City of Sacramento Community Action Grants (California)

The City of Sacramento is accepting applications for its Community Action Grants to help prevent urban runoff pollution and protect water quality.

Donor Name: City of Sacramento

State: California

City: Sacramento

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline: 02/26/2024

Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000

Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned

Details:

The City’s Department of Utilities each year offers grants to community groups to help fund projects that protect, restore or enhance rivers, creeks and nearby areas in the city.

Project Ideas

Applicants are encouraged to use their imagination to generate new ideas, be innovative and have fun.

Education projects
- Create materials or activities that educate people on how to help prevent pollution
- Write a stream or watershed guidebook and conduct tours or field trips
- Create displays or signs related to water quality
School projects
- Go on a field trip to learn about Sacramento’s watershed, creeks, or the rivers
- Create a classroom activity that involves watersheds, creeks, or the rivers
- Purchase a watershed model for the classroom
- Adopt a creek, river, or watershed near your school
Outreach projects
- Coordinate clean-up days on local creeks or rivers
- Hold a creek, river, or watershed workshop for community members
Restoration projects
- Organize events to remove non-native plants and plant new ones near creeks or rivers
- Construct and re-vegetate stream-side interpretive trails
Monitoring projects
- Conduct a monitoring program on a local creek, river, or watershed
- Evaluate the condition of the native plants and habitat of a creek, river, or watershed
Neighborhood projects
- Start neighborhood cleanup events
- Improve a vacant lot
- Develop a community garden that uses integrated pest management
- Install and maintain trash and cigarette receptacles

Eligible uses of grant funding includes

Purchase of materials and supplies
Equipment rental
Promotion of a volunteer event
Volunteer recruitment
Meals for volunteers
Purchase of native vegetation

Funding Information

A maximum of $15,000 is available to fund Community Action Grant projects; up to $3,000 per project.

Eligibility Criteria

Projects must benefit, protect, or enhance local creeks, rivers, or watershed, be within city of Sacramento boundaries and/or directly affect the residents of the city of Sacramento, and be completed by Dec. 1, 2024.

The following types of groups can apply: