CARB to award $7.3 million in grants to support community transportation planning

What you need to know: Applications are open for Community Planning and Capacity Building Grants. Up to $7.3 million is available, with individual grants up to $500,000. New this year: funding is more accessible to tribal governments.  CARB to award $7.3 million in grants to support community transportation planning | California Air Resources Board
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How we got here

The grants are part of California Climate Investments, a statewide initiative that puts billions of Cap-and-Invest dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy, and improving public health and the environment—particularly in disadvantaged communities.

Additional information  2025 Planning and Capacity Building Request for Applications | California Air Resources Board

• Application Deadline: February 10, 2026

• Q&A Sessions:

• January 8, 2026

• Tribal Applicants: 10:00–11:00 a.m.

• All Applicants: 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
• Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/CBwdsW9XQ6aRLsHR9hKfzg
• January 27, 2026

• Tribal Applicants: 2:00–3:00 p.m.

• All Applicants: 3:00–4:00 p.m.
• Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/nAiPadDPSd67ZhQNE8bDeA

Free support is available through CARB’s Planning and Capacity Building Administrator team. To be guaranteed technical assistance, applicants must complete the Technical Assistance Survey by January 23, 2026.

Visit CARB’s Planning and Capacity Building RFA page for the full RFA, required forms, and templates.

Funding is available for projects focused on clean mobility transportation planning, community transportation needs assessments, community capacity building, outreach, workforce training and development, ongoing technical assistance, and other critical community-led clean mobility investment needs.

Previous grantees, such as Circle of Life Development Foundation’s MLKcommUNITY project in Bakersfield: 

Sustainable Transportation Equity Project (STEP)

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) awarded COLDf's Rebound the MLKCommUNITY a Sustainable Transportation Equity Project Grant to conduct a planning effort to identify clean transportation needs and opportunities in neighborhoods within Southeast Bakersfield.

The Rebound the MLKCommUNITY project will educate the community about clean transportation options and empower residents to develop a roadmap and implementation strategy centered on mobility equity.

The Rebound the MLKCommUNITY project is part of California Climate Investments, a statewide program that puts billions of Cap-and-Trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy, and improving public health and the environment — particularly in disadvantaged communities. Rebound the MLKCommUNITY | COLDf

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