One of the communities participating this year is North Kingstown. The Municipal Resilience Program (MRP) provides direct support to cities and towns to complete a municipal-driven process that will “bring together climate change information and local knowledge to identify top hazards, current challenges, and community strengths. This process will identify priority projects and strategies to improve the municipality’s resilience to all natural and climate-related hazards using a flexible, tested approach called Community Resilience Building (CRB),” the program’s website states. Once a municipality successfully completes the process they are then designated as a “Resilient Rhody Municipality”. By being given that designation municipalities are able to apply for dedicated action grants to implement identified projects. The municipality is required to make a 25 percent match to grant.