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
- 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:
- Schools and student groups
- Service clubs
- Youth organizations
- Homeowners associations
- Community and neighborhood groups
- Property Business Improvement Districts
- Non-profit groups
- Informal groups with innovative ideas
Individuals and for-profit groups are not eligible.
For more information, visit City of Sacramento.
