The Montgomery County is accepting applications for the 2025 cycle of the Montco 2040 Implementation Grant Program.
Donor Name: Montgomery County
State: Pennsylvania
County: Montgomery County (PA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/03/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
Projects – Support Montco 2040 Goals
- Connected Communities – People want to be connected and part of a broader community. A key role for the county is to help these connections occur beyond local municipal boundaries.
- Encourage collaboration and partnerships among governments, businesses, institutions, schools, higher education, and other stakeholders
- Improve transportation quality and expand options for county residents and workers
- Expand and connect county trails, local trails, greenways, natural areas, and parks
- Support strong downtowns and community destinations, including mixed use areas, arts and culture
- focal points, libraries, and other gathering places
- Sustainable Places – The county is full of wonderful neighborhoods and communities. These places need to be sustained and enhanced in a long-lasting and effective way.
- Support a modern, resilient, green, and energy-efficient infrastructure network
- Improve stormwater management and reduce the impact of flooding
- Conserve natural resources, environmentally-sensitive areas, and farmland
- Provide more opportunities for residents to exercise and have healthy lifestyles
- Support housing choices and opportunities to meet the needs of all people
- Enhance community character and protect neighborhoods
- Vibrant Economy – A strong economy is critical for all places. With a vibrant economy, residents can earn and spend more, governments can make needed infrastructure improvements, and businesses can grow.
- Improve transportation access to businesses
- Encourage development and transformative investment where infrastructure already exists
- Attract and retain businesses and vital community assets
- Flexibly adapt to changing market conditions and demographics
- Facilitate the marketing of the county and its assets.
Projects – Focus Categories
- Transportation & Mobility Improvements
- This focus category is an expansion of what had been branded as “Walk and Bike Montco” in prior guidelines. While improvements to enhance walking and biking are always important, this expanded category adds eligible projects from the County Transportation Program grant initiative. Areas that currently impede the ability to walk or bike, infrastructure that needs updating, lack of facilities, and/or dangerous conditions can be targeted under this focus category.
- Support Downtowns and Community Destinations
- Mixed use areas with thriving businesses, cultural venues, libraries, green infrastructure, and urban parks provide places for people to gather and make connections with their community while improving the quality of life for surrounding neighborhoods.
- Adaptation and Resiliency
- Climate change and extreme weather events will continue to impact natural systems and threaten public health and quality of life. Communities must adapt to these changes and become more resilient to better sustain their futures.
Funding Information
- This cycle has a funding allotment of $3 million.
- The maximum grant amount is $250,000. The maximum grant amount for a multi-municipal project is $350,000.
- The minimum grant amount is $10,000.
Grant Period
Projects must be completed within 36 months from the date the applicant is sent a funding agreement contract by Montgomery County.
Eligible Costs
- Construction
- Infrastructure and Site Work
- Materials
- Land Acquisition (purchase price only)
Eligibility Criteria
All municipalities in Montgomery County are eligible to apply for an implementation grant as the primary applicant.
- The application must be submitted by a representative of the municipality and approved by the chief elected official. The municipality will bear all responsibility for completing and maintaining a project if a grant is awarded.
- Municipalities may partner with other public agencies, non-profit organizations, or private entities, but the municipality will still be responsible for facilitating and administering the grant. The partner organization or entity can carry out the work of the project.
- A municipality may submit and have under review up to two applications at a time, however only one grant will be awarded in a funding round.
- Municipalities may submit a multi-municipal application for projects that are collaborative across local boundaries. These submissions, if awarded, will not count towards the single grant award restriction for any of the participating municipalities (item A.3). There is a higher funding cap for multi-municipal projects.
For more information, visit Montgomery County.
