To Support Community Investment in Climate Innovation, The PG&E Corporation Foundation Funds New Three-Year Grant Program
August 04 2022 - 2:21PM
Business Wire
New Grants are in Addition to Program that
Supports Resilience Hubs, Emergency Response
The PG&E Corporation Foundation (Foundation) has launched a
new grant program that will offer communities across Northern and
Central California up to $1.5 million over three years to support
environmental stewardship.
Climate change is threatening California’s natural
environment—and these grants will help enable communities to
mobilize around and invest in solutions that can begin to address
this challenge. The new program is designed to support resilient
solutions that are both innovative and replicable, so that they can
be shared as widely as possible to build more sustainable habitats
and communities.
For 2022, the Better Together Nature Positive
Innovation grant program will award up to $500,000 total—in
five $100,000 regional grants—to fund projects that address the
environmental stewardship focus areas of land stewardship, air
quality, and water stewardship. One grant will be awarded for each
of the five regions of Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s
(PG&E’s) service area.
These grants are offered in addition to the Resilience Hubs
grant program, now in its second year. This program is designed
to help communities create a physical space or set of resources
that supports community resilience—such as access to power,
shelter, and information—to climate-driven disruptions, including
wildfires, and Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) events. Once
developed, these “resilience hubs” can also be accessed year-round
as a community resource.
For 2022, the Resilience Hubs grant program will award $400,000
total in grants at both the $25,000 and $100,000 level. These
grants will be funded by PG&E shareholders as part of the
company’s investments in statewide wildfire resiliency and
response, in accordance with a mandate from the California Public
Utilities Commission.
“The need for California communities to find ways to meet the
challenge of climate change will only accelerate in the coming
years,” said Carla Peterman, Executive Vice President, Corporate
Affairs and Chief Sustainability Officer for PG&E Corporation
and Chair of the Board of The PG&E Corporation Foundation.
“These programs are designed to help the hometowns we serve to
develop sustainable and equitable strategies that cities, towns,
and tribal communities across the state can learn from and
emulate.”
Priority for both grant programs will be given to projects that
address the needs of disadvantaged and/or vulnerable communities.
Strategies and solutions resulting from the grants will be made
publicly available to help all communities and encourage local and
regional partnerships.
Better Together Nature Positive Innovation proposals may
cover any stage of an environmental stewardship project, including
but not limited to planning, construction, design, education, and
coordination.
Resilience Hub proposals may include conducting a
feasibility analysis to assess resilience hub needs through local
engagement, planning and design of physical spaces, or mobile
resources that will provide community resilience benefit, or
retrofits of existing buildings or structures to support community
resilience.
To be eligible, applicants to either program must be a
governmental organization (including tribal governments),
educational institution, or 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
Learn more about the Better Together Nature Positive Innovation
grant program.
Learn more about the Resilience Hubs grant program.
About PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E
Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is a combined natural gas and electric
utility serving more than 16 million people across 70,000 square
miles in Northern and Central California. For more information,
visit pge.com and pge.com/news.
About the PG&E Corporation Foundation
The PG&E Corporation Foundation is an independent 501(c)(3)
nonprofit organization, separate from PG&E and sponsored by
PG&E Corporation.
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