The Thriving Cities Challenge is designed to empower community-led teams with new and different ideas for advancing health, resilience, and equity in their city. We believe those most impacted by climate change should also be at the forefront of actions to combat its effects, and we want to hear your best ideas for using nature-based solutions (see our definition of this term here) to improve the place you call home.
A $50,000-100,000 award will be presented to the winning team to implement their proposal.
Before you start the application, we encourage you to review our participation guidelines, scoring rubric, and applicant resources, which include examples of projects that fit the bill. Applications may be submitted in English or Spanish.
Please note: All application materials submitted are, and will remain, proprietary data of the applicant and are considered by the Thriving Cities Challenge to be owned exclusively by the applicant team represented therein. The CSU Salazar Center, nor its Thriving Cities Challenge, does not, and will not, assert or lay ownership claim to any project proposal, inclusive of the data or intellectual property therein. For the purposes of the Challenge, the entirety of each application will be shared with evaluators for the review process only. Portions of an application, including the application video and executive summary, may be published online or otherwise repurposed for communications and outreach purposes by the CSU Salazar Center, with the express purpose of garnering support for and awareness of the projects represented in the Challenge. By submitting an application, the applicant is consenting to these additional uses of application materials.
Your team must submit its application no later than Thursday, April 15, 2021, at 5:00 PM Mountain.