Community Resilience Partnership service-provider grants
Grants for organisations helping up to five Maine communities plan climate and energy projects, join the Partnership or assess climate vulnerabilities.
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Track 1 funds help for communities joining the Community Resilience Partnership: assess their progress, hold public workshops, adopt the required local commitment, prioritize climate and energy projects, and prepare applications for project funding. Track 2 funds vulnerability assessments for enrolled or enrolling communities: identify climate hazards and exposed assets, engage residents at risk, assess potential consequences, prioritize practical actions over different time horizons, and identify resources and funding routes. Completed assessment reports must go to each community. Both tracks include help applying for a Community Action Grant or another source of project funding.
Each track offers up to USD 15,000 per community, for a group of up to five communities. You must provide a 15% cost share. Contributions of equipment, goods or services may count as in-kind match when they would otherwise be eligible costs. Match cannot include costs incurred before the grant award period.
Eligible expenses include reasonable personnel, contractor, supply, travel, indirect and meeting-venue costs. Construction, computer equipment, permit fees and unrelated staffing are excluded. A written grant agreement with the State is required; work completed before the effective date of a fully executed agreement will not be paid.
Track 1 should finish within 12 months and Track 2 within 18 months; contracts cannot exceed 24 months. Grantees must provide project deliverables, a brief lessons-learned case study and quarterly progress reports due 15 days after each calendar quarter ends. A final report is due within 30 days after the grant period ends.
Eligibility
Eligible service providers include regional planning organisations, councils of governments, regional economic development organisations, county governments, nonprofits, academic institutions, cooperative extension programmes and businesses. Municipalities can apply if they demonstrate the experience and capacity to serve other communities in the group.
- Recruit up to five Maine communities. Eligible communities include municipalities, federally recognized tribes, plantations, townships and unorganized territories.
- For Track 1, communities must never previously have enrolled in the Partnership or received support from an earlier Service Provider Grant. For Track 2, communities must not have received support from an earlier Track 2 Service Provider Grant.
- Track 1 applicants must demonstrate expertise and experience in climate resilience, clean energy and emissions reduction. Track 2 applicants must demonstrate expertise and experience in vulnerability and risk assessment and recommendations addressing those vulnerabilities.
- An organisation and a community may each participate in both tracks, but the organisation may submit only one application per track and each community may join only one application per track. Organisations may subcontract on multiple applications if they demonstrate capacity to meet those commitments. Communities in Track 2 may also apply for a Community Action Grant.
- Providers with an earlier active grant may apply if reports and deliverables are being met and completion is expected on time and within budget.
- Design accessible community engagement that includes underrepresented residents and people particularly vulnerable to climate impacts.
How to apply
- Stato
- chiude 13 nov 2026
- Chiude
- Restrizioni del bando
- Round 7 quarterly review for both tracks. Later submissions move to the next scheduled review; awards depend on funds remaining.[^c17][^c23]
Apply through the Maine Office of Community Affairs Submittable grants portal. Create an account to access the application; the account holder who starts it must submit it. Applications can be submitted at any time for quarterly review. Those received after a review deadline move to the next cycle. Awards depend on available funding, and the round closes when its funding limit is reached.
Provide the application cover page and eligibility information, evidence of relevant capacity and expertise, a scope of work describing enrollment or assessment tasks and help applying for project funding, a timeline, and a budget narrative and worksheet showing task costs and your match. Explain how the work will include people most affected by climate impacts and support applications for priority projects.
Upload a support letter from every community with the application. For Track 1, letters should confirm the intention to enroll during the grant period and understanding of the enrollment requirements. For Track 2, letters should confirm active participation in the vulnerability assessment and understanding of community roles, such as gathering data and outreach. For unorganized territories, townships and plantations, use the board of assessors, territory supervisor or county manager as appropriate; a Maine Land Use Planning Commission letter is encouraged. Do not send letters separately.
Track 1 work must help communities complete the self-evaluation and action list, document at least one public workshop and priority projects, and adopt a municipal resolution or Tribal Chief letter designating a committee or employee to coordinate climate and energy action. Plantations, townships and unorganized territories may instead supply the appropriate local-government letter. Submit completed materials through the online enrollment form.
Consult the Partnership website for any published binding answers to applicant questions. Programme questions go to marina.tomer@maine.gov with “SPG2026-7– Questions” in the subject line.