Service Provider Grants support service provider organizations to assist communities with climate action, energy and resilience planning.
Donor Name: State of Maine Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation & Future
State: Maine
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/08/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
In Fall 2024, a new grant opportunity is being offered this round for Service Providers. There are now two Service Provider Grant Tracks:
- Track 1 Community Enrollment Service Provider Grants enable organizations to assist two to five Communities to prepare for and enroll in the Community Resilience Partnership and then apply for grant funds to undertake priority climate and energy projects.
- Track 2 Community Vulnerability Assessment Service Provider Grants enable organizations to assist two to five enrolled/enrolling Communities to complete community vulnerability assessments that identify vulnerable community members, infrastructure, and assets, and then utilize that data to further prioritize climate action projects and apply for grant funds.
Funding Information
- The Community Resilience Partnership plans to allocate approximately $600,000 for Service Provider Grant awards in Track 1 and Track 2 during this grant round. GOPIF may award all, part, or none of this allocation at its discretion.
- Applicants may request up to $10,000 per community in the Group. Applicants may additionally request up to $2,500 for each community in the group with high social vulnerability or community with a population of less than 4,000 people.
Grant Period
Contract terms will be up to twelve (12) months.
Eligible Uses of funds
Eligible uses of funds include project personnel and fringe, contractual expenses, supplies, minor equipment, travel, indirect, and “other” (such as rental fees for meetings). These funds may not be used for construction, computer equipment, permit fees, or to support unrelated staffing needs of the applicant organization.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be considered for Grant funding under this application process, Applicants must meet the following requirements:
- Eligible service provider organizations include regional planning organizations, councils of governments, regional economic development organizations, county governments, non-profit organizations, academic institutions and cooperative extension programs, and for-profit enterprises. Municipalities are also eligible to apply for Service Provider grants and will need to demonstrate experience and capacity to serve other communities in the group.
- Service Provider Applicants must recruit two (2) to five (5) Communities as part of applications for Track 1 and Track 2.
- For Track 1, communities may not be enrolled previously in the Partnership nor supported previously by an earlier Service Provider Grant.
- Unorganized territories, townships, and plantations are eligible. Letters of support should come from the board of assessors, UT supervisor, or county manager as appropriate. A letter of support from the Maine Land Use Planning Commission is strongly encouraged.
- Applications must include a letter of support from each community in the proposed Group. Letters of support for each community, and other project partners as appropriate, must be included with the application package. Do not send letters separately.
- For Track 1, letters of support should indicate the community’s intention to enroll in the Partnership during the grant period and convey its understanding of the enrollment requirements.
- For Track 2, letters of support should indicate the community’s intention to actively participate in completion of a community vulnerability assessment and convey its understanding of its role in the process (data gathering, community outreach, etc.)
For more information, visit GOPIF.
