12 Local Organizations Selected for $900,000 in Grants to Fund Environmental Stewardship and Climate Resilience Projects
December 14 2022 - 1:35PM
Business Wire
Grant Programs from PG&E and The PG&E
Corporation Foundation Support Key Investments in Climate Action
for Local Communities
Building upon a long history of climate action and environmental
stewardship, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and The
PG&E Corporation Foundation (Foundation) have awarded $900,000
across two grant programs intended to support climate resilience
efforts in PG&E’s hometowns, while also protecting and
restoring land, water, and air in habitats and communities across
California.
- Through the Better Together Nature Positive Innovation grant
program, the Foundation will be awarding $500,000 to five
grantees – one in each of PG&E’s five regions – that preserve
California’s unique biodiversity, focusing on land, air quality,
and water stewardship.
- Separately, through the Resilience Hubs grant program,
PG&E is issuing $400,000 to seven grantees to support
communities in building a network of local climate resilience hubs.
Both grant programs prioritize projects that address the needs of
disadvantaged and/or vulnerable communities.
“When PG&E issued our Climate Strategy Report earlier this
year, we recognized that our approach to climate action must be
twofold – we have to become more resilient to the impacts being
felt today, while also working to heal the planet and avoid the
impacts of tomorrow. Through these two grant programs, we’re
pleased to work collaboratively with organizations in our hometowns
to address both of these challenges with a focus on equity,” 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.
Better Together Nature Positive Innovation Grants
As one of the largest landowners in California, PG&E has a
long history of responsible stewardship of the natural environment.
Through the Better Together Nature Positive Innovation grant
program, the Foundation is reinforcing its focus on environmental
stewardship and pursuing opportunities to invest in partnerships
that will promote protecting and restoring land, water, and air in
habitats and communities across our service area.
For 2022, the Better Together Nature Positive Innovation grant
program has awarded five $100,000 grants to the following
organizations:
- 4th Second – creating ecosystem services and healthy
food access in South Vallejo.
- Central Coast State Parks Association – increasing the
exposure of underserved K-12 students to coastal habitats.
- City of Fresno, Department of Transportation –
supporting public transportation and emissions reduction.
- Family Harvest Farm – developing a regenerative urban
farm in an area food desert.
- Seigler Springs Community Redevelopment Association –
providing traditional watershed resource management training and
support.
“We appreciate The PG&E Corporation Foundation for
recognizing our proposal to engage and work with property owners
along the Cobb Area Watershed, which feeds directly into Clear
Lake. This stewardship project targets watershed management
practices in the Cobb Mountain community by recruiting local
property owners to participate in “hands-on” workshops interweaving
resource management training with direct actions to match site
conditions and landowner concerns. Every workshop we hold involves
tribal knowledge holders and teachers, who will combine their
expertise with that of other topical specialists,” said Eliot
Hurwitz, Executive Director of the Seigler Springs Community
Redevelopment Association.
For more information about the Better Together Nature Positive
Innovation grant program, click here.
Resilience Hubs Grants
Recognizing that communities across California face growing
threats from extreme weather events such as coastal and inland
flooding, heat waves, wildfires, and more powerful storms, the
Resilience Hubs grant program seeks to fund and establish physical
spaces, or a set of resources, that support community resilience in
the face of these climate-driven events. Once developed, these hubs
can also be accessed year-round to build and sustain
community-adaptive capacity in a trusted location.
For 2022, the Resilience Hubs grant program has awarded $400,000
to the seven organizations listed below. 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 program awarded $25,000 each to four Feasibility
Projects to fund an assessment of resilience hub needs and/or
conceptual ideas for a resilience hub:
- LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired –
studying the feasibility of creating a resilience hub at Enchanted
Hills Camp for the blind and visually impaired.
- Little Manila Rising – assessing the creation of a hub
at an existing local community center.
- Mattole Restoration Council – studying community needs
for a resilience center in Lower Mattole.
- North Valley Community Foundation – identifying and
evaluating a network of sites across Butte County.
Additionally, the program awarded $100,000 each to three
Design and Build Projects toward the design and/or creation of
a resilience hub. Through these projects, the organizations will
either plan and design new physical spaces or mobile resources, or
retrofit existing buildings or structures to support community
resilience:
- Marin Center for Independent Living – providing an
on-site and digital hub to assist people living with disabilities
during emergencies.
- Support Life Foundation – retrofitting an existing
building into a resilience hub with solar panels, batteries, and
other upgrades.
- Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano – installing two
refrigerated container units for deployable meals for food insecure
individuals during emergency situations.
“The Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano is thrilled to receive
funding to strengthen our partners’ ability to serve their
communities, especially in times of acute crisis. By storing
emergency food in central locations, we will ensure the community
has access to critical services—without delay,” said Joel Sjostrom,
President and CEO of the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano.
For more information about the Resilience Hubs grant program,
click here.
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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