AIM Wildfire Program Grant

Coalitions and Collaboratives Inc. (COCO),hopes to increase community resilience, restore fire-adapted ecosystems and create safer conditions for residents and firefighters. This funding opportunity is open to organizations working to advance wildfire risk reduction.

The AIM grant is available for a wide variety of capacity-building activities, including personnel, planning efforts and wildfire risk reduction work on non-federal lands. 

COCO funds organizations across the country with a focus on programs and projects that increase communities’ ability to overcome barriers to successful community wildfire mitigation, multiplies the efforts, achieves quantifiable outcomes, supports equitable and inclusive community wildfire mitigation programs across the fence, and supports place-based solutions.

COCO will be looking to fund a variety of different types of projects across the country. Applicants must demonstrate how their proposal fits into the larger community wildfire strategy, including coordination with federal partners on nearby public lands. Applicants must contribute a 100% match (cash or in-kind match is eligible).  Award funding may range from $10,000 – $75,000. Grants are contracted for a period of one year. 

Who is Eligible: The organization must have a nonprofit (501c3) status or have a nonprofit or local government fiscal sponsor.

The AIM team will be reviewing Concept Papers in November and inviting organizations to the final application due in December. All applicants can expect to be notified of their project selection or non-selection no later than January 2023.

You MUST watch the Informational, Question, and Answer Webinar HERE.