The Environmental Literacy Program (ELP) offers competitive grants that help communities build the environmental literacy necessary for resilience to extreme weather, climate change, and other environmental hazards.

This page is a hub for NOAA-related resilience resources. Here, you can peruse the agency's related assets, explore ELP-funded resilience projects, and learn more about our grantee community. 

Looking for tools to better understand your community’s environmental threats and what you can do to prepare for them? Explore our list of resilience resources from NOAA, NOAA partners, and other related organizations.

From Alaska to the U.S. Virgin Islands, ELP grantees are using education to increase resilience in their home communities. Find details about each funded project on our awards map. The ELP photo story also highlights a variety of grantees that are working on resilience projects across the country. Grantees that have completed their projects have also created products that support community resilience education. 

• 2017 workshop report
• 2019 workshop report 
• 2021 workshop report
• 2023 workshop report

You can view summaries for resilience-related ELP grant competitions as well as the full text of each competition’s federal funding opportunity below. To see all ELP awards, visit the Grants page.

Competition Summary

Federal funding opportunity: NOAA-SEC-OED-2020-2006190

Federal funding opportunity: NOAA-SEC-OED-2018-2005455

Federal funding opportunity: NOAA-SEC-OED-2016-2004737

Federal funding opportunity: NOAA-SEC-OED-2015-2004408