Silicon Valley Power is accepting applications for its Community Outreach Grants for Energy Efficiency and Building Electrification Education.
Donor Name: Silicon Valley Power
State: California
City: Santa Clara
Type of Grant: Grant
Size of the Grant: $10,000
Grant Period: 12 months
Deadline: 12/31/2022
Details:
Silicon Valley Power is offering grants up to $10,000 for not-for-profit community-based organizations to identify and provide outreach to underserved residential and small business customers, with an emphasis on diversity, equity and inclusion. Examples include but are not limited to educational videos, online resources, printed outreach materials, webinars or workshops. Content must promote energy efficiency and building electrification. Silicon Valley Power will provide grant recipients with training on its available programs for customers.
Proposals must include a plan to provide outreach on energy efficiency and building electrification concepts and their benefits to targeted Silicon Valley Power residential or small business customers. Outreach should be targeted at adults since they have decision-making authority. Plans should have an emphasis on diversity, equity and/or inclusion in reaching underserved or hard to reach customer
segments.
Eligibility Criteria
- The program is open to not-for-profit community-based organizations or not-for-profit clubs serving residents or small businesses within the City of Santa Clara’s city limits.
- Grants up to $10,000 per organization
- Limit of one grant per organization per program year
- Must provide a plan to target Silicon Valley Power residential or small business customers
- Proposal must include metrics for measuring success of the outreach effort
- Must submit an application and budget; all expenses must be pre-approved within the budget
- Final receipts must be submitted
- Installment payments will be made based on milestones established in the grant application
- Funding can cover materials, supplies, necessary equipment (excluding equipment that will be used for other purposes, such as computers), transportation, technology, staff time or other SVP approved costs.
- Participants grant Silicon Valley Power the right to use any content created under this grant funding. Model releases must be provided for any photo or video content.
- Projects must be new and not previously funded.
- Any artwork or music used in the project or outreach campaign must be original and free from copyright infringement.
- One grant per organization per 12 month period. If prior work performed under a grant is not yet complete, a new grant may not be provided until completion of the prior grant-funded project.
For more information, visit Community Outreach Grants.
