Projects | Resilience Accelerator: Colorado River Basin

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The Colorado River Basin is the most water-stressed region in North America.

Local nonprofits, racing to preserve and protect their communities, are supporting ecosystems, healthy forests, and working agricultural lands. By holding water in the landscape, these places are better adapted to drought, flooding, and extreme heat. Yet, the capital these projects need is not reaching them.

Resilience Accelerator: Colorado River Basin helps close that gap.

It identifies high-potential nature-based solutions, enables developers building investable business models, and connects projects with catalytic capital. Flexible, mission aligned funding helps these solutions prove their value, attract additional investment, and scale across the Basin.

What does the Accelerator Do?

The Accelerator supports a small cohort of project developers working across agriculture, rangelands, forests, and cities. Over a six-month program, they engage in hands-on workshops, receive technical assistance, talk directly with investors, and collaborate with each other.

In the process, they sharpen their project into an investable model, and bring their portfolio to funders ready to deploy impact-first capital. The result is a stronger pipeline of investment-ready opportunities that can deliver lasting environmental and community benefits at a meaningful scale.