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Now Available! Fall 2025 CBEP Resilience and Monitoring Grants
Casco Bay Estuary Partnership (CBEP) would like to announce the Fall 2025 round of CBEP Resilience & Monitoring Grants.
Grant funding of up to $25,000 per project is available for communities and organizations to support initiatives that enhance climate resilience, ecosystem health, and environmental monitoring within the Casco Bay Watershed. You can see examples of current projects on this page.
Here is the Request for Applications (RFA). Please read thoroughly and contact us if you have any questions, or attend the webinar (see link below).
The RFA encompasses three grant programs:
1. Casco Bay Resilient Communities Grants: Projects that advance planning or strengthen networks to increase community resilience.
2. Casco Bay Resilient Habitats Grants: Projects that advance the restoration or enhancement of aquatic habitats with the intent of building ecosystem resilience.
3. Casco Bay Monitoring Infrastructure Grants: Projects that increase the capacity to collect environmental data in Casco Bay.
Each grant program has unique application requirements.
Pre-application Due Date: January 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
All applicants must submit an initial Pre-application to determine suitability for development of a Full Application. The Pre-application form can be found here.
Informational Webinar: October 15, 2025 from 12 Noon to 1:00pm
Link to Webinar
A recording and FAQ will be posted on this page.
Questions? Contact: Natalie Bingham: natalie.bingham@maine.edu; 207-780-4306
Spring 2025 Resilience & Monitoring Awards
Casco Bay Estuary Partnership (CBEP) has awarded more than $321,000 to twelve communities and nonprofit organizations in the Casco Bay Watershed. CBEP is providing these funds through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).
“These projects empower local communities to tackle climate challenges while contributing valuable data to guide future action,ˮ said Curtis Bohlen, CBEP Executive Director.
Grantees and projects:
- Bowdoin College: Establishing a long-term water quality monitoring station in Harpswell Sound at the Schiller Coastal Studies Center.
- Brunswick Topsham Land Trust: Upper Middle Bay Marsh (Brunswick) resiliency project
- City of Portland, Office of Economic Opportunity: Bridging cultures for climate resilience: A community needs assessment
- Downeast Institute: Extending the soft-shell clam recruitment monitoring network throughout Casco Bay
- Freeport Conservation Trust: Cousins River marsh restoration project
- Gateway Community Services Maine: Building youth capacity for environmental monitoring and climate leadership
- Island Institute: The Casco Bay Islands Resilience Collective: Strengthening Casco Bay Island collaboration for shoreline resilience and nature-based solutions
- Kennebec Estuary Land Trust: Evaluating and planning for remediation of agricultural impacts in the Casco Bay marshes of Phippsburg and West Bath
- Maine Audubon: Harraseeket River CoastWise Planning – Frost Gully Brook and Mill Stream Tidal Crossings
- Maine Coast Heritage Trust: Monitoring Support for Casco Bay Estuary Salt Marsh Restoration
- Maine Rivers: Restoring Connectivity in the Royal River Watershed: Development of an Action Plan
- Peaks Island Action Team (PEAT): Peaks Island Working Group Formation
- University of Southern Maine: Increasing capacity to monitor nutrients and road salts in the Casco Bay Watershed.
