We can make our communities shine

American River Parkway Foundation

Awarded: $15,345

 

Project Summary: A STEM Education collaboration for Title I schools. Classes of students will visit the River Bend Outdoor classroom with the American River Parkway Foundation and collaborative partners with STEM curriculum. The two collaborative partners include Sacramento Splash and Soil Born Farms, reaching 261 elementary school students and 546 middle school students.

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Asian Resources, Inc.

Awarded: $25,000

 

Project Summary: The Zero Carbon Future Workforce project will use the Train The Trainer model with 25 youth leaders from under resourced areas to deliver workshops to 100 under represented youth and young adults about zero carbon careers and opportunities.

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Associated General Contractors (AGC) Construction Education Foundation (CEF)

Awarded: $25,000

 

Project Summary: This project will provide career exploration for 3000 under-represented youth ages 12-24 in STEM, construction and utilities fields in five high schools. Career exploration partner is Agriculture, Construction, Engineering (ACE) Mentoring with currently active industry professionals engaging high school students weekly with hands on project builds. Representation of young professional women in these fields are represented in the industry professionals mentoring the high school students.

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Carmichael Improvement District

Awarded: $16,050

 

Project Summary: This project will provide energy efficiency upgrades with LED indoor and outdoor lighting with six local businesses as a strategy for inclusive economic development in the Carmichael Business District.

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Center for Land-Based Learning

Awarded: $25,706

 

Project Summary: This project will provide an environmental stewardship curriculum to 100 under-represented high school youth from Florin High, George Washington Carver, Sheldon, Grant Union and Mira Loma Highs Schools. Curriculum includes education of environmental stewardship of native habitat and hands on learning with planting of hedgerows, trees and restoration of pollinator habitat.

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City of Trees Foundation

Awarded: $10,000

 

Project Summary: This project will increase native habitat restoration efforts and also plant 133 seedlings on Del Paso Boulevard and North Sacramento with education curriculum for income eligible residential customers to impact heat island index.

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CLEANSTART, Inc.

Awarded: $11,672

 

Project Summary: This project will provide education workshops for 200 under-resourced community members and 20 businesses. Additional outreach and resources to income eligible customers among the 3000 residents in the nearby communities to understand and develop clean energy and energy efficient practices. 

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Folsom Historic Society

Awarded: $8,041

 

Project Summary: This project is for the Clean Blacksmithing Program. This program will training 50 individuals on electric induction forges as part of Blacksmithing Program.

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Franklin Boulevard Business Association

Awarded: $10,000

 

Project Summary: This project will provide energy efficient lighting upgrades for five small businesses in an under-resourced business corridor. This strategy is part of their outreach, engagement and inclusive economic development partnership for the Franklin Boulevard Small Businesses.

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Freedom Through Education

Awarded: $10,000

 

Project Summary: This project will provide employment skills development and support for work placement for 75 previously incarcerated adults transitioning back to community.

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Fulton El Camino Recreation & Park                             

Awarded: $35,000

 

Project Summary: This project will create an outdoor classroom to educate community members about energy efficiency and conservation, as well as increase the capacity for more community events that offer support and services for refugees and immigrant families needing assistance at Howe Park. This project includes activation of solar-powered picnic tables with battery storage and building a shade structure with LED lighting to decrease heat island index impact.

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Futures Explored

Awarded: $29,547

 

Project Summary: This project will provide LED lighting upgrades/STEM education and workforce skills building for 40 under-resourced youth with special needs. The youth will document the building upgrades and develop a short documentary highlighting the energy efficiency upgrades as part of their skills development through their workforce development curriculum.

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Health Education Council   

Awarded: $23,082

 

Project Summary:  This project will upgrade to electric HVAC and induction stoves, water heater, induction stove and energy efficiency with upgraded LED lighting for community space located in Meadowview that provide services for under-resourced community members from South Sacramento and Meadowview areas.

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HumanBulb

Awarded: $32,719     

 

Project Summary: This project will provide STEM education and project experiences through a sustainability focused curriculum introducing students to STEM activity kits about renewable power sources. This project will impact 250 under-resourced youth (13-18 years old)

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Interns2Pros                        

Awarded: $7,500         

 

Project Summary: This Zero Carbon Workforce Development/STEM career exploration project is designed for 500 high school students and 500 adults/parents. There will be additional outreach and community education provided for clean energy and energy efficient practices to implement.

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Iranian American Culture & Educational Center

Awarded: $10,000

 

Project Summary: This project will promote clean energy practices with Farsi-Speaking communities. The group will outreach to 200 under-represented Farsi speaking homes and businesses with bilingual and culturally responsive strategies.

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Kiwanis Club of Rancho Cordova Foundation

Awarded: $5,000

 

Project Summary: This project will provide STEM themed books for children/youth in under-resourced communities. The project will increase access to STEM curriculum with 600 STEM related books for youth in Rancho Cordova. The project will conduct 4 STEM Career Pathway workshops for at least 25 children/youth per workshop (100 youth total).

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Lion's Roar Dharma Center

Awarded: $5,000        

 

Project Summary: The Center is installing a shade structure to increase capacity to host community events and education classes outdoors, engaging over 300 community members that actively utilize the facility. Information, education and resources on clean energy and energy efficiency practices will be shared with community members onsite.

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National Academic Youth Council (d.b.a. Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum)     

Awarded: $13,049

 

Project Summary: This project will provide outreach and education to 40 youth, ages 12-18, in South Sacramento under-resourced community.  The curriculum will enrich student knowledge of clean energy topics and STEM career fields. The partner will host a variety of community events to share Clean Energy and Zero Carbon career opportunities with 250 - 400 community members.

