Collaborate Climate works with communities, state and local governments, and organizations to strengthen relationships, co-create strategy, and develop the infrastructure for making decisions and taking action together.
What does this look like?
Together, we may design collaborative processes, develop tools, facilitate conversations, create frameworks, make art, map data, document stories, or conduct participatory research – each leading to the development of projects, policies, plans, and programs to support just, sustainable, and resilient futures.
This work is grounded in the beliefs that:
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A path forward is most effective when it’s locally defined and created by the people who are most impacted.
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Transformative outcomes come from changing the underlying systems and root causes of vulnerability and community harm.
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Working together involves integrating different ways of knowing and working – lived experience, creative practice, and technical analysis are complementary sources of solutions.
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Civic dialogue, relationships, and spaces for building community are the soil for collective decision-making and action towards a future we believe in.
About Holly Jacobson
Holly created Collaborate Climate in 2024 as a way to partner with other facilitators, strategists, artists and makers, scientists, and local leaders who are imagining and building a future rooted in abundance, creativity, and collective care.
With a background in community planning, climate policy, ecosystems biology, and visual arts, her work merges community-driven processes, policy and strategy development, research and analysis, creative practice, and collaborative learning for systems change.
Since 2016, Holly has worked with local and state governments, nonprofits, and community partners to create frameworks, processes, tools, and capacity for collective decision-making and project and program implementation to support climate action, environmental justice, and resilient communities and regions.