Community Partnerships
The 2025 Northeast Local Solutions Conference, hosted at Dartmouth, brought together practitioners, researchers, and advocates all working in their home communities to build climate resilience. (Photo By Beam Lertbunnaphongs '25)
Working together to build resilient and thriving communities
Communities are responding to interconnected challenges, from extreme weather, energy affordability, and housing pressures, to public health, infrastructure needs, and economic uncertainty. Addressing these challenges requires trusted relationships, local knowledge, shared learning, and sustained collaboration.
The Dartmouth Climate Collaborative works with municipalities, community organizations, Tribal partners, businesses, practitioners, and regional networks to translate knowledge into action and build capacity for climate resilience.
Through community-engaged projects, applied research, workshops, training, and collaborative planning, we connect Dartmouth’s people and resources with the experience, priorities, and assets of communities. Our work supports locally relevant solutions that can address multiple community goals at the same time, helping communities become more equitable, resilient, and thriving.
How We Work
The Climate Collaborative builds relationships grounded in trust, transparency, and shared purpose, bringing together community knowledge, practitioner experience, and Dartmouth scholarship to address real-world challenges. Through applied research, training, tools, and convening, the Collaborative helps communities move from ideas to implementation while creating opportunities for residents and partners to shape priorities, develop strategies, and participate in decision-making. This work supports locally driven solutions that strengthen climate resilience, affordability, public health, equity, economic vitality, and community well-being.
More About Community Partnerships
The Dartmouth Climate Collaborative works alongside communities to strengthen local capacity, connect knowledge with action, and develop solutions grounded in community priorities.
The Climate Collaborative is a pan-institution effort with leadership across campus, support from the President and Provost, and guidance from an Advisory Council and Faculty Advisory Committee.
The Dartmouth Climate Collaborative welcomes opportunities to work with municipalities, Tribal nations and organizations, community-based organizations, nonprofit organizations, businesses, regional networks, public agencies, alumni, researchers, and other partners.