Sarah Farrell On Financing The "Resilience Continuum"

In this episode, Sarah Farrell,  Climate Philanthropy Advisory Director at Impatience Earth, explains why philanthropic investment in climate resilience represents “a leap of faith” that she and the team are working to get more funders comfortable with. She speaks to the different strategies used to coax wary funders to embrace this still poorly understood niche, and explains why it’s so important that progressive donors adopt a more venture capital mindset to supporting resilience initiatives.

She also shares our latest work with the nonprofit SouthSouthNorth on promoting the “Resilience Continuum”, a financing framework that seeks to move donors beyond the tired adaptation-mitigation binary and channel dollars into community-level resilience for the long term.