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NeighborWorks Sacramento

Awarded: $8,530

 

Project Summary: This project will identify and support 10 homes and families in Fruitridge Manor for neighborhood revitalization project. Connection to SMUD energy specialist and potential energy efficiency upgrades will be provided.

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ReImagine Mack Road Partnership

Awarded: $20,000     

 

Project Summary:  This project will provide employment readiness/skill building and career path exploration related to the clean energy trades industry (includes electricians, EV technicians, construction) for 14 high school youth (ages 14-18) from South Sacramento neighborhoods: Florin, Valley-Hi and Meadowview. This project will expand employment readiness to include clean energy fields, STEM, trades (electricians, automotive mechanics/repairs/techs), information technology (coding, computer tech/security).

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Sacramento Children's Museum    

Awarded: $7,705

 

Project Summary:  This project will provide a Mobile Museum STEM Program for under-resourced schools, for approximately 500 early elementary-aged (K-3rd grade) students. Facilitators will highlight alternative, renewable energy options and energy efficiency, and conservation education.

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Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services

Awarded: $9,221        

 

Project Summary: This project will provide upgraded LED lighting for the parking lot and driveways for services that support 12,000 people annually.  The improved and energy efficient lighting will increase the safety for staff and volunteers packing and loading delivery trucks to 130 partner agency food banks regionally.

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Shop Class, Inc.

Awarded: $40,112     

 

Project Summary: This project will provide skills training in construction building trades and STEM education. The trades education includes hands-on projects using the lending library of power tools and community classes on how to use power tools to support community and residential construction projects in Oak Park.

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Soil Born Farms

Awarded: $42,574

 

Project Summary: This project will add an electric tractor and electric utility cart on the farm.  By adding new electric farm equipment for clean energy usage, the farm continues to develop a clean and equitable urban food system which will provide the lettuce grown on the farm to the Sacramento City Unified School District’s Central Kitchen for student meals.

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Square Root Academy

Awarded: $22,250

 

Project Summary: A STEM and clean energy education project that will inspire behavioral changes for 15 high school youth leaders to drive change through 12-week curriculum with culminating project presented in community listening session.

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Sunshine Food Pantry & Resource Center

Awarded: $54,161

 

Project Summary: This project will replace and upgrade old equipment to an electric HVAC, heat pump, commercial refrigeration and infrastructure for double doors. The Resource center will provide additional customer outreach and engagement for income eligible customers in under-resourced area of Galt. Serving 2000 people per month. 

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The Salvation Army

Awarded: $40,000

 

Project Summary: The STEM Education Lab will provide an updated education Lab classroom for 50 Pre-K students and 40 Kindergarten to 8th grade students. The afterschool program and curriculum will introduce hands-on, age-appropriate robotics, engineering kits, science and computer technology activities at the Oak Park site.

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Voices of Youth

Awarded: $21,000

 

Project Summary: The project will provide clean energy/STEM education outreach and engagement to income eligible community members, as well as job readiness workshops to 120 elementary, middle and high school youth at Fruitridge Community Collaborative.

80 Watt District PBID
Awarded: $ 25,000

 

Project Description: Aligns with inclusive economic development strategy to increase public safety and energy efficiency practices for local business corridor along Watt Ave.

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916 Ink

Awarded: $10,000

 

Project Description:

Provides a new garden shade structure for students and community members to decrease the “heat island” impact. Also provides education workshops with climate change and STEM curriculum.

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Architects of Hope

Awarded: $25,000

 

Project Description:

Educates and trains youth leaders on computer technology programs and build skills to identify and repair computers as part of their Youth Leadership Cohort curriculum.

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Atrium 916

Awarded: $31,000

 

Project Description:

Provides an all-electric trailer for mobile “art upcycling” workshops in under-resourced communities; participants learn how to upcycle materials for re-use as well as promoting entrepreneurship.

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Center for Land Based Learning

Awarded: $30,000

 

Project Description:

Focuses on climate change through habitat restoration projects by providing a youth workforce skill and job readiness development program.

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Center of Praise

Awarded: $15,000

 

Project Description:

Provides energy efficiency upgrades to interior lighting for the Midtown Legacy Center.

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Downtown Sacramento Partnerships

Awarded: $29,350

 

Project Description:

Supports Cesar Chavez Park revitalization efforts. This includes increasing economic development in the business corridor by adding outdoor family friendly areas, an imagination playground, chairs, tables and lawn games. Increases availability of SMUD resources and information.

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Fitrah

Awarded: $25,000

 

Project Description:

Supports workforce development skills and stipends for diverse population of foster youth. Will add computer equipment for warehouse retail training space.

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Folsom Economic Development Corporation

Awarded: $12,500

 

Project Description:

Provides economic development and entrepreneur training, support and technical assistance for under-resourced community members interested in starting businesses.

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HomeAid

Awarded: $10,000

 

Project Description:

Provides energy efficiency through installation of all-electric laundry equipment and community room for Volunteers of America Veterans and families.

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Lutheran Social Services

Awarded: $25,000

 

Project Description:

Provides workforce development skills for foster youth.

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Meristem, Inc.

Awarded: $35,263

 

Project Description:

Provides energy efficiency by upgrading interior lighting for residential school campus supporting students with disabilities.

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Midtown Association

Awarded: $20,000

 

Project Description:

Supports the Alhambra Blvd Revitalization Project with landscaping and placemaking. Development of micro mobility hub by adding accessible bike racks, increasing cross walk safety and economic development through business corridor.

