Sen. Curry celebrates Community Action Grants awarded to municipalities and service providers in Waldo County

Posted: May 20, 2025 | Senator Curry

The funds awarded will support storm recovery and resilience projects that protect Maine’s cities and towns protect people, businesses and infrastructure  

AUGUSTA — Sen. Chip Curry, D-Belfast, is pleased to announce that municipalities and service provider organizations in Senate District 11 are the recipients of Community Action Grant awards from the Community Resilience Partnership. The partnership is administered by the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future to help Maine communities reduce emissions and prepare for the effects of extreme weather events brought on by climate change.

The grant recipients, amounts and project titles are:

  • Belfast – $48,600 – Belfast Habor Master Building Modernization Project
  • Brooks – $21,898 – Improving Energy Efficiency and Communications in Brooks
  • Isleboro – $80,000 – Community-Driven Nature-Based Solutions for Adaptation of Vulnerable Life-Line Coastal Infrastructure
  • Montville – $75,000 – Solar Capacity Increase with Heating Retrofit to Offset Municipal Costs for all Town Buildings
  • Northport – $75,000 – Shoreline Stabilization, Landscape Architecture, and Project Management in Bayview Park
  • Stockton Springs – $72,435 – Energy Efficiency and Community Garden for Stockton Springs
  • Maine Community Resilience Associates – $59,987 – Funding to help enroll Hampden, Winterport, Orrington, Newburgh and Frankfort in the Community Resilience Partnership
  • Midcoast Council of Governments – $50,000 – Funding to help enroll Friendship, Liberty, Lincolnville and Searsmont in the Community Reslience Partnership
  • Midcoast Council of Governments – $22,500 – Funding to conduct Community Vulernability Assesments in Warren and Stockton Springs

“Mainers have a long and proud history of putting in the work to weather the storm,” said Sen. Curry. “As extreme weather becomes all too frequent — impacting not just our coastal communities, but all of Waldo County — having the resources to help our area adapt is critical to protecting our way of life and continuing building a stronger future.”

Funding for the grants came from several sources, including measures passed by the Maine Legislature with Sen. Curry’s support:

  • The Supplemental Budget that was passed by the Legislature in 2024 to increase community resilience and preparedness in the wake of the December 2023 and January 2024 storms;
  • Funds from the biennial budget authorized by the Legislature in 2023; and
  • A federal grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The grants in District 11 are part of a historic $8 million in Community Resilience Partnership grant funding announced by Governor Janet Mills on May 1, 2025. This round of funding will support projects in 166 communities across Maine. For a full list of grant awardees, click here.

Sen. Curry is serving his third term in the Maine Senate, representing all of Waldo County. He serves as the Senate Chair of the Housing and Economic Development Committee and sits on the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee.