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Stormwater Quality

Community Action Grants

Stormwater Quality

Community Action Grants

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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.

The grants provide up to $3,000 to a project and are designed to help prevent urban runoff pollution and protect water quality.

A variety of community groups — including schools and student groups, neighborhood organizations and informal groups — can apply.

How to apply

Fill out the application below and return it by email or mail by Feb. 26, 2024.

Call 916-808-6924 or email lledesma@cityofsacramento.org if you have any questions.

Apply here

Grant application

Eligibility

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.

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

Grant funding does not cover planning, research, payment for labor, travel except for bus rental, curriculum development, administrative processing fees, or activities required for compliance with regulatory requirements.

Project ideas

Applicants are encouraged to use their imagination to generate new ideas, be innovative and have fun.

Education projects

Create materials or activities that educate people on how to help prevent pollution
Write a stream or watershed guidebook and conduct tours or field trips
Create displays or signs related to water quality

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

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