For reference, The Branch of Tribal Climate Resilience (TCR) provides financial support for federally-recognized Tribal Nations and authorized Tribal organizations through a competitive funding opportunity to build Tribal resilience capacity. Since 2011, TCR has distributed over 1,050 awards totaling more than $240 million. In FY 2023, TCR awarded approximately $120.8 million in funding through President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Inflation Reduction Act, and FY 2023 annual appropriations.

The Tribal Climate Resilience Annual Awards Program supports both planning and implementation projects, including for climate adaptation planning, community-led relocation, managed retreat (ie, partial relocation), protect-in-place efforts, ocean and coastal management, as well as for habitat restoration and adaptation.

You can view a map with information on Tribes’ and Tribal organization’s previously funded projects on the Tribal Climate Resilience Annual Awards Dashboard.

Tribes are contending with multiple and increasingly persistent climate impacts to infrastructure and their way of life.

These include:



• Flooding
• Erosion and permafrost subsidence – at both coastal and riverine locations
• Sea level rise, extreme precipitation events
• Storm surge
• Extreme weather events
• Water scarcity
• Drought-induced wildfire including resultant post-fire flood damage, among others.

Climate-related threats to tribal infrastructure are expected to increase in frequency and severity under future climate scenarios, thus being highly vulnerable to impacts associated with climate change.

The function of The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Branch of Tribal Climate Resilience (TCR) is to collaborate with selected communities and provide programmatic, technical, and financial assistance in support of these demonstration communities.

STGS was awarded the contract to help facilitate the function and accomplishment of objectives of the Branch of Tribal Climate Resilience (TCR). The main function of this position is to support BIA TCR by collaborating with BIA Regional Coordinators, partners, and communities.