CADeadline: Ongoing
Baldwin Hills & Urban Watersheds Conservancy
The Baldwin Hills & Urban Watersheds Conservancy Proposition 4: Community and Climate Resilience Grant Program aim to award projects and programs that protect biodiversity; restore watershed function; and expand equitable access to parks and open space.
The Climate Bond, Proposition 4: the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024 (Senate Bill (SB) 867), was approved by voters in November 2024. It added Division 50 (Commencing with Section 80000) to the Public Resources Code (PRC). Section 93020 (a)(1) of Chapter 6: Protect Biodiversity and Accelerating Nature-Based Climate Solutions authorizes the Legislature to appropriate $48,000,000 (forty-eight million dollars) to the Baldwin Hills & Urban Watersheds Conservancy (Conservancy) for projects and programs that reduce the risks of climate change impacts upon communities, fish and wildlife, and natural resources, and increase public access. Grant funds shall be awarded to projects and programs that: Produce direct, measurable, and non-speculative benefits; Improve climate resilience for Disadvantaged Communities (DACs), Severely Disadvantaged Communities (SDACs), Tribes, or vulnerable populations; Avoid creating burdens or harms to any vulnerable community; Demonstrate community engagement, co-design, or community-identified need; and/or Provide benefits reasonably proportional to the project’s scale and cost. The Conservancy shall ensure that Proposition 4 investments provide meaningful and direct benefits to Vulnerable Populations, DACs, SDACs, and Native American Tribes. These requirements implement the California Natural Resources Agency’s Meaningful and Direct Benefits Assessment Framework and ensure that climate-resilience investments advance equity, reduce climate burdens, and strengthen community capacity to adapt to climate impacts. The Conservancy will utilize the BH UWC Community and Climate Resilience Framework to evaluate proposal applications for their ability to advance one or more of the Conservancy’s eight Community and Climate Resilience Goals: Empower Safe and Resilient Communities Increase Access to Parks and Open Spaces Protect and Manage Water Resources Increase Biodiversity Advance Urban Forest Health Remediate Degraded Lands Mitigate Impacts from Extreme Heat Prevent Wildfire These goals ensure that Proposition 4 investments advance the Conservancy’s statutory mission and deliver direct, measurable, and equitable benefits to communities experiencing persistent underinvestment. Applications will be submitted in two phases: a Concept Proposal and a Full Application. It is strongly recommended that prospective applicants contact BH UWC staff and attend a grant workshop for a consultation prior to submitting a Concept Proposal.
Amount not specifiedOfficial notice ↗ CADeadline: Ongoing
San Diego River Conservancy
Protect communities, improve forest health, enhance early detection and response and support long-term capital infrastructure projects.
Hazardous fuels reduction, wildfire prevention planning and wildfire prevention education.
Amount not specifiedOfficial notice ↗ CADeadline: Ongoing
San Diego River Conservancy
The purposes of Prop 4 include watershed improvement, wildfire resilience, chaparral and forest restoration, and workforce development that addresses needs related to this subdivision and to reduce the risks of climate change impacts upon communities, fish and wildlife, and natural resources, and increase public access.
Multi-benefit projects that advance a number of goals, including but not limited to: • Conserving land • Protecting resources • Reducing flood and fire risk • Improving water quality • Protecting and enhancing wildlife habitats and corridors • Completing the San Diego River Trail • Providing public access for the enjoyment of the San Diego River Park and open space, trails, campgrounds and park facilities • Removing invasive plant species from the watershed • Increasing native habitat and promoting the re-establishment of native species • Promoting cultural and tribal preservation, and historical interpretation of the San Diego River and its people
Amount not specifiedOfficial notice ↗ CADeadline: Ongoing
Department of Water Resources
The Real-time Data Grant Program was created to help fund projects to fill a gap in our current flood warning system. This grant program will fund additional real-time telemetry of reservoir elevations at dams with ungated spillways. This will provide important information to forecasters, flood emergency responders, and communities downstream of these dams with ungated spillways during periods of heavy precipitation.
The need to improve public safety and achieve other benefits through integrated flood management is urgent due to more people living and working in flood-prone areas, better understanding of system deficiencies, and possible changes in flood magnitude and frequency from a changing climate. In 2018, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) launched the Flood Partnership, in collaboration with the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The Flood Partnership is intended to reduce the risk and consequences of flooding in California by strengthening the collaboration, data sharing, and funding resources that are already in place; and by identifying and addressing unmet needs. As part of the Flood Partnership, California began the long process of improving the coordination and alignment of federal, State, and local agencies in planning for and responding to flood emergencies, on a watershed-by-watershed basis. To encourage this increased level of coordination and alignment, DWR has set up funding programs to support this effort. DWR is also planning on assisting other agencies in identifying other non-DWR sponsored grant and funding assistance programs and assisting in obtaining funding assistance from those programs. Program Directed Activities DWR will use program funds for Direct Expenditures or Directed Action activities that fulfill the intent of the funding source used. Direct expenditure projects are proposed by DWR either on its own initiative or in response to a solicitation from a California public agency. DWR will apply these guidelines as it deems applicable and appropriate. Direct expenditure projects must address an interest of the State and may be proposed and approved at any time. Grant Eligibility California public agencies that own or have primary responsibility for a dam under the jurisdiction of the Division of Safety of Dams are eligible to apply. Public agencies include counties, cities, water districts, flood control districts, irrigation districts, municipal utility districts, service districts, Joint Power Authorities, or other local government entities in California. The geographic scope of this grant is statewide. Eligible Grant Activities and Tasks This is a direct Grant Program designed to achieve the objective and goals of the Flood Safety Partnership. The typical activities funded under the first round of this Grant Program include: • Purchase and installation of equipment needed for collecting, storing, transmitting, and sharing of real-time reservoir elevation data with the California Data Exchange Center (CDEC). Specifications and standards for real-time data collection will be included in the final Grant Guideline.• Purchase and installation of equipment needed for collecting, storing, transmitting, and sharing of real-time hydro-meteorological data with CDEC.
Amount not specifiedOfficial notice ↗