The Community Climate Resilience (CCR) Grant Program serves as a resource for frontline communities to develop new or expand on existing community-based climate resilience projects.
Donor Name: King County
State: Washington
County: King County (WA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/16/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year
Details:
The Community Climate Resilience (CCR) Grant Program is intended for frontline communities, defined as those that are disproportionately impacted by climate change due to existing and historic racial, social, environmental, and economic inequities, and who have limited resources and limited capacity to adapt.
Frontline communities include Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities, immigrants and refugees, people living with low incomes, communities experiencing disproportionate pollution exposure, women and gender non-conforming people, LGBTQIA people, people who live and/or work outside, those with existing health issues, people with limited English skills, and other climate-vulnerable groups.
Funding Information
Project budget requests can range between $5,000 – $30,000.
Grant Period
June 9, 2025 – March 22, 2026.
Eligible Projects
The project actions listed under each focus area are meant to serve as examples of project goals, but they are not limited to these actions.
- Community Capacity Development
- Grow community capacity through leadership development trainings to prepare community members to act for climate resilience.
- Design and implement culturally relevant communication and education strategies that best inform frontline communities about climate change and intersecting climate justice issue areas.
- Create or grow youth development programs to elevate youth voices around climate action and create opportunities for youth to be leaders in decision-making spaces.
- Community Health & Emergency Preparedness
- Food Systems & Food Security
- Support local and BIPOC growers to expand affordability and accessibility 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/or expansion of programs focused on the production and distribution of affordable and health foods to communities that live in areas experiencing food insecurity and have low accessibility to public transit, people with disabilities and/or who have health disparities, and people who are disproportionately impacted by climate change.
- Expand frontline community capacity and access to health lands and waters in which to grow, gather, and/or 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/or partnerships.
- Strategizing and/or 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 in systems.
- Special Topics: Heat Mitigation
- Support community-determined solutions to reduce the impacts of extreme heat on vulnerable populations.
- Highlight strategic objectives, including keeping people safe indoors and outdoors, increasing heat safety awareness and education, integrating heat resilience into infrastructure planning and green spaces, and supporting community-led heat action.
Eligibility Criteria
- Have 501(c)3 nonprofit status; or
- Have a fiscal sponsor with 501(c)3 nonprofit status.
- 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 the proposed project must directly benefit 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.
