Municipal Resilience Program
Building Montgomery County’s Pipeline of Investment-Ready Resilience Projects
Communities across Maryland—including Montgomery County—have made significant progress in identifying climate risks and developing resilience plans. Yet many resilience priorities never move beyond planning because they require additional project development, stakeholder engagement, technical analysis, and financing readiness before they are ready to attract capital or advance toward implementation.
The Montgomery County Green Bank’s (MCGB) Municipal Resilience Program (MRP) was created to bridge this gap.
Turning Resilience Plans Into Investment
The MRP is a project development and financing readiness initiative designed to strengthen MCGB’s resilience finance strategy by identifying investable resilience projects, advancing financing innovation, and building a pipeline of investment-ready resilience projects that support long-term resilience investment in Montgomery County.
By combining the nationally recognized Community Resilience Building (CRB) process with structured project development and financing readiness, the program helps participating municipalities identify priority resilience investments, evaluate implementation pathways, strengthen project readiness, and explore innovative financing approaches that accelerate investment and implementation.
While the program is rooted in Montgomery County, MCGB welcomes collaboration with municipalities across Maryland where partnerships advance resilience project development, financing readiness, and resilience finance innovation. These collaborations create mutual value by strengthening resilience outcomes for participating communities while informing future resilience investments within Montgomery County.
Developed in partnership with Quantified Ventures (QV) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC), and in consultation with State resilience partners, the Municipal Resilience Program demonstrates how strategic partnerships can bridge the gap between resilience planning and capital deployment.
Why the Municipal Resilience Program?
Climate resilience is no longer simply a planning challenge—it is increasingly a financing challenge.
Across Maryland, municipalities have identified resilience priorities but continue to encounter common barriers that prevent projects from advancing toward implementation and attracting investment.
These barriers often include:
Limited capacity for project development
Difficulty translating resilience plans into investable projects
Limited understanding of financing pathways
Limited access to implementation capital
Limited staff capacity to advance projects
The Municipal Resilience Program helps municipalities overcome these barriers by strengthening project development, financing readiness, and implementation planning so resilience priorities become investment-ready opportunities.
Program Overview
Participating municipalities receive structured support throughout the Community Resilience Building process, including:
Community Resilience Building (CRB) facilitation
Climate vulnerability and resilience assessments
Community engagement and stakeholder workshops
Identification and prioritization of resilience investments
Development of a Community Resilience Building Summary of Findings Report
Project definition and implementation planning
Financing readiness assessments
Evaluation of implementation pathways
Identification of potential capital sources and financing opportunities
Rather than ending with another planning document, municipalities complete the program with a stronger pipeline of investment-ready resilience projects positioned to pursue grants, financing, private investment, and implementation.
Eligible Resilience Investments
Examples include:
- Flood mitigation and floodplain management
- Stormwater management and green infrastructure
- Nature-based solutions
- Extreme heat mitigation
- Urban forestry and tree canopy expansion
- Water conservation and water quality improvements
- Living shorelines and stream restoration
- Energy resilience and backup power
- Distributed energy resources and microgrids
- Community resilience hubs
- Critical infrastructure protection
- Transportation resilience
- Emergency preparedness infrastructure
- Other climate adaptation and resilience initiatives
Partnership
The Municipal Resilience Program is delivered through a strategic partnership among organizations with complementary expertise. Together, the partnership integrates resilience planning, project development, financing readiness, and resilience finance into a single implementation-focused process.
Montgomery County Green Bank (MCGB)
MCGB serves as the program sponsor and resilience finance advisor, helping municipalities evaluate implementation pathways, strengthen financing readiness, and identify capital solutions that support resilient infrastructure investment.
Through its Protecting the Path to Net-Zero (PPNZ) strategy, MCGB is advancing market-based financing approaches that help communities reduce climate risk while supporting the transition to a net-zero economy. By developing innovative financial products, leveraging public and private capital, and building a pipeline of investment-ready resilience projects, MCGB is demonstrating how climate adaptation and decarbonization can be financed together to create more resilient, sustainable communities.
Quantified Ventures (QV)
QV leads project development, municipal finance analysis, financial structuring, and financing readiness, helping municipalities translate resilience priorities into investment-ready resilience projects.
QV is a climate and environmental finance firm that designs and implements innovative financing solutions for resilience, water infrastructure, natural climate solutions, and community development.
The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
TNC leads the nationally recognized CRB process, providing facilitation, resilience planning methodology, stakeholder engagement, and community-driven project identification.
TNC is a global conservation organization dedicated to conserving the lands and waters on which all life depends. Through the Municipal Resilience Program, TNC leads the nationally recognized Community Resilience Building process, helping municipalities engage stakeholders, identify resilience priorities, and establish the foundation for project development and future resilience investment.
Funding & Financing
Completion of the Municipal Resilience Program does not guarantee financing through the MCGB or any other funding source.
Instead, the program prepares municipalities to pursue the implementation pathway most appropriate for their projects by strengthening project development, financing readiness, and investment competitiveness.
Potential capital pathways include:
Municipal capital budgets
State funding programs
Federal grants
Philanthropic funding
Public-private partnerships
Private investment
MCGB financing, where appropriate and consistent with MCGB’s mission, governance, underwriting standards, and available funding sources
Current Request for Responses
MCGB is currently accepting applications for the inaugural Municipal Resilience Program cohort.
Application Deadline: August 17, 2026 – 4:00 PM ET
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Frequently Asked Questions
Maryland municipalities interested in advancing resilience project development and financing readiness are encouraged to review the Request for Responses for detailed eligibility requirements.
Participating municipalities are expected to provide approximately 100 hours of in-kind staff support throughout the Community Resilience Building process and related project development activities.
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The Municipal Resilience Program is a project development and financing readiness initiative, not a grant program. The program helps municipalities transform resilience priorities into investment-ready resilience projects and identify the capital pathways needed to advance them.
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Successful completion of the program does not guarantee financing through MCGB or any other funding source.
The objective is to strengthen project readiness, improve financing competitiveness, and better position resilience projects to attract investment and advance toward implementation.
The Community Resilience Building process is a nationally recognized planning methodology that helps communities identify climate risks, engage stakeholders, prioritize resilience investments, and develop practical implementation strategies.
The Municipal Resilience Program is rooted in Montgomery County and was created to strengthen MCGB’s resilience finance strategy.
MCGB also recognizes that many resilience challenges transcend jurisdictional boundaries. Collaboration with municipalities across Maryland helps advance innovative project development practices, strengthen financing readiness, evaluate scalable financing approaches, and build strategic partnerships that create value for participating communities while informing future resilience investments within Montgomery County.
