The California Strategic Growth Council (SGC) is pleased to announce the availability of funding for Round 1 of the Regional Climate Collaboratives (RCC) Program through this Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA).
Donor Name: California Strategic Growth Council (SGC)
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 07/15/2022
Size of the Grant: $8.35 million
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
The Regional Climate Collaboratives (RCC) Program is a new capacity building grant program for under-resourced communities. RCC funds community-rooted and cross-sectoral partners to deepen their relationships and develop the processes, plans, and projects that will drive and sustain climate action.
The goal of the program is to strengthen local coordination, leadership, knowledge, skills, and expertise with a particular focus on increasing access to funding resources for project planning and implementation within under-resourced communities. RCC was designed to serve both emerging and established Collaboratives across the state, so Applicants can tailor their proposals based on their size and community context. RCC grant terms are three years.
Program Objectives
All RCC Program activities must build the capacity of selected under-resourced communities within a region to secure funding for climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience projects. Regardless of selected strategies and activities, Applicants must ensure they address each of the following program objectives:
- Develop Actionable Plans and Projects: Activities conducted by Applicants will lead to the development (or update) of local plans as well as climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience projects that can be implemented if project funding is secured. Grant activities will build the local network capacity necessary for Collaborative members to develop competitive grant proposals.
- Build Social Infrastructure: Applicants must demonstrate how the proposed activities will build enduring and trusting relationships across members of the Collaborative, residents, and other stakeholder groups, and how the grant will support better regional coordination on the development and implementation of climate-related projects and applications.
- Center Community Engagement & Decision Making: Applicants must work with community members and stakeholders through direct engagement. Applicants must involve residents and key stakeholders from selected under-resourced communities within the Applicant’s region in all phases of project implementation, with a focus on populations that have historically been excluded from decision making and implementation processes. Applicants must also use proven methods of engagement to facilitate direct participation of community residents, including ensuring translation of meetings and materials, scheduling meetings at times and locations that are convenient to community members, and engaging community members in information gathering as well as outreach.
- Develop Equity-centered Processes: Applicants must demonstrate how the proposed activities will develop or improve local processes for under-resourced community residents, community-based organizations, and Tribes to co-lead decisions made about climate change related priorities and projects at the local and/or regional level.
Funding Information
SGC anticipates that $8.35 million will be available for competitive awards in this funding round.
Eligible Applicants
Eligible Applicants for a Collaborative include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following:
- California Native American Tribes
- Community-based organizations
- Joint powers authorities
- Local government agencies
- Nonprofits and foundations
- Small businesses
- Other organizations with a history of providing community-based outreach or TA. These organizations may look different depending on each Applicant’s local and regional context. It is up to Applicants to determine which organizations play this role in their community. Possible examples include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following:
- Academic institutions
- Community Choice Aggregates
- Faith-based organizations
- Farming cooperatives and land trusts
- Neighborhood associations
- Resource conservation districts
- Tribal-serving organizations
For more information, visit Regional Climate Collaboratives Program.