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National Academic Youth Corps (Sojourner Truth African American Heritage Museum)

Awarded: $18,000

 

Project Description:

Provides workforce development and job readiness skills and entrepreneur development opportunities to youth entrepreneurs in the South Sacramento area.

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Northern California Valley Sheet Metal Foundation

Awarded: $50,000

 

Project Description:

Provides new electric equipment for training new apprentices, and upgraded training for existing journey people on electric HVAC systems.

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Oracles of Truth Academy

Awarded: $25,000

 

Project Description:

Provides youth education focused on clean energy and sustainability practices in home and at school sites in South Sacramento.

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Project Optimism

Awarded: $30,000

 

Project Description:

Provides under-resourced youth access to STEAM skill competencies and curriculum. Includes monthly meetings with parents with tools to improve zero carbon outcomes in under-resources communities.

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Rosemont Community Foundation

Awarded: $10,000

 

Project Description:

Supports neighborhood revitalization through economic, education and community revitalization with STEM programming and increasing inclusive economic development for businesses in under invested corridors.

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Sierra Service Project

Awarded: $10,000

 

Project Description:

Provides youth workforce development opportunities to learn and practice their skills in construction trades.

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Square Root Academy

Awarded: $15,000

 

Project Description:

Provides access to STEM education and career exploration for under-resourced community. Increases exposure to STEM career and college opportunities and job readiness in STEM.

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Sunrise Marketplace

Awarded: $20,000

 

Project Description:

Provides upgraded indoor LED lighting for Sunrise Marketplace.

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YMCA of Superior California

Awarded: $42,550

 

Project Description:

Provides upgrade to LED lighting for outdoor play space to increase access and safety.

350 Sacramento
Awarded: $10,000

Project Description:
Leadership development program that engages with youth in under-resourced communities. Will develop four new environmental student groups at high schools and connect youth throughout the region.

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80-Watt District
Awarded: $25,000

Project Description:
Crime prevention through environmental design assessment and recommendations for improved security lighting with energy-efficient lighting options and interior lighting upgrades with business partners on Watt Ave. in North Highlands.

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Alianza (La Familia Counseling Center)
Awarded: $10,000

Project Description:
Creating powerful Latina trailblazer murals and education components, that celebrate the actions and impact on social justice issues by local Latinx women trailblazers. Their stories will be shared with students through a moveable art piece that will be presented to K-12 schools starting in the South Sacramento region. 

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Architects of Hope 
Awarded: $21,270

Project Description:
The Architects of Hope Fellowship Program provides youth development, leadership, mentoring, civic engagement for underserved youth with 3 projects-based deliverables in design, build and architecture.

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Atrium
Awarded: $35,000

Project Description:
Technical assistance and training for small business entrepreneurs in marketing their business on television and social media. Focus on women owned, sustainable practice businesses.

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Capital College and Career Academy
Awarded: $25,000

Project Description:
Provides infrastructure for workforce skills development and training in STEM, construction and trades careers for youth in the North Sacramento/Del Paso Heights area.

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Carmichael Park Foundation
Awarded: $21,200

Project Description:
Providing community center improvements, including the installation of a new electric HVAC and upgraded windows, for veterans resources and local childcare program.

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Central United Methodist Church
Awarded: $15,000

Project Description:
An electric bread oven will be purchased and used to establish a learning kitchen, supplying fresh bread distribution in partnership with the South Sacramento Interfaith Food Closet in South Sacramento.

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FITRAH
Awarded: $5,000

Project Description:
A workforce skills development and training program that provides equipment to develop operations and infrastructure that will increase capacity to train and empower the most vulnerable foster youth. 

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Folsom Economic Development Corporation
Awarded: $25,000

Project Description:
Creates online platforms for workshops and training to engage neighborhood and community organizations to enhance small business creations, growth and collaborations.

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Franklin Neighborhood Development Corporation 
Awarded: $15,000

Project Description:
Franklin District Lighting Project with business and community partners.

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Freedom Through Education
Awarded: $10,000

Project Description:
Supporting community development for formerly incarcerated adults in transitional living homes. Also providing restorative justice model of community engagement and neighborhood beautification for disabled and senior community neighbors.

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Galt Chamber of Commerce
Awarded: $20,000

Project Description:
Provides community art installations with free, inclusive education, connectivity and community involvement to revitalize the downtown corridor in Galt. Art installations will include STEM education, renewable energy options and promote zero carbon strategies.

International Rescue Committee
Awarded: $10,000

Project Description:
Improving infrastructure of Creekside Garden to increase accessibility for immigrant/refugee families to grow food for their families.

Junior Achievement of Sacramento 
Awarded: $5,000

Project Description:
JA Inspire is a virtual expo that provides an in-depth career development and exploration experience for students, including high-tech digital workbooks, pre-event preparation lessons, engaging videos, STEM education, webinars and communication with mentors. 

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Los Rios Community College Foundation
Awarded: $25,000

Project Description:
Promotes education and equity in workforce development by providing support for students in STEM and energy career pathways at Los Rios Community College campuses. Includes funding and access to safety equipment for internships and basic equipment needs for post-education employment.

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Natomas Garden and Arts Club
Awarded: $23,000

Project Description:
Creates a half-acre of pollinator habitat along the Ninos Parkway to mitigate adverse environmental impacts, including ADA-compliant nature loops and pathways with interpretive signage in English and Spanish.

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Pacific Rim Foundation
Awarded: $5,000

Project Description:
Upgrade indoor lighting and weatherization for Filipino community gathering space in South Sacramento.

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Paratransit
Awarded: $13,200

Project Description:
Connecting youth and parents to their community by increasing independent travel options through the use of public transportation, Smart Ride Micro Transit and electric bikes, with a focus in the South Sacramento area.

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R Street Sacramento Partnership
Awarded: $5,000

Project Description:
Utilizes innovative technology to help ease our cleaning and safety issues on R and S Streets with a solar powered cordless trash and recycle compaction system.

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Rebuilding Together Sacramento
Awarded: $24,000

Project Description:
Supporting home repairs in North Sacramento and Rancho Cordova areas for under resourced Senior homeowners.

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ReIMAGINE Mack Road Foundation
Awarded: $22,000

Project Description:
Youth workforce development and readiness program that increases academic success, improves social emotional wellbeing and socioeconomics, and increases access to high quality, culturally relevant, youth-focused expanded learning opportunities.

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Roberts Family Development Center
Awarded: $10,000

Project Description:
Technology hub and security locker for laptops and electronic equipment for their teen center.

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Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates
Awarded: $14,000

Project Description:
A bike mechanics internship program for youth and community members that helps decrease carbon emissions by enabling more people to choose a bike for everyday use.

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Sacramento Asian Sports Foundation
Awarded: $54,000

Project Description:
Increases energy efficiency by providing electric HVAC upgrade and indoor lighting of community center for youth, adults and senior services including youth mental wellness program, health and exercise access and education, creative arts and support for cultural entrepreneurial programs.

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Sacramento Food Bank (Rio Linda Site)
Awarded: $10,158

Project Description: 
Pelican wireless system to support food bank site located and serving the Rio Linda community.

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Sacramento Metro Chamber Foundation 
Awarded: $10,000

Project Description:
A free, fun, experiential learning program, with expansion into Promise Zone area schools, that teaches youth how to start, own and operate their own business using a lemonade stand. Lessons include creating budgets, setting profit-making goals, serving customers, repaying investors and giving back to the community.

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Sacramento Valley Conservancy
Awarded: $20,000

Project Description: 
Funding the Lower American River Native Nursery and Demonstration Project in collaboration with the Center for Land Based Learning and Sierra Nevada Journey.

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Sierra Service Project 
Awarded: $30,000

Project Description: 
Provides home repairs for under-resourced communities and immigrant/refugee workforce training.

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Single Mom Strong
Awarded: $10,000

Project Description:
Funding the expansion of the childcare center and developing work appropriate clothing resources in support of women re-entering workforce.

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Sisters Inspiring Sisters
Awarded: $10,000

Project Description:
Promotes women businesses in North Highlands through an entrepreneurial technical assistance and support group.

Stockton Boulevard Partnership
Awarded: $15,000

Project Description:
Engaging business owners and community, using crime prevention through environmental training, to support façade and parking lot lighting upgrades for safety for 5 blocks of Stockton Boulevard.

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Voices of Youth
Awarded: $20,000

Project Description:
Summer Nights of Impact: Community and youth development, workforce/job skills training and job placement. Includes career fairs for youth and adults in underserved community around the Fruitridge Community Collaborative.

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World Relief Sacramento
Awarded: $25,000

Project Description:
Providing workforce development skills, access to digital literacy and emergency needs for the Afghan refugee community.

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AGC of California Construction Education Foundation
Award: $40,000

Project Description:
Career exploration and Workforce Development with high school population in underserved communities. Creating variety of outreach strategies to increase Girls in Construction through online platforms with video until in person outreach is safe.

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Alchemist Community Development Corporation
Award: $10,000

Project Description:
Friendliest Bus Stop in Town at 3834 MLK Blvd. Adding a bench, shade structure, solar power kiosk cell phone charger/Wi-Fi for public use, free little library, bike rack, bike pump and repair stand.

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Asian Community Center Senior Center
Award: $16,400

Project Description:
ACC will provide 80 refurbished laptops to seniors sheltering in place to participate in technology education and job skills development workshops. Laptop set up will be in home as health interns visits the seniors.

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Breakthrough Sacramento
Award: $25,000

Project Description:
Online academic support in math and science for middle school students in an academic year long as well as summer program for students in Sacramento Unified School District, San Juan Unified School District and Twin Rivers Unified School District.

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Center for Land-Based Learning
Award: $10,000

Project Description:
Student and Landowner Education and Watershed Stewardship in Del Paso Heights at Grant Union High School.

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Christ Temple Apostolic Church
Award: $20,100

Project Description:
Upgrading HVAC units for multi-use gym.

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City Year Sacramento
Award: $35,839

Project Description:
City Year Sacramento will provide academic support during school hours and after school hours to teachers and students through multiple online formats. Social engagements and resources will also be provided to the families.

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Cosumnes Community Services District
Award: $42,000

Project Description:
Elk Grove Nature Park co-located next to Jessie Baker School, California Montessori Project and for public use. This Park with a Purpose will have ADA accessible pathways over wetlands for close interaction with habitat for education curriculum and social inclusion.

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Eta Gamma Omega Chapter Foundation
Award: $51,000

Project Description:
Highlighting Global Opportunities: Historic landmark in Oak Park; facilities and equipment improvements including electrical upgrades, technology infrastructure.

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First Step Communities
Award: $25,000

Project Description:
The Grove Emergency Bridge Housing: Electrical System Upgrade.

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Food Literacy Center
Award: $15,000

Project Description:
STEM curriculum development for outdoor classroom. Nutrition, curriculum translation for multiple languages, kitchen tools and recipe book for 700 families for interactive educational workshops.

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Freedom Through Education
Award: $8,000

Project Description:
Providing technology education and employment skills to 30 justice involved adults through a new computer lab located in South Sacramento.

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Gateway Community Charter Foundation
Award: $24,000

Project Description:
Development and implementation of Firehouse Café at the Firehouse Community Center in the Del Paso Heights area. Workforce development opportunity for 24 students as well as a Community Living Project at the Firehouse Community Center.

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JUMA Ventures
Award: $35,000

Project Description:
Juma Ventures Sacramento Youth Connect 2020: Workforce development in STEM with underrepresented populations and in collaboration with Los Rios Community College District.

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National Academic Youth Corps/dba Sojourner’s Truth African Heritage Museum
Award: $35,500

Project Description:
Four installations of art sharing the history of the African American heritage with interactive technology engagements with small learning sessions facilitated by educators in South Sacramento.

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National Coalition of 100 Black Women of Sacramento
Award: $1,725

Project Description:
Support STEM online mentoring with female students at Natomas Middle School and professional women in STEM fields to promote interest and engagement in STEM careers through Saturday sessions and some academic supports sessions afterschool.

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NeighborWorks HomeOwnership Center Sacramento
Award: $10,000

Project Description:
Del Paso Heights Energy Olympics. Energy kits/track usage in collaboration with Brother to Brother mentoring program.

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Orangevale Food Bank
Awarded: $9,000

Project Description:
Food Bank capacity improvements to meet increased needs: new roof LED parking lot lights, electrical pallet stack jack, shelving and concrete walkway for forklift.

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Ronald McDonald House Charities of Northern California
Award: $22,000

Project Description:
Upgrade family kitchen and flooring in Home-Away-From-Home program.

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Sacramento Native American Health Center
Award: $10,000

Project Summary:
Infrastructure support for new Medical Center in South Sacramento.

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Sacramento Public Library
Award: $10,000

Project Description:
Electric vehicle charging station at Sacramento Public Library’s Southgate Library.

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Shiloh Baptist Church
Award: $39,040

Project Description:
Upgrade kitchen and food pantry: Energy efficient all-electric kitchen equipment, upgrade HVAC unit.

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Soil Born Farms
Award: $17,000

Project Description:
Edible City Initiative: Outdoor classroom space in Rancho Cordova serving diverse community of cultural gardening. Collaboration with FCUSD, SCUSD and CA Native Plant Society.

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Street Soccer USA Union Pacific Park
Award: $25,000

Project Description:
Lighting at Union Pacific futsal site serving Marina Vista, Seavey Circle. Formerly homeless adults and youth. Lighting will allow for evening leagues/hours of play for an additional 720 hours. Annual increase of 2720 hours with lights and additional workforce development for youth coaches during evening hours after school.

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The River District
Award: $30,000

Project Description:
North 16^th and A Street Lighting Project: Improve lighting in pedestrian tunnel, secure water pressure cleaner and art mural.

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Volunteers of America
Award: $20,000

Project Description:
Improving the transitional housing for veterans at Bell Street property. 12-unit apartment complex for veterans and their families. Building a laundry room and upgrading washers and dryers.

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Washington Neighborhood Center
Award: $27,000

Project Description:
HVAC, electrical and security system upgrades for a Neighborhood Center serving in underrepresented, underserved area near Downtown.

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World Relief Sacramento
Award: $1,430

Project Description:
World Relief Sacramento will host gender and culturally specific workshops for computer literacy and workforce development skills for Afghan women and community. Funds will be used to supply internet hotspots and wireless mouse for laptops. COVID shift recently is provide direct support to Afghan families through home visits on behalf of the San Juan Unified School District to assist with digital access for students.

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Youth Development Network
Award: $5,000

Project Description:
Nueva Epocha Latinx Emerging Leaders Development Program. Emerging leaders from Hispanic/Latinx community with mentorship for early career professionals.

American River Parkway Foundation
Award: $15,000

Project Description:
Improvements to the River Bend for STEM classes.

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California Conservation Corps Foundation
Award: $75,000

Project Description:
Construction of a state-of-the-art Energy Efficiency Training Lab.

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Chicks In Crisis
Award: $7,500

Project Description:
Partially pay to purchase and install a new HVAC roof top unit and system and a new tankless, natural gas water heater.

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Christ Temple Apostolic Church
Award: $2,066

Project Description:
Replacing existing parking lot lights by replacing the ballast and lamps with LED elements.

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City Year Sacramento
Award: $35,000

Project Description:
STEM career curriculum.

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Folsom Historic District Association
Award: $30,000

Project Description:
Facility and equipment improvements adding covered shade structure to the outdoor Amphitheater.

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Latino Center of Art and Culture
Award: $36,920

Project Description:
Install outdoor lighting on lighting poles to allow greatly increased programming in our outdoor space.

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Midtown Parks
Award: $20,000

Project Description:
Light installations including tree lighting, downlight projections on the fort walls and ambient lighting along the walking pathways and pond for Sutter’s Fort.

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North State Building Industry Association Foundation
Award: $14,700

Project Description:
Seven, two-hour hands on STEM connected projects in the construction trade.

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PRO Youth and Families
Award: $10,000

Project Description:
Energy efficiency improvements to the Fruit Ridge Community Collaborative that houses 23-Non-Profits.

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Reading Partners Sacramento
Award: $17,960

Project Description:
Mini STEM Library at the Fruit Ridge Community Collaborative location.

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Rebuilding Together Sacramento
Award: $11,950

Project Description:
Home improvements that contribute to the revitalization efforts in a formal partnership between Rebuilding Together Sacramento and Northern California Construction Training Program. 15-additional neighborhoods with residents who have low-income and/or disabilities will be assisted.

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Riverside United Methodist Church
Award: $5,000

Project Description:
Construct a multi-use outdoor community gathering spaces on its premises.

