​Delta Institute assists municipalities by integrating natural climate solutions and Green Infrastructure (GI) to reduce climate change impacts by capturing 100 million stormwater gallons and leveraging millions in municipal GI investment. We focus on communities that are disproportionately affected by flooding to collaboratively improve their environmental indicators, mitigate local impacts of climate change, and strengthen their neighborhoods’ adaptation to new weather patterns and events. We are helping our neighbors increase their resiliency and address our changing climate in the Midwest via:

Delta Institute is operating as an EPA Region 5 EFC in Category 2: Regional Water Infrastructure—so that more communities have access to cleaner and healthier water resources. Delta Institute, as one of the EPA Region 5 EFCs, is providing targeted technical assistance centered around funding for projects that achieve the goals of either the Clean Water Act or the Safe Drinking Water Act. Our water technical assistance projects focus on water infrastructure and directly partner with municipalities, local forms of governments, States and State agencies, Tribal governments, and non-governmental organizations. Our technical assistance is designed to achieve:

Delta Institute supports Midwestern farmers as they transition to sustainable and regenerative practices, thus improving the environment, mitigating the impacts of climate change, capturing millions of tons of carbon, and strengthening a farmer’s bottom line. We work on hundreds of thousands of Midwestern agricultural acres to successfully transition them into conservation-focused farming practices, so our region’s primary economic driver can be more environmentally and financially sound. We’re expanding conservation in the Midwestern agricultural economy by focusing on:

Delta Institute prides itself on being responsive to the needs of its partners and responding to what they define as being the most important goal, activity, project, or taking a new approach to improving their local environmental and economic outcomes.

Our Sustainability and Support Services are intentionally designed to achieve community-led plans and goals, which include a wide array of sectors in which Delta Institute has sizable experience. Delta Institute has worked with more than 300+ partner communities while securing external investment, facilitating projects, and creating practical tools, resources, strategies, and municipal-, county-, and state-level plans. Our partners span the public, nonprofit and for-profit sectors, and together we address core needs that span: