ClimateWorks Foundation
ClimateWorks Foundation convenes the Adaptation and Resilience Collaborative for Funders (ARC), bringing together philanthropies to share learning, coordinate strategies, and increase investment in climate adaptation. ARC helps funders better understand where resources are needed, identify what works, and act collectively to strengthen resilience for communities facing escalating climate risks.
Investment Rationale
Supporting ARC helps close the adaptation funding gap and elevate adaptation as a core component of climate action.
Mobilizing adaptation capital: ARC convenes funders around shared learning and coordinated action, helping increase the scale and effectiveness of philanthropic investment in climate resilience.
Boosting philanthropy’s impact: Their model enhances transparency around funding progress to identify gaps and inform more effective philanthropic action.
Impact & Outcomes
ARC is building a more coordinated and better-resourced philanthropic response to climate adaptation, extending the impact of individual grants through collective action.
Greater philanthropic alignment: More than 70 foundations participate in ARC, creating a platform for funders to exchange insights, identify gaps, and coordinate investment across regions and issue areas.
More effective adaptation funding: ARC’s shared learning, resources, convenings, and strategic support helps funders identify high-impact opportunities and direct more resources to climate resilience.