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Rosemont Community Foundation
Award: $10,000

Project Description:
Volunteers will provide enhancements of Rosemont to include landscaping, weed removal, flowers, greenery and repairs to brick and mortar.

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Sacramento LGBT Community Center
Award: $50,000

Project Description:
New Headquarters relocation to 1015 20th Street.

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Sacramento Valley Conservancy
Award: $3,921

Project Description:
Camp Pollock Energy-Efficiency & Lighting Improvement Project will install new and upgraded lighting in a community recreational room, with critical updates to the main-hall and kitchen facilities.

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Saint John’s Program for Real Change
Award: $47,453

Project Description:
Phase 1 facilities improvements to decrease the energy footprint.

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Sierra Service Project
Award: $10,000

Project Description:
Year-long home repair program for residents of North Sacramento and Del Paso Heights.

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Stockton Boulevard Partnership
Award: $15,000

Project Description:
Addressing issues in the community such as lighting, security, trash clean-up, graffiti, façade updates and code issues.

Alchemist CDC
Award: $15,989

Project Description
This revitalization and neighborhood cleanup project will address residential blight; cleanup of Pansy Community Garden Park and the renovation of residential blocks in Oak Park.

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Cordova Lancers Leaders & Legends
Award: $6,000

Project Description
This workforce development and neighborhood cleanup project provides Cordova High School’s vocational program students basic lawn maintenance skills and how to repair and maintain the equipment they are using.

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Del Paso Boulevard Partnership Foundation
Award: $10,500

Project Description:
This crime prevention through environmental design project is to improve safety, reduce crime and raise visibility with the installation of 22 security cameras along Del Paso Boulevard from Highway 160 to Lampasas Avenue. The system includes servers and an upgraded Wi-Fi system for Boulevard business owners in partnership with Sac PD.

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Fair Oaks Park Foundation
Award: $5,000

Project Description
This crime prevention through environmental design project will install a solar-augmented electrical system to support security lighting, refrigeration, lighting and power for the Food Closet Farm’s storage shed.

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FosterHope Sacramento
Award: $2,329

Project Description
This lighting improvement project increases safety and visibility during supervised visits of foster children by parents and guardians.

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Franklin Neighborhood Development Corporation
Award: $51,000

Project Description
This new construction project for Mercado marketplace for low to middle income entrepreneurs will include food trailers and a commercial kitchen that supports new food business incubator programs.

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Freedom Through Education
Award: $11,975

Project Description
This workforce and neighborhood cleanup project will provide workplace training for those reentering Sacramento communities from prison and work opportunities to improve the low-income, high-crime community nearby. The neighborhood cleanup project offers free landscaping to low income and disabled residents.

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Girls Scouts Heart of Central California
Award: $50,000

Project Description
This facility and equipment improvements project brings STEM education to under-served, low income girls with a new Mobile STEM Center + MakerSpace.  Through collaboration with 25 schools and their after-school program providers, GSHCC will deliver a combination of STEM and leadership programming to 500 low income girls in the first-pilot year of operation.

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Girls Self-Esteem Program
Award: $5,000

Project Description
This facility and equipment improvements project renovates the spring dance floor, replaces the broken ballet barre and mirrors of a deteriorating dance studio in Oak Park.

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Improve Your Tomorrow
Award: $45,926

Project Description
This STEM program for Decoders Anonymous summer coding camp – in partnership with Square Root Academy, CA State University, Sacramento and Cosumnes River College – will place 100 rising juniors in an intensive four-week coding boot camp.

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La Familia Counseling Center
Award: $25,000

Project Description
This facility and equipment improvements project for the renovation of Maple Neighborhood Center on Franklin Boulevard serves as a hub for civic engagement, continued learning, entertainment, social interaction and economic empowerment.

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Los Rios Colleges Foundation
Award: $48,157

Project Description
This workforce development project for Tiny Home Village and sustainable landscape will provide workforce training in designing and building energy-efficient tiny homes and sustainable landscaping that can serve as a living lab on the Cosumnes River College campus.

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Midtown Sacramento PBID Corp (MBA)
Award: $3,040

Project Description
This lighting improvements project for the installation of LED tree lighting at the corner of 24th and K Streets will enhance the optics of multiple restaurants, entertainment and residential customers.

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Parent Teacher Home Visits
Award: $27,505

Project Description
This STEM program is for STEM educators who are trained to detect biased behaviors in high-needs schools in Sacramento County. The 4-phase STEM program will:
• Train STEM teachers on using PTHVs relational model of home visits and current research to understand and disrupt unconscious bias in the classroom; 
• Utilize PTHVs model to build relationships with their students and families by visiting their homes; 
• Provide training to understand the current research on unconscious bias and the role it plays in STEM education;
• And develop a professional process that helps teachers recognize and change thoughts and behaviors that have a basis in their own unconscious bias, and that could be inadvertently limiting their students’ achievement.

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Pioneer Congregational United Church of Christ
Award: $15,000

Project Description
This energy-efficiency building upgrades project will renovate a defunct kitchen, which serves approximately 1,800 homeless residents. Pioneer is a winter shelter for the homeless and year-round resource for the housing insecure.

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ReIMAGINE Mack Road
Award: $16,837

Project Description
This lighting improvements and workforce project installs new and upgraded lighting in a community recreational space and provides supportive employment opportunities to at-risk youth residing in the Valley-Mack neighborhood in South Sacramento.

