How might we as Neighborhood PODs create an action project to help keep our neighbors cool this summer?
San Antonio summers are getting longer and hotter, and the neighbors who feel it most are often those with the fewest resources to respond. This month's Climate Ready Neighborhoods network meeting brings PODs together to do something about it.
We're meeting at the Rendon Entrepreneurial Center in the Quintana neighborhood, a community that knows firsthand what it means to build resilience from the ground up. This is our Resilient Programs & Services meeting—the resilience area centered on the people-to-people connections, programs, and community relationships that keep neighbors healthy and supported before, during, and after climate disruptions.
Extreme heat is our focus. San Antonio's Climate Action & Adaptation Plan identifies it as one of the highest risks our city faces, and Neighborhood PODs are exactly where that plan becomes real. Tonight is about turning strategy into action.
You'll move through a series of hands-on stations designed to help you build a concrete project idea your POD can put in motion this summer. You'll hear directly from neighbors and community partners already working on cooling solutions, map your neighborhood's assets and heat vulnerabilities, and work through an action statement that connects what your community already has to what it needs most.
By the end of the evening, you'll leave with a drafted project plan, and you'll learn about a new funding opportunity to help you execute it. The SA Climate Ready: Neighborhood Action Microgrant launches this spring, with awards up to $1,000 available on a rolling basis for active PODs ready to take action.
Come ready to collaborate. Bring your Programs & Services Coordinator or someone on your core team who can help carry this work forward. Whether your POD is just starting to think about heat resilience or ready to build on work already underway, this evening will give you real tools, real connections, and a real next step.
Register: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/crn-network-meeting-may
Climate Ready Neighborhoods is offered in partnership by the City of San Antonio's Department of Resilience and Sustainability and The Impact Guild.