The Clean Power Alliance provides Community Benefits Grants to organizations working to advance clean energy, green jobs, environmental education and stewardship, and energy equity and diversity in the communities that CPA serves.
Donor Name: Clean Power Alliance
State: California
County: Los Angeles County (CA), Ventura County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/13/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Priority Focus Areas
The CBG is available to projects and organizations focused on advancing clean energy, sustainability, and resiliency through the following pathways:
- Research
- Environmental and Social Justice Communities
- Workforce Development
- Education
- The CPUC identified environmental and social justice communities as those where residents are:
- Predominantly communities of color or low-income
- Underrepresented in the policy setting or decision-making process
- Subject to a disproportionate impact from one or more environmental hazards and
- Likely to experience disparate implementation of environmental regulations and socioeconomic investments in their communities
- On the ground, targeted communities typically include but are not limited to:
- Disadvantaged Communities, located in the most environmentally burdened California census tracts, as determined by the 25 percent highest scores (75th percentile) when using the CalEnviroScreen tool
- All Tribal lands
- Low-income households (household incomes below 80 percent of the area median income) and
- Low-income census tracts (census tracts where aggregated household incomes are less than 80 percent of area or state median income).
- The CPUC identified environmental and social justice communities as those where residents are:
Funding Information
Awards will range from $15,000 to $30,000.
Grant Period
One-Year grant.
Geographic Areas
The CPA service territory:
- Agoura Hills
- Hermosa Beach
- Sierra Madre
- Alhambra
- Malibu
- Simi Valley
- Arcadia
- Manhattan Beach
- South Pasadena
- Beverly Hills
- Moorpark
- Temple City
- Calabasas
- Monrovia
- Thousand Oaks
- Camarillo
- Ojai
- Unincorporated Los Angeles County
- Claremont
- Oxnard
- Unincorporated Ventura County
- Carson
- Paramount
- Ventura
- Culver City
- Redondo Beach
- West Hollywood
- Downey
- Rolling Hills Estates
- Westlake Village
- Hawaiian Gardens
- Santa Paula
- Whittier
- Hawthorne
- Santa Monica
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants must be an IRS-designated 501(c)(3) non-profit organization serving the areas where CPA provides electricity.
- Previous Community Benefits Grant recipients are eligible to apply for the 2024-2025 grant cycle. However, previous grant recipients are ineligible to receive funds more than two years in a row.
For more information, visit CPA.
