Open to Government, Educational, Nonprofit
Organizations; Deadline to Apply is June
7
OAKLAND,
Calif., April 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The
PG&E Corporation Foundation (PG&E Foundation) and Pacific
Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) are now accepting applications
for their Better Together Nature Positive Innovation and Resilience
Hubs grant programs totaling $900,000
this year for projects and initiatives dedicated to environmental
stewardship and climate resilience.
Better Together Nature Positive Innovation Grant
For 2024, the PG&E Foundation's Better Together Nature
Positive Innovation Grant program will award up to $500,000 total — in five $100,000 regional grants — to fund projects
focused on land stewardship, air quality, and water stewardship.
One grant will be awarded for each of PG&E's five regions:
North Valley and Sierra, North Coast, Bay Area, South Bay and
Central Coast, and Central Valley.
The Nature Positive Innovation Grant program, now in its third
year, is part of a commitment to fund projects supporting
environmental stewardship in communities PG&E serves across
Northern and Central California.
The program helps communities mobilize around and invest in
solutions that address challenges facing the natural environment.
The program is designed to support innovative and replicable
resilient solutions that can be shared widely to build more
sustainable habitats and communities.
Resilience Hubs Grant
In addition, the PG&E Resilience Hubs Grant program, now in
its fourth year, is designed to help communities create a physical
space or set of resources that supports community resilience — such
as access to power, shelter, and information — to climate-driven
disruptions, including wildfires and Public Safety Power Shutoff
(PSPS) events. Once developed, these "resilience hubs" can also be
accessed year-round as a community resource. [See a video of a
climate-resilience project in Richmond.]
For 2024, the PG&E Resilience Hubs Grant program will award
$400,000 total at both the
$25,000 and $100,000 level. These grants will be funded by
PG&E Corporation shareholders as part of PG&E's investments
in statewide wildfire resiliency and response, in accordance with a
mandate from the California Public Utilities Commission.
"Climate change is affecting our environment and communities
today, and the impacts are accelerating," said Carla Peterman, Executive Vice President,
Corporate Affairs and Chief Sustainability Officer for PG&E
Corporation and Chair of the Board of The PG&E Corporation
Foundation. "Our Nature Positive Innovation and Resilience Hubs
grant programs are dedicated to helping the hometowns and customers
we serve meet these challenges. Together, we can be stewards of our
environment by developing forward-thinking, sustainable and
equitable strategies benefitting our communities and setting
examples that others throughout our state can
follow."
Priority for both grant programs will be given to projects that
address the needs of disadvantaged and/or vulnerable communities.
Strategies and solutions resulting from the grants will be made
publicly available to help all communities and encourage local and
regional partnerships.
Better Together Nature Positive Innovation proposals
may cover any stage of an environmental stewardship project,
including but not limited to planning, construction, design,
education, and coordination.
Resilience Hub proposals may include conducting a
feasibility analysis to assess resilience hub needs through local
engagement, planning and design of physical spaces, mobile
resources that will provide community resilience, or retrofits of
existing buildings or structures to support community
resilience.
To be eligible, applicants to either program must be a
governmental organization (including tribal governments),
educational institution, or 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. The
deadline to apply for both grant programs is June 7,
2024.
About PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Company,
a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation
(NYSE:PCG), is a combined natural gas and
electric utility serving more than 16 million people across 70,000
square miles in Northern and Central
California. For more information, visit pge.com
and pge.com/news.
About The PG&E Corporation Foundation
The
PG&E Corporation Foundation is an independent
501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, separate from
PG&E and sponsored by PG&E
Corporation.
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