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FY 2022-23 Clean Mobility in Schools (CMIS) and the Sustainable Transportation Equity Project (STEP)

Air Resources Board · 41573

Eligibility details

Eligible Lead Applicants include community-based organizations, local governments (including public school districts), and tribal governments. Eligible Sub-applicants include many different types of public, private, or nonprofit organizations that will directly implement projects. Each application must include partnerships between a Lead Applicant, Sub-applicants, and Community Partners. Refer to page 13 of the RFA for more information.

Matching funds & resources

Source matching-funds field: Not Required.

Matching funds and leveraged resources are different requirements. Read the description and reviewed rules below before determining resource commitments.

About this opportunity

CMIS and STEP grants fund a variety of planning and capacity building, clean transportation, and supporting projects that work together to increase transportation equity and achieve the community’s vision by addressing community-identified needs, increasing access to key destinations and services, and reducing GHG emissions and passenger vehicle miles traveled. These programs have the flexibility to fund many different types of projects to ensure that CARB funds can help meet the needs of each community within that community’s context. CMIS projects include planning for and implementation of shared mobility projects, active transportation projects, school-related zero-emission fleets, school buses, and landscaping equipment. Additionally, capacity building efforts such as education programs, training programs, and curriculum development have tremendous potential when incorporated into CMIS projects. STEP projects include new or expanded public transit and shared mobility services; active transportation infrastructure; and workforce development, planning, and capacity building activities that support clean transportation and transportation equity. For a full list of example project types, refer to page 17 of the Request for Applications (RFA). This RFA is a two-phase process. First, Applicants will apply to the Concept Phase by September 8, 2023. The Concept Phase is intended to reduce the resources needed to apply for funding while still providing sufficient information for CARB to evaluate the proposed projects. Interested parties must apply to the Concept Phase to be considered for the Full Phase and eventual funding awards. Technical assistance is available to support potential Applicants. To receive guaranteed technical assistance, Applicants must sign up by August 11, 2023, but Applicants are encouraged to sign up as soon as possible to begin receiving assistance earlier in the application process.

Funding geography: Each application must identify and describe the Project Community, which is the geographic area that will be the focus of the project benefits. More than 50 percent of the geographic area of the Project Community must be within low-income or disadvantaged community census tracts.

Funding instrument: Grant. Issuing jurisdiction: California. This is not a geographic eligibility determination.