ReDesignLA, a collaborative managed by Council for Watershed Health (CWH), is composed of 13 community-based organizations (CBOs) and Tribal partners with established community trust, working in various hyper-local communities throughout Los Angeles County. For over a decade, CWH, with support from Water Foundation and Accelerate Resilience LA, has established successful processes of providing technical assistance and building the capacity of local CBOs and Tribes to fund and implement community-led multi-benefit projects. We focus this work in regions that have been historically underserved and under-resourced, advancing CWH’s mission of advancing the health and sustainability of our region’s watersheds, rivers, streams and habitats - both in natural areas and urban neighborhoods. 

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With their local ties and long-established community trust, ReDesignLA CBO and Tribal partners are experts at engaging their community meaningfully. ReDesignLA supports partners with developing needs assessments and agency partnerships, selecting project sites, and submitting competitive grant applications. The collaborative’s approach to project development involves convening CBOs, Tribes, agencies, government entities, technical teams, and funders to collectively build and steward these community-led climate resilient  infrastructure projects. To date, ReDesignLA partners have secured over $133.5 million for over 30 projects, including green schoolyards, green streets, park renovations, and a Tribal-led native plant nursery. 

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This website exists as a resource of useful frameworks, toolkits, case studies, event and funding tracking, and "lessons-learned" across the collaborative’s work. We hope that this ongoing compilation of information will benefit community leaders, watershed coordinators, project managers, designers, engineers, and others when developing multi-benefit climate resilient  infrastructure for their own communities.