CAP Project 4 – Blue Planet – Resilience in Central Iowa through the Butterfly effect – $10,000

This project is led by women who organized to offer programming for other women landowners and influencers in our Raccoon River Watershed through a collaborative partnership with CM-CAP partners Linda […]

CAP Project 3 – University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) – Sovereign Nation Enhanced Environmental Monitoring and Data Sharing – $9,973 

Health, safety, and preservation of environmental history. Utilizing existing experience and education in the area concerning meteorological and climatological monitoring, this proposal seeks to create a partnership between the Midwest […]

CAP Project 2 – Women, Farming and Agricultural Network (WFAN) – Storytelling mini grants – $10,000 

This project gathers a cohort of 15 women who steward Iowa land to compile their existing knowledge of the phenological relationships they use to guide agricultural decision-making. They will leverage […]

CAP Project 1 – Nebraska Indian Community College (NICC) – Environmental Monitoring to enhance decision making across the Santee Sioux Nation – $9,497

There is a paucity of systematic and cataloged environmental observations across much of the Sovereign Nation’s lands, including the Santee Sioux Nation. The frequency of weather extremes, the pace of […]