California Strategic Growth Council

The Mission Heritage Plaza project is using $16.8 million to help local partners build 71 new energy-efficient, affordable homes in downtown Riverside. The project will also plant over 200 new trees, provide two miles of new bike lanes, and create a multi-modal transit hub that links local and regional transit systems in one convenient location.

California Wildlife Conservation Board

The Contra Costa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District (CCFCWCD) received a grant of $1,250,000 to restore 400 acres of coastal wetlands and adjacent habitat at the mouth of Walnut Creek and its tributary, Pacheco Creek.

California Strategic Growth Council

The Transform Fresno initiative, with $66.5 million in Transformative Climate Communities (TCC) investments, allowed a broad group of stakeholders to collaborate on an integrated suite of projects meant to reduce disparities in these neighborhoods.

California Department of Food and Agriculture

In a partnership with the Strategic Growth Council and the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) is providing outreach, education, and technical assistance to farmers and ranchers across California

California Strategic Growth Council

The Toxic Tides research project, led by the University of California (UC), Berkeley Sustainability and Healthy Equity Laboratory is working to better understand how vulnerable communities living near hazardous sites may be affected under different sea levels rise scenarios.

California Strategic Growth Council

The Brazelton family, in partnership with the Solano Land Trust, will ensure the Brazelton ranch in Vacaville remains intact in perpetuity by placing their property under a conservation easement. Conservation of farmlands that surround urban areas helps promote infill development, avoid GHG emissions, and maintain a viable agricultural economy in the region.

California State Transportation Agency

Sonoma and Marin Counties received an $11 million grant to help pay for four newly manufactured rail passenger vehicles to complete the SMART Rail Car Capacity Project. Together with a newly launched 43-mile SMART passenger rail service across Marin and Sonoma Counties, these rail cars will connect communities, provide a transit link between job markets and worker populations and provide people with a sustainable transportation option.

California State Coastal Conservancy

The Pauma Band of Luiseño Indians are scaling up their carbon farming operations on Pauma Tribal Farms. This project includes funding for on-farm practices such as cropping, compost application, hedgerow installation, no-till, and a transition from row crops to trees for 35 acres of farmland.

California Natural Resources Agency

The Grapefruit Boulevard Urban Greening and Connectivity Project is helping to revitalize the Pueblo Viejo Downtown District in the City of Coachella.

California Natural Resources Agency

By working with both recipients of regional block grants and entities in priority regions outside areas covered by those regional block grants, the Watershed Center strengthens forestry and fire protection work at the local, regional, and state levels.

California High-Speed Rail Authority

The High Speed Rail Authority continues to use the cleanest equipment available to reduce its emissions, plant trees near the rail line to sequester carbon, and create jobs to provide opportunities and job skills to disadvantaged workers.

California Energy Commission

In 2019, Sun-Maid was awarded and matched an $806,000 grant to implement an optimized compressed air energy system at its dried fruit packing and processing facility in the city of Kingsburg.

California Department of Transportation

The City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) is providing free, safe, and reliable transportation to students across Los Angeles. The “DASH to Class” program allows all K-12, college, and vocational students with a Student Reduced Fare pass to ride free on LADOT Transit’s DASH buses—even for non-school related trips.

California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery

Shark Solutions utilizes patented Shark Glass Separation technology, which processes flat laminated glass such as windshields, building glass, and safety glass.

California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery

Rialto Bioenergy Facility, LLC (Rialto) received a $4 million grant to fund the installation of an anaerobic digester and a freezer to salvage food that would otherwise go to the landfill. These will both be important to the operational success of Rialto’s new Southern California facility, which is expected to recycle 300,000 tons of organic waste from the region annually.

California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery

Replate, Inc., a nonprofit food rescue organization that matches surplus food from businesses with communities in need, has received two grants from CalRecycle totaling $800,000 to recover edible food that would have otherwise been sent to a landfill.

California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection

Urban Wood Rescue, a program administered by the Sacramento Tree Foundation, is transforming dead trees from around the Sacramento region into useful lumber.

California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection

The “Teakettle Experiment” continues important work that began over 20 years ago to quantify the effects of prescribed fire and thinning on the ecosystem in the Teakettle Experimental Forest in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains. This long-term research project is examining six different treatment options, including different intensities of thinning and prescribed fire.