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The Florida League of Mayors has awarded the City of Sanibel a 2025 City Catalyst Grant. This organization provides Florida Mayors the opportunity to connect and collaborate for the benefit of municipalities. The city was awarded this grant in support of SanCap Resilience.
“We’re grateful to the Florida League of Mayors for this grant from their City Catalyst Grant Program,” said Sanibel Mayor Mike Miller. “These funds will be used to defray various outreach expenses of SanCap Resilience, a coalition of local non-profits and citizens who are devoting their energies to making the island stronger and more resilient.”
“We know the community will support these important efforts,” said Miller.
SanCap Resilience is a coalition of local organizations and concerned citizens whose mission is to lead a community-based initiative to build resilience and protect the vibrancy of our sanctuary islands long into the future.
The grant of $2,500 will help SanCap Resilience in its efforts to provide education and resources to support the community’s need to build back more resiliently from recent hurricanes.
Since its founding, SanCap Resilience has engaged the community in several ways to support recovery from Hurricane Ian and to promote efforts to plan for future resilience.
Activities have included community surveys, dissemination of educational materials, presentations by experts on a variety of resilience and sustainability topics, civic engagement on policy, and more.
With this grant, SanCap Resilience plans for the coming season include:
• Online follow-up survey to assess the current needs and concerns of community members
• Community presentations on key resilience topics reflecting needs and concerns voiced in the community survey
• Dissemination of resilience and sustainability-related information through multi-channel communications campaigns, including emails, social media, and collaboration with partner organizations
• Civic engagement on a variety of City of Sanibel planning efforts is currently underway, including the vulnerability assessment, adaptation plan, storm water management plan, comprehensive transportation plan, updates to the Sanibel Plan, and more.
“We are so grateful to the city and Mayor Miller for helping us to secure these funds to support our work,” said Bob Moore, chair of the SanCap Resilience steering committee.
“The feedback we’ve received from community members is that there is overwhelming support for the goal of making Sanibel a model of resilience for a coastal community, both through adaptation of infrastructure and by adopting responsible energy practices to improve our sustainability,” Moore said. “We look forward to being a part of helping that effort in the community.”
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