The Water Foundation and LA County Flood Control District

August 2026

In 2025, Duvivier’s nonprofit Verdant Venice Group was awarded a grant through the Safe Clean Water Program (SCWP) to bring stormwater education directly to the Venice community. The goal of the grant was to organize hands-on watershed workshops and site visits to educate the community on nature-based solutions to capture stormwater, explore SCWP resources and involve them in creating neighborhood project maps.

Verdant Venice Group and Duvivier Architects gathered and consolidated information into visual tools to share with the public: large-scale local watershed maps, power-point presentations, new water-intervention icons, newsletters, social media content and educational videos, watershed vocabulary list and handout materials in Spanish and English. These tools were used to organize dozens of workshops, pop-up presentations, and site visits.

Grant activities introduced water basics such as watersheds, rainwater and runoff treatment, as well as tangible examples of nature-based solutions to slow and clean rainwater. Besides an education component, hands-on brainstorm sessions and charettes engaged community members in developing and prioritizing specific watershed projects for future implementation. Hundreds of comments identifying areas of opportunity and project ideas were received and recorded.

The outcomes of the grant included reaching almost 5000 people across the Venice and Santa Monica watersheds, and dozens of project ideas to address water issues in the target area.