Cohasset Overview
Cohasset is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, in the South East part of the state. They have a population of 8,392 people and an area of 9.8 square miles. Climate hazards present in Cohasset include inland flooding, coastal flooding, severe winter storms and other severe weather, extreme temperatures, and drought.
Cohasset Core Team
The MVP 2.0 Core team is a group of municipal staff and Community Liaisons who work together to identify local climate resilience priorities and implement a project that supports those priorities.
Cohasset's Community Liaisons includes individuals with expertise in and connections to:
- Housing
- Transit
- St. Anthony Church Food Pantry
- Public health
Cohasset's Core Team includes municipal representation from:
- Regional Public Health Social Worker
- Sustainability & Grants Coordinator
- Town Planner
- Conservation Agency
Cohasset's MVP 2.0 Seed Project: Cohasset Food Justice Pilot Program
Cohasset received funding to implement a Seed Project that addresses one or more of their climate resilience priorities.
Cohasset aims to establish collaborative governance amongst food justice stakeholders including local schools, farms, gardeners and the Cohasset Food Bank.
The activities of this project include:
- Invest in physical infrastructure including signage to create a welcoming storefront for the Cohasset Food Bank.
- Build new relationships and partnerships to establish sustainable collaborative governance.
- Assess policy changes to minimize regulatory barriers.
- Establish pop-up markets in underserved areas.
- Train and collaborate with home gardeners.
Cohasset's Action Grant Projects
The MVP Action Grant provides funding to communities that want to take important steps to prepare for climate change, such as dealing with extreme weather, flooding, rising sea levels, and extreme heat.
Cohasset Social Resilience Coalition & Hub (FY26)
The Town of Cohasset seeks to institutionalize the collaboration of social service providers that has been seeded and supported through the MVP 2.0 pilot program implementation over the past 1.5 years through the formation of a Social Resilience Coalition (the Coalition). If funded, the near-term priority of the Coalition will be to lead a community-based planning process to identify and assess potential sites for a Community Resilience Hub (Resilience Hub). The proposed Resilience Hub would serve as the physical space to co-locate local social service providers in Cohasset, all of whom, we've learned through MVP 2.0, are looking for physical space to meet the needs of priority populations in Cohasset. Through the work of the Coalition and selection of a priority location for a resilience hub, the Town of Cohasset will build climate resilience in a way that materially centers the voices and needs of priority populations who already experience a disproportionate burden from local climate impacts.