Community Climate Resilience Grant Program

Who can apply? What do these grants support?

The Community Climate Resilience (CCR) Grant Program provides 3 tiers of project funding to frontline communities who are disproportionally impacted by climate change, including:

• Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities
• Immigrants and refugees
• People living with low incomes
• Communities experiencing disproportionate pollution exposure
• Women, gender-nonconforming, and LGBTQIA people
• People who live and/or work outside
• People with existing health issues
• People with limited English skills

Applicant requirements

In additions to representing 1 or more of the communities above, applicants must also:

• 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.

Funding tiers

Applications can be for programs in 1 of the 3 funding tiers.

• Tier 1: $5,000 - $9,999
• Tier 2: $10,000 - $15,999
• Tier 3: $20,000 - $30,000

Eligible projects

CCR grant funding is meant to support frontline communities develop new or expand on existing community-based climate resilience projects. Projects must take place and serve communities within King County.

Though not required, we encourage projects to connect to climate issues/actions in 1 or more of the focus areas below. These are from the Strong and Resilient Frontline Communities section of King County's Strategic Climate Action Plan.

• Community capacity development
  Related projects might include (but not be limited to):
  • Leadership development trainings to prepare community members to actions for climate resilience
  • Youth development programs to elevate youth voices around climate action
• Community health and emergency preparedness
  Related projects might include (but not be limited to):
  • Provide training materials that prepare frontline communities for emergency events and climate-related health impacts
• Energy justice and utilities
  Related projects might include (but not be limited to):
  • Building energy literacy in frontline communities
• Housing security and anti-displacement
• Food systems and food security

Application deadline

We are not accepting applications at this time. 

We expect to open our next round of funding in May 2025.

Important program dates

We notified our 2023 - 2024 awardees on November 30, 2024.

• The deadline for those projects is December 31, 2024.
• Required final reports will be presented in January and February 2025.

Learn more about the 2023 - 2024 Community Climate Resilience Grant Program (341 KB)