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Application Procedures

Climate Protection Grant Program Public Workshop October 3, 2007 Abby Young Principal Environmental Planner. Application Procedures. Eligible applicants: Public agencies Non-profits K-12 schools Small businesses Paperless application process. Goal.

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  1. Climate Protection Grant ProgramPublic Workshop October 3, 2007 Abby YoungPrincipal Environmental Planner

  2. Application Procedures • Eligible applicants: Public agencies Non-profits K-12 schools Small businesses • Paperless application process

  3. Goal • To achieve meaningful reductions in greenhouse gas emissions through implementation of long-term solutions throughout the region • Reductions in GHGs – need to quantify • Long-term – sustainable reductions • Regional – through replication or potential

  4. Objectives • Expand best practices • Foster innovative approaches • Institutionalize long-term climate protection through the planning process • Achieve co-benefits • Achieve market transformation • Engage impacted communities

  5. Program Category Overview • Outreach - Youth Climate Grants $10,000-25,000 • Planning - Climate Planning Grants $25,000-75,000 - Capacity-building Grants $50,000-75,000 • Regional Strategies - Regionalizing Best Practices $25,000-75,000 - Fostering Innovative Approaches $25,000-75,000

  6. Youth Climate Grants • Grant size: $10,000 – 25,000 • Duration: 12 months • Eligible applicants: youth/community organizations, K-12 schools • Focus: Impact beyond the borders of an individual school

  7. Youth Climate Grants • General Ideas: • projects that encourage actions at home or in the community; • reduction in school-related vehicle travel; • projects that get kids to use alternatives to driving or being driven to/from school; • innovative peer-to-peer education approaches; • school-to-school best practice exchanges

  8. Youth Climate Grants • Good: • Competition between classes on replacing CFLs at home • Not so good: • Producing public education materials to raise general awareness of climate change and how it may affect your community

  9. Climate Protection Planning Grants • Grant size: $25,000 – 75,000 • Duration: 1-2 years • Eligible applicants: local governments • Focus: Integrating climate protection into general plan; stand-alone climate action plans

  10. Climate Protection Planning Grants • General Ideas: • expansion of technical capacity (staffing, consultants) to integrate climate planning into general plan processes; • public input process for integrating climate protection into existing planning processes or for stand-alone climate action plan; • active engagement of impacted communities in the climate planning process.

  11. Climate Protection Planning Grants • Good: • Fully integrating greenhouse gas mitigation into multiple elements of general plan • Not so good: • Developing a climate change adaptation plan

  12. Capacity-building Grants • Grant size: $50,000 – 75,000 • Duration: 12-18 months • Eligible applicants: local governments • Focus: Seed funding for municipal energy officers

  13. Capacity-building Grants • General Ideas: • perform audits of municipal buildings and facilities • review energy bills to check for accuracy/find over-payments • serve as point of contact for new energy information, opportunities • develop energy plan for municipality • apply for grant funding

  14. Capacity-building Grants • Good: • Three jurisdictions share an energy officer, each getting 1.5 days/week • Not so good: • Use grant to offset costs of existing energy officer so a new transportation planner can be hired

  15. Regionalizing Best Practices Grants • Grant size: $25,000 – 75,000 • Duration: 1 year • Eligible applicants: public agencies, community organizations, small businesses, K-12 schools • Focus: Replicating existing best practices

  16. Regionalizing Best Practices Grants • General Ideas: • Packaging implementation how-tos for an existing best practice • Developing training on how to replicate the practice among peers • Include targets/commitments for replication

  17. Regionalizing Best Practices Grants • Good: • Creating boiler plate code language, how-to documents, group training and individual follow-upfor an existing cool-roof policy • Not so good: • Implementing a new cool-roof project

  18. Fostering Innovation Grants • Grant size: $25,000 – 75,000 • Duration: 1-2 years • Eligible applicants: public agencies, community organizations, small businesses, K-12 schools • Focus: Doing something that’s not been done before, then replicating it

  19. Fostering Innovation Grants • General Ideas: • Small business purchasing collective for solar PV • Municipal carbon tax • “Buy local” purchasing policy • Low carbon requirement for school activities • Congestion pricing (i.e. London’s)

  20. Fostering Innovation Grants • Good: • Creating a “buy-local” purchasing policy that included life-cycle carbon analysis • Not so good: • Implementing an environmentally preferable purchasing policy

  21. Evaluation Criteria General Criteria: • Potential for GHG reduction • Connection with Grant Program’s goal and objectives • Technical strength and feasibility of strategic approach • Organizational capacity • Matching funds • Demonstration of climate achievement • Strength of proposal

  22. Additional CriteriaClimate Protection Planning Grants Engagement of “impacted communities”: • Areas with high emissions, exposed populations and low-income • See link on page 5 of guidelines (in footnote) • Include these populations in planning process

  23. Additional CriteriaCapacity-building Grants Finance strategy for sustaining the position: • Extra points for each year funding is secured beyond grant seed funding • Integrated into municipal budget • Demonstrate known projects and estimated savings • Identify grants to be pursued

  24. Additional CriteriaRegional Strategy Grants Cost-effectiveness: • Based on solid estimation of GHG reductions • Need to know: energy savings, VMT reduction, waste reduction (type and amount)

  25. Evaluation Criteria General Criteria: • Potential for GHG reduction • Connection with Grant Program’s goal and objectives • Technical strength and feasibility of strategic approach • Organizational capacity • Matching funds • Demonstration of climate achievement • Strength of proposal

  26. Quantifying Emissions • Outreach: identify audience, estimate impact • Planning: provide examples of how project will impact GHG emissions • Regional Strategies: Determine energy / fuel / waste reduction

  27. Application Procedures • Email only • 8 page maximum • Cover page • Project budget • Attachments: vary by type of applicant

  28. Timeline • Call for proposals closes November 9 • Review of applications Nov/Dec • Recommendations to Board Dec/Jan • Finalize awards Jan/Feb

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