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Roberts Family Development Center
Award: $51,000

Project Description
This energy-efficiency building upgrades project will update the bathroom and kitchen facilities and a portion of roof repairs and a sprinkler system in the Main Center Hall. The Main Center serves 10 youth daily, 50 parents weekly and 25 outside agencies annually. The Hall is used for over 15 family events annually.

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Sacramento Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc. / NeighborWorks
Award: $10,000

Project Description
This workforce development and neighborhood cleanup project with NeighborWorks, in partnership with “Brother to Brother” organizes groups of former gang-affiliated men with criminal history who are now active in improving their community and providing leadership to mentor young men. This neighborhood beautification project organizes cleanups and gleans produce from neighbors’ yards. 

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San Juan Unified School District
Award: $2,500

Project Description
This STEM program will provide materials and equipment for Rio Americano High School’s Robotics Team World Championship International Robotics Competition in Houston, Texas.

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Sierra Nevada Journeys
Award: $2,500

Project Description
This STEM program and workforce development project assists with a teacher boot camp to help educators implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) adopted in 2013. The Boot Camp focuses on teachers in under-served communities, such as North Sacramento.

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Watt Avenue Partnership (80 Watt District)
Award: $20,000

Project Description
This crime prevention through environmental design project will make the district a safer place, while increasing business/customer traffic through the installation of security cameras to address pervasive crime, increase property values, attract businesses and improve the neighborhood's image.

Award: $11,500

Center for Land-Based Learning
Award: $9,384

Project Description
Habitat restoration at Stone Lakes National Wildlife Refuge is the perfect opportunity to provide a real-world learning experience for Valley High School students. This project offers high school students and community volunteers the opportunity to positively contribute to local environmental stewardship efforts while learning. The program is designed around a series of four full-day field trips to an adopted restoration project where high school students participate in a wide variety of habitat restoration tasks. These activities follow the restoration cycle and include planting native vegetation, installing drip irrigation, removing invasive species, building and installing nest boxes for secondary cavity nesting birds and monitoring plant survival.

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CLARA
Award: $9,500

Project Description
Establish a Neighborhood Community Garden at CLARA (the E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts at 2420 N Street). Some years back, we established two neighborhood community gardens in this area - both sites are now developed with housing. However, the lawn area in front of CLARA is ideal to replace with a community garden - and we have a plan initially prepared in conjunction with William Maynard, the city community garden coordinator.

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Common Ground Community Development Corporation
Award: $10,000

Project Description
In one of the most diverse areas in one of the most diverse cities in America, The Common Ground CDC Community Garden is establishing an “urban oasis” for the residents of the Valley Hi Community of Sacramento. 

The Urban Oasis exists to provide a place of connection, nutritional education, and access to healthy food for all people. The project embodies the idea that everyone should have equal access to live a healthy life, and that we are simply better together. The Urban Oasis is a community garden that will be managed by students from the local high school in an After School Garden Club that will utilize Hands-On STEM: Garden-Based Education curriculum to reinforce STEM learning outside the classroom. In addition to providing continued STEM learning, nutrition and agricultural education will also be provided.  Furthermore, the students will have the opportunity to conduct community workshops on health and nutrition. Students will also learn soft skills such as teamwork, appreciating differences, public speaking, and stewardship.

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Crocker Art Museum
Award: $20,000

Project Description
The Crocker Art Museum seeks funding in the amount of $35,000 from SMUD to implement Block by Block 2.0, an arts engagement initiative focused on enhancing community life and cultural participation in ways that resonates with diverse audiences, affirms the relevance and value of the arts, supports and encourages creativity and resilience within youth, and most importantly, builds channels for community connectivity and exchange beyond historical, constructed and self-imposed silos. Among other goals, Block by Block 2.0 aims to break down barriers and strengthen connections between the Crocker Art Museum and the community by co-creating neighborhood-based arts experiences with youth, community leaders, and artists interested in using the arts to improve the quality of life in Sacramento’s Promise Zone.

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Del Paso Boulevard Partnership
Award: $10,000

Project Description
The Art Nursery of Old North Sacramento will transform a 3/4 acre vacant corner lot and building on Del Paso Blvd into a family-friendly, indoor/outdoor venue with a food and beverage component; a creative placemaking research and design facility; an events center that specializes in community and non-profit events; and, a STEM education facility that includes the arts. Its overarching goal is to create employment opportunities, especially for students, the partially disabled and other disadvantaged sectors.

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Fairytale Town
Award: $25,000

Project Description
The Sacramento Adventure Playground is a free after-school youth development program, powered by Fairytale Town and located at Maple Neighborhood Center (formerly Maple Elementary School) in South Sacramento. Essentially a maker lab, the Adventure Playground puts real tools – hammers, nails, drills, saws, paints, clay, and such – into the hands of youth ages 7 to 15 so they can bring their creative ideas to life. The Adventure Playground is open year-round during after-school hours and on Saturdays. In addition, the Playground offers a Community Day once a month so children of all ages can participate in the unique play opportunities that are offered there. The Adventure Playground also offers play activities for children participating in the summer lunch program at Maple Neighborhood Center and for school field trips to the Center. Plus, we are developing programs for specific audiences such as children with disabilities and home-school students.

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Greater Broadway Partnership
Award: $10,000

Project Description
The Greater Broadway District is looking to innovative technologies to help ease our clean and safe issues on Broadway.  We would like to place two Bigbelly trash and two Bigbelly recycle bins in the Tower District of Greater Broadway. The Bigbelly bin is a solar-powered cordless trash compaction system. They will reduce the number of trash collections as well as eliminate trash overflow.  The bins also include Wi-Fi so that a text message is sent out when they require service reducing needless trips.

