OVERVIEW

The California Resilience Partnership’s Project Preparation Program (CRP-PPP) will support communities in advancing infrastructure projects that build equity and resilience and show great promise for community impact by preparing these projects to capitalize upon unprecedented levels of federal and state funding.

The passage of the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act, and of California’s historic 2021 and 2022 State budget, have unlocked a once in a generation amount of federal and state resources to support critical infrastructure investments. The need for these investments has never been more urgent, as communities across the state face mounting existential climate risks and historic inequality only exacerbated by the pandemic. The CRP Project Preparation Program aims to ensure that communities most in need of these investments can overcome barriers and achieve inter-generalization impact.

Program scope within a typical infrastructure project cycle

The Program will identify promising, community-supported projects and work with partners and key stakeholders to:

Project leaders from selected communities may receive: 

This program is funded to cover the following activities:

We are pleased to invite local and regional public entities, non-profit organizations, and community based organizations that own and are preparing to implement climate- and equity-focused infrastructure projects. We will select the inaugural projects based in the Greater Los Angeles and Sacramento regions in California. If you would like to submit a project for the program, please use the ‘Nominate a Project’ tab.

Please view the program eligibility criteria below before nominating a project.

 For more information on community eligibility and tools to help identify vulnerable communities that meet the criteria described above, please visit our FAQ.

PROJECT ELIGIBILITY

In addition, project owners will aspire to incorporate the following principles as part of this process:

PROJECT LEADER ELIGIBILITY

Eligible project leaders include:

** State and Federal agencies are NOT eligible to apply for this program but can be a sub-contracted partner with a consortium of local public or non-profit entities.

All applications will be reviewed by the Resilient Cities Catalyst (RCC) team, under the guidance of California Resilience Partnership's (CRP) Advisory Board.

The team will use the eligibility criteria outlined above to guide the selection of two pilot projects in the Greater Los Angeles and Sacramento regions by early November, 2022.

The timeline for the nomination and selection process is as follows:

Selected Project leaders will receive additional information about the project development process, including a kick-off and project initiation call. Please review the eligibility for selection and click on the ‘Nominate a Project’ tab to nominate a project for the program.

Please complete the form below to the best of your knowledge and provide relevant documentation as indicated or needed.

You can also view our FAQ section and/or reach out to us at contact@rcc.city.

Please note: This form cannot be saved and hence needs to be completed in one sitting. So we encourage project leaders to navigate through the form, collect all the information prior to submitting a response.

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