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Christina Oraftik is the Project Associate at Farallon Strategies bringing a multidisciplinary background with experience in climate policy, wildfire resilience, and nature-based adaptation solutions both internationally and domestically. Having ...

Press Release: California Strategic Growth Council Announces Second Round of BOOST Program to Help Under-Resourced Communities Address Climate Change. This technical assistance program supports under-resourced cities and towns in building capacity, o ...

By Carolyn Yvellez and Michael McCormick​The concept of resilience has gained popularity in the last year as we begin to recover from compounding crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the murder of George Floyd and killing of many others at the ha ...

By Michael McCormick ​California is facing a number of worsening impacts of climate change now and into the future. LGC, a Farallon Strategies partner, produced a sign-on letter (below), mirrored by #FaraStrat's own letter (also below), to support ...

By Michael McCormick and Carolyn Yvellez ​The context, opportunity, and need around local climate action is changing. But is local climate planning keeping up? Farallon Strategies staff collaborated with a group of practitioners, convened by City S ...

Farallon Strategies is thankful to have attended Greenlining's 28th Annual Economic Summit focused on Meeting the Moment and #Momentum21 to support the work of the California Resilience Partnership. We will continue to bring these important con ...

Today, April 22, 2021, is Earth Day, a perfect opportunity to celebrate all that we are provided by our planet and remember how we must work every day to protect this “pale blue dot.” For a small mission-driven organization like Farallon Strate ...

​Joining Farallon Strategies in February 2021 as a Founding Associate, Carolyn Yvellez brings a deep understanding of how climate change and resilience goals and policies are implemented on the ground. She brings advanced analytical proficiency, ...

Farallon Strategies is proud to be part of the California Resilience Partnership (CRP), launched by Resilient Cities Catalyst (RCC) on February 22, 2021. CRP is a multimillion-dollar public-philanthropic effort in coordination with a diverse set of ...

Farallon Strategies launched in September of 2020 to activate emerging opportunities that support transformative change in climate and resilience governance, strategy, policies, programs, and projects in California and beyond. In this space we will ...