Community Action Grant

There are two (2) eligible types of applicants for the Community Action Grant: 

1. Individual Communities, a municipal government, tribal government, plantation, township, or unorganized territory in Maine, who are enrolled in the Community Resilience Partnership. a. Applicants may submit enrollment materials through the enrollment portal simultaneously with submitting their grant application. (Unorganized territories, townships, and plantations are eligible and are strongly encouraged to work with a Service Provider to complete the enrollment process.) 
2. Multiple Communities may apply jointly for projects that address mutual goals and have interrelated scopes of work. 
   1. All communities participating in the application must be enrolled in the Partnership at the time the grant application is submitted or submit enrollment materials through the enrollment portal simultaneously with the grant application. 
   2. Service Providers may apply on behalf of communities. Letters of support must be provided from each community. 
   3. In a multi-community application, the communities are required to designate a lead applicant. The lead applicant is expected to receive the grant funds and manage the contracting and grant reporting on behalf of the partner communities. The communities may wish to have a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that spells out the responsibilities of each community. If an MOU is established, MOCA may request a copy of the document during the grant contracting phase. School districts, water and sewer districts, neighborhood associations, and similar entities are not eligible to be primary applicants and are encouraged to partner with a municipality or other eligible entity described above.