Grants
Grants
Looking for support to participate in LOCAL SOLUTIONS?
We have mobilized these grant opportunities to facilitate access to LOCAL SOLUTIONS. We are offering CM credits for AICP certification for select conference sessions.
Check out these opportunities below.
FREE registration:
Thanks to an anonymous donor, local government employees and representatives of small- and medium-sized businesses are eligible for special funding to cover the full registration cost of attending Local Solutions: Eastern Regional Climate Preparedness Conference April 4–6 in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. This capacity-building conference, hosted by Antioch University New England’s Center for Climate Preparedness and Community Resilience in partnership with EPA, aims to help communities build resilience for climate-related challenges and severe weather events. It includes dedicated business continuity and education summits, tours of hallmark projects in the Baltimore area, and numerous resources for local government decision-makers, businesses, and others.
This is a great opportunity for: city and town administrators, managers, and elected or appointed officials and decision makers; regional planning councils; emergency preparedness personnel; public works, planning and parks and recreation staff; county government employees; conservation commissions; and code and zoning personnel, and representatives of small- and medium-sized businesses.
For more information and how to apply, please click HERE
Travel Grants:
Maryland
Grants are open to leaders and residents from Maryland with preference to municipal employees, elected or appointed municipal decision-makers, county government employees, regional planning council personnel, and Maryland’s Commission on Climate Change. FOR more details about the grant, please click HERE. To apply to this travel grant, please click HERE.
Vermont
Vermont League of Cities and Towns’ (VLCT) Applications Now Available. Apply HERE by at least 30 days prior to the conference, or by March 4, 2016. The Vermont League of Cities and Towns’ (VLCT) Property and Casualty Intermunicipal Fund (PACIF) offers support for participation in the LOCAL SOLUTIONS conference through their 2016 Scholarship Program. Please be advised that there are guidelines and limits to the program (Please click HERE for GUIDELINES). About 90% of Vermont municipalities are eligible for this program if they have not already used it for something else.
Other States
Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, Vermont Travel Grants Applications. Apply HERE
Includes up to $1,000 per person, with preference given to decision makers such as city/town manager; mayor/council members; emergency preparedness personnel, public works personnel, planning staff, road agent, parks and recreation staff, or members of zoning boards, planning boards, historic district commissions, conservation commissions and regional planning commissions.
Thank you to our Travel Grant sponsors!
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