California Community Resilience Centers Round 2 — Planning Grants

Funding$100,000-$500,000 per Planning Grant; approximately $5 million available for Planning awards.

DeadlinePlanning Grant application period closed September 4, 2026 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time. The separate CRC Round 2 Implementation Grant remains open through September 30, 2026 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time.

Last verifiedSeptember 5, 2026

Required next actionDo not start a new Planning Grant application for Round 2. Preserve this record as future-cycle intelligence and, for organizations with implementation-ready projects, evaluate the separate CRC Round 2 Implementation Grant, which remains open through September 30, 2026 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time. Monitor California Strategic Growth Council for future CRC planning rounds.

Broad Eligibility

Eligible Lead Applicants include California public/local agencies, nonprofit organizations, special districts, joint powers authorities, California Native American Tribes, public utilities/local publicly owned utilities, and mutual water companies as specified in the CRC Round 2 Guidelines. The Guidelines’ local-agency definition includes school districts.

Atlas Analysis

Atlas Opportunity Score 84/100 for the now-closed planning round. N9+ Direct Vendor Fit 25/100. The Round 2 Planning Grant application window closed September 4, 2026 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time and SGC does not accept late applications or revisions after the deadline. The separate CRC Round 2 Implementation Grant remains active through September 30, 2026 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time and is the actionable pathway for implementation-ready eligible teams.

The California Strategic Growth Council Community Resilience Centers (CRC) Round 2 Planning Grant application period closed September 4, 2026 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time. Approximately $5 million was available for Planning awards of $100,000 to $500,000, with a two-year grant term. Eligible planning activities included partnership development, community needs assessments, feasibility and site studies, permitting, fiscal-impact analysis, climate-action planning, and community-engagement planning.

Atlas now preserves this record as future-cycle intelligence rather than presenting it as an active application. California SGC states that late Planning Grant applications and revisions after the deadline are not accepted.

Actionable related opportunity: the separate CRC Round 2 Implementation Grant remains open through September 30, 2026 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time. Implementation-ready eligible organizations should evaluate that pathway instead of attempting a late Planning Grant submission.

CRC facilities and partner sites can serve community resilience functions that intersect with schools, public health, and community care. California school districts are included within the program’s definition of local public agencies. Because the closed Planning Grant supported planning rather than implementation, N9+ and QC Healthcare fit remained conditional and limited to defensible future healthcare-service design.

Source verificationOfficial government source · sgc.ca.govAtlas last verified this record September 5, 2026. Always use the funder's current application materials, amendments and portal instructions as the controlling source.View source and application materials ↗