Extreme heat and natural disasters are getting more severe and their damage, more destructive. The Rockefeller Foundation is helping cities and communities build resilient infrastructure to withstand extreme climate risks. One hundred and forty-seven lives were lost, and thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed — with estimates of $50 billion in reported damages across the East Coast. When the U.S. government’s rebuilding task force proposed a regional design competition to help with the recovery process, The Rockefeller Foundation made a $1 million grant to help administer the “Rebuild by Design” program, in which design teams of architects, landscape artists, engineers, and others worked with local communities to develop recovery plans for the areas most impacted by the storm. The Foundation’s initial grant — combined with a matching donation from the JPB Foundation — gave $200,000 to each of the ten design teams tasked with developing plans to rebuild impacted areas to make them more resilient, sustainable, and livable.