The Resilient Energy Economies (REE) initiative, headquartered at Resources for the Future (RFF), is a research effort focused on the critically important topic of better understanding how fossil fuel-dependent communities—those that are largely reliant on coal, oil, or natural gas production—are experiencing, and impacted by, the transition to low-carbon energy systems. REE is led by an excellent group of early career scholars, drawn from different disciplines, institutions, and research backgrounds. The current team of co-organizers includes Daniel Raimi, Director of the Equity in the Energy Transition Initiative at RFF; Noah Kaufman, Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University; Julia Haggerty, Associate Professor of Resource Geography at Montana State University; and Emily Grubert, Associate Professor of Sustainable Energy Policy at the University of Notre Dame. This grant supports REE as it continues and expands its research agenda. REE will hold an open Request for Proposals (RFP) to support a series of place-based research projects that examine the economic and social dimensions associated with how fossil fuel-dependent communities are experiencing energy transitions, allocating a total of $450,000 across 6-11 small research projects. Research topics to be emphasized in the open RFP include issues like how employment opportunities are changing in fossil fuel communities, examining the distributional impacts on households with different demographic features, evaluating the effects of state-level policies, and exploring the relationship between state and federal policy impacts. Grant funds will also support the organization of two researcher convenings per year as well the expansion of REE’s project management capacity by hiring a new program manager.