The Community Climate Resilience (CCR) Grant Program is a fund to help create new or grow existing community-based climate justice projects.
Donor Name: King County
State: Washington
County: King County (WA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/03/2023
Size of the Grant:
- Tier 1: $5,000 – $9,999
- Tier 2: $10,000 – $15,999
- Tier 3: $20,000 – $30,000
Details:
This fund is for those that are unjustly affected by climate change due to existing and historic racial, social, environmental, and economic factors.
Focus Areas
The Community Climate Resilience Grant Program Project Focus Areas:
- Community Capacity Development
- Grow leadership capacity through leadership development trainings to prepare community members to address climate resilience.
- Design and implement culturally relevant communication and education strategies that best inform frontline communities about climate justice issues.
- Create or grow youth development programs to elevate youth voices around climate action.
- Community Health & Emergency Preparedness
- Food Systems & Food Security
- Support local and BIPOC growers to expand affordability and access to fresh, health and culturally relevant produce to frontline community members who could be disproportionately impacted by climate-influenced food insecurity.
- Support the development and expansion of programs focused on the production and distribution of affordable and healthy foods to communities that live in areas experiencing food insecurity, that have low access to public transit, people with disabilities, people experiencing health disparities, and people who are disproportionately impacted by climate change.
- Expand frontline community capacity and access to healthy lands and waters in which to grow, gather, and harvest culturally significant plants, foods, and natural resources in a changing climate.
- Housing Security & Anti-Displacement
- Expand capacity, knowledge and resources for frontline communities to articulate the connections between housing and climate change through accessibility workshops, trainings, informational resources and partnerships.
- Strategizing and development of climate resilient infrastructure for frontline communities.
- Energy Justice & Utilities
- Build energy literacy in frontline communities to develop leadership capacity for taking actions towards energy justice systems.
Funding Information
- Tier 1: $5,000 – $9,999
- Tier 2: $10,000 – $15,999
- Tier 3: $20,000 – $30,000
Eligible Projects
These are examples of eligible projects but the grant program funding is not limited to these options.
- Leadership development trainings to prepare community members to actions for climate resilience
- Create or grow youth development programs to elevate youth voices around climate action
- Provide training materials to prepare frontline communities for emergency events and climate-related health impacts
- Strategizing and/or development of climate resilient infrastructure for frontline communities
- Build energy literacy in frontline communities to develop leadership capacity for taking actions towards energy justice systems.
Eligibility Criteria
- Have 501(c)3 nonprofit status; or
- Have a fiscal sponsor with 501(c)3 nonprofit status; or
- Be willing and able to secure a fiscal sponsor with 501(c)3 nonprofit status by December 1, 2023, if awarded a grant
- For groups that must hire a fiscal sponsor, a fee of 8% to 15% of the total grant award is often charged. This fee may be included in your proposed budget
- Organization/collective or community group applying must be representative of a frontline community as defined above and work with frontline community members.
- All projects must take place within King County and serve frontline communities located in King County
For more information, visit King County.
