can be jumpstarted with the significant know-how of the Academy and our focus on unleashing $1.5 trillion in resilience capital, we seek to measurably and definitively transform communities towards thriving not just surviving.”
For more information about the Academy and the Extreme Weather Resilience Hub, email Lizzie Alwan at lalwan@napawash.org.
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