Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) - Region 8

The FY 2021 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) provides funding to close known capability gaps, encourages innovative regional solutions to issues related to catastrophic incidents, and builds on existing regional preparedness efforts. The purpose of the RCPGP is to build regional capacity to manage catastrophic incidents by improving and expanding collaboration for catastrophic incident preparedness. • The program supports the development and delivery of projects that address Community Lifelines, which are critical to managing catastrophic incidents. • Applicants are encouraged to develop projects that build a continuous cycle of planning, organizing, training, and exercising with regional partners across the whole community to improve their collective readiness posture. • The program requires that recipients develop and deliver one project that addresses specific capability gaps based on THIRA/SPR results. • Pandemic preparedness projects should identify the specific lifelines and capabilities that will be improved through the proposed project, and consider how regional preparedness capabilities may be impacted by a major disaster while dealing with an ongoing pandemic emergency.