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Health Education Council
Award: $30,000

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My Sister's House
Award: $20,000

Project Description:
My Sister's House project is to add a kitchen and storage area to its training area so that its domestic violence survivors and staff and volunteers can have a better food prep and clean-up area for trainings and for self-care, This is especially needed as currently, a bathroom sink is where dishes are cleaned.  There is no kitchen or storage area at My Sister's House training where more than 30 victims receive training one night a week, with their children and are fed immediately prior to the training.  At least 5 days a week My Sister's House holds a group meeting at its training site.

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NeighborWorks
Award: $10,000

Project Description
Through our annual Paint The Town home improvement project, NeighborWorks Sacramento will select a street in the Del Paso neighborhood and work with a 6 – 12 teams of volunteers to complete 15 – 20 home and neighborhood improvement projects, all at no cost to the home owner.

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Rosemont Community Foundation
Award: $10,000

Project Description
This grant application focuses on the maintenance and prevention aspect of neighborhood clean up for community and economic development. The work proposed to be done with this grant includes, as prioritized by circumstances at the time;
• community cleanup of occasional illegal dumps;
• providing assistance in immediately abating graffiti that occasionally appears here;
• sponsoring regular “dumpster days” where residents can bring their unwanted items and dispose of them for free (a recent dumpster day collected over 43 tons)
• doing landscaping and weed abatement work at vacant properties where there is no development or responsible owners;
• supporting the communication systems of RCA in the community;
• maintenance and installation of entrance signage to better identify the community to those who may consider living here;
• securing more code and law enforcement support;
• assisting to support other organizations here that provide complimentary community services.

Sacramento Native American Health Center, Inc.
Award: $39,490

 

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Award: $12,500

Project Description:

A park improvement project to improve the environment of the park, encourage greater use, and provide amenities that are not currently present at the site.  New items include an addition to the children's play area, an off leash dog area, a group use picnic shelter with new tables and a grill, rehab of the existing tennis courts into a multi-sport facility (basketball court, tennis court, volleyball, badminton, pickle ball, and small court soccer); improvements to the parking area and park pathways to meet accessibility standards; and addition of safety lighting on the park walkways and LED lighting in the parking lot.

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Sierra Nevada Journeys
Award: $24,958

Project Description
Sierra Nevada Journeys provides Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) and outdoor science education to Sacramento area 1st – 6th graders, predominantly from low-income areas, through our Classrooms Unleashed program. The Classrooms Unleashed program will deliver grade-appropriate state science standard based programming to each class during three classroom lessons and a half-day outdoor science experience at a local nature site. In addition to the programming we’ll deliver directly to the children, SNJ will provide their teachers (89 total) with five innovative, ready-to-use STEM lessons that extend and reinforce the concepts, skills and ideas from each unit. SNJ seeks SMUD award to help fund the considerable Classrooms Unleashed program’s growth – nearly double – from last school year.  Current funding through grants and in-kind volunteerism covers 68% of this Fall’s project.  With SMUD’s help, SNJ will be able to provide Classrooms Unleashed programming to all 18 schools and 89 classrooms.

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Square Root Academy
Award: $30,750

Project Description
The Square Root Academy is proposing to expand its existing Saturday program at John Still K-8 by adding a second 30-student cohort to its weekly schedule. Each week, thirty middle school aged, low-income, minority students are led through a hands on STEM based activity (detailed later in this proposal) by a team of Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accredited instructors. To ensure the delivery of high impact and personalized instruction, we maintain a ratio of one instructor for every seven students. Support from SMUD would allow for us to double the number of students being served through this highly successful weekly STEM offering.

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Stockton Blvd Partnership
Award: $10,000

Project Description
The purpose of the Block by Block Program is to identify and assess blocks with high crime statistics, chronic homelessness, prostitution issues, or extreme blight using Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED).  This program will address specific issues such as lighting, security, trash clean up, graffiti, facade updates, and code issues.  The Block by Block program will enhance the physical environment of Stockton Boulevard in order to reduce criminal activity and encourage a safe environment for businesses to thrive and residents and patrons to live, work, and play. Project goals:

1. Identify specific areas along Stockton Blvd between 2nd Ave and 65th Street which are high in crime to complete the contiguous block by block assessment. 2. Complete assessment identifying CPTED issues, using the principles of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED). 3. Successfully address priority items identified in assessment to encourage a safe place. 4. Educate property and business owners on CPTED, Financial Literacy, Energy Efficiency, and other as needed subjects.  5. Create a new culture that encourages community involvement and sustainability.

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Sunrise Little League
Award: $6,067

Project Description
This project is to revitalize and improve safety on two of the four little league baseball fields at C-Bar-C Park located in Citrus Heights. The project is to upgrade the sprinkler system on both fields as well as remove and replace the infield on one of the fields. The watering system is out of date and inefficient to keep the fields in a playable condition year after year. With an update to one watering system of one the fields we hope to be able to bring back life to that field and the other field is to the point where the grass will have to be replaced.

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Watt Avenue Partnership
Award: $4,910

Project Description
The proposed project is to make the district a safer place at night, while increasing business/customer traffic, through the installation of five additional nightlights within the boundaries of the partnership.

William Land Elementary - Parent Teacher Association

Award: $4,927

Project Description
Drought tolerant plants and energy efficient drip irrigation will be installed at the William Land Elementary site. The sidewalk landscape will also be improved by putting a material that prevents run off and withstand the demanding foot traffic from students and their caregivers as they walk to and from the school site. In addition, we will add a Community Library Box that will house Grade level books about the science/botany of the plants we reviewed and other STEM material and include the addition of other books from the community.

Wind Youth Services
Award: $100,000