The Bay Area Council Foundation has launched a request for proposals for the California Resilience Challenge 2022 Grant Program, a statewide initiative to support innovative climate adaptation planning projects that strengthen local resilience to wildfire, drought, flood, and extreme heat events in under-resourced communities.
Donor Name: Bay Area Council Foundation
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 09/14/2022
Grant Size: up to $200,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
The California Resilience Challenge 2022 Grant Program will provide resources to local communities throughout the state, including community-based organizations, cities, counties, California Native American tribes, special districts, and other local and regional jurisdictions representing under-resourced communities. By emphasizing local solutions to the global problem of climate change, communities can create scalable plans and infrastructure to meet their immediate and long-term climate adaptation needs.
Funding Information
Selected proposals will be for specific planning projects that will commence on or before July 31, 2023 and are to be completed by July 31, 2025. It is CRC’s expectation that individual grants will be awarded for between $100,000 and $200,000, but CRC reserves the right to make smaller or larger grants, and the right to award less than the maximum amount of its Grant Fund.
Eligibility Criteria
California-based non-government organizations, including community-based organizations, representing under-resourced communities are encouraged to apply, as are local California public entities that represent under-resourced communities. CRC intends “under-resourced communities” to include and prioritize the following communities that are susceptible to the impacts of climate change and face large barriers to accessing public funds, while also adjusting for significant cost-of-living variations throughout the state.
- “Disadvantaged communities” as defined by CalEnviroScreen (Health and Safety Code Section 39711);
- “Low-income communities”, defined as census tracts with median household incomes at or below 80% of the statewide median income or with median household incomes at or below the threshold designated as low income by the Department of Housing and Community Development’s list of state income limits (Health and Safety Code 39713);
- “Disadvantaged communities”, defined as a community with a median household income less than 80% of the statewide average; and “severely disadvantaged communities”, defined as a community with a median household income less than 60% of the statewide average” (Public Resources Code 75005);
- Frontline communities and underrepresented communities, which are those that experience continuing injustice—including people of color, immigrants, people with lower incomes, those in rural areas, and indigenous people; and
- “Climate vulnerable communities,” as defined in the Governor’s OPR resource, Defining Vulnerable Communities in the Context of Climate Adaptation.
For more information, visit Bay Area Council Foundation.
