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Funding Opportunities

Learn about funding opportunities within the King County Executive Climate Office (ECO).

King County partners with organizations to seek, award and manage federal and non-federal grants. There are a variety of opportunities to help support work to reduce emissions, prepare communities for the impacts of climate change, and support resilience. View our current funding opportunities below, or click here to learn more about our office and programs.

Join roster for verified lenders for C-PACER program.

Apply by June 5 for first round of reviews.

The C-PACER program is a voluntary financing mechanism in King County designed to assist owners of eligible commercial properties in securing long-term funding from private capital providers for qualified improvements related to energy efficiency, renewable energy, water conservation, and building resiliency.

Administered by King County without the use of government funds, the C-PACER program facilitates loans between property owners and private lenders. The county's role is to record the loan as a lien on the property, ensuring that if the property is sold, the assessment remains with the building unless addressed during the sale.

Eligible property owners often reach out to us for help finding lenders to support their participation in the C-PACER program. To make this process easier and more transparent, we’re launching a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to build a publicly available roster of verified lenders. This will include banks, credit unions, Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), and private capital providers. The list will be publicly available and serve as a go-to resource for property owners looking for financing options.

Energize Contractor Applications

King County is seeking to expand its Contractor Roster to support the Energize program with funds from the Climate Commitment Act (CCA). Energize provides and installs electric appliances, plumbing improvements, home energy audits, and weatherization and efficiency services in eligible single-family homes and small businesses in King County. Applications are current requested from contractors that specialized in:
  • oil tank decommissioning
  • home energy audits
  • insultation, duct-sealing and air-sealing
Find application instructions and more information about the program here. 

Community Climate Resilience Grants

Applications are now open for Community Climate Resilience Grants. The Community Climate Resilience (CCR) Grant Program awards $5,000-$30,000 grants to 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.

To learn more about the program and how to apply, click here.

What to Expect:

Pre-Award

  • Notice of Award – Once the evaluation team has concluded its scoring process and made its funding decisions, ECO staff will distribute Notice Of Award communication to successful applicants, as well as notification of the outcome to unsuccessful applicants, via email.
  • Pre-Award Submittals – ECO staff will typically request a set of information and documents from successful applicants to start the contracting process, including:
    • King County Substitute W-9 Form (KC-W9)
    • Certificate(s) of Insurance and Endorsements
    • Contact information of organization’s Project Manager and Signing Official
    • Additional program submittals as assigned
  • Federal Subawards – An award of federal funds determined to be a subaward will require additional administrative steps including a debarment check and risk assessment. ECO will assign additional monitoring and training resources as necessary to ensure that the subrecipient organization can fully comply with federal statutes, regulations, and the terms and conditions of the subaward.
  • Contract Execution - ECO staff will finalize any clarifications to the Scope Of Work, application, and budget, then route a Contract via DocuSign for review and signature.

Post Award

  • Kickoff Meeting – Once the Contract is executed, ECO staff will schedule a kickoff meeting with the awarded organization to review contract requirements, responsibilities, communication, schedule, billing, reporting, and performance measurement.
  • Progress Meetings – Awardees should expect to participate in regular monthly progress meetings, virtually or in-person, which may occur more or less frequently at the discretion of the ECO Project Manager.
  • Reporting – ECO will assign interim and final project reports detailing completed, ongoing, and planned project activities, performance metrics, participant data, outputs, and outcomes.
  • Payment – Organizations may select the preferred method of payment, with ACH bank transfer being the most efficient and frequently selected. King County will promptly pay all properly submitted invoices for work accepted by the County within 30 days.

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