Grants

The California Conservation Corps awards grants to Local Conservation Corps and California Native American Tribes to support job skills training and educational opportunities while preserving and protecting the environment.

Contact
Grants.Certification@ccc.ca.gov

No CCC funding opportunities are available at this time. For inquiries regarding CCC grant programs please email our Grants and Certification team. To view all state agency grants, visit the California Grants Portal.

Nature-Based Solutions: Tribal Corps

Status
Closed for New Applications | Administering Funds

The CCC received $10 million to fund corps programs operated by California Native American tribes – recognized or unrecognized. The Tribal Youth Nature-Based Solutions Conservation Corps (Tribal Corps) provides educational and career pathways for native youth and young adults while preserving and protecting native land. This grant program falls under the umbrella of the California Natural Resources Agency’s initiative for Expanding Nature-Based Solutions as directed by Executive Order N-82-20 signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in October 2020. For general information about the Tribal Corps program and/or technical assistance, please email TribalCorps@ccc.ca.gov. 

Forestry Corps

Status
Closed for New Applications | Administering Funds

The purpose of the Forestry Corps program, established in 2018 by Assembly Bill 2126, is to develop and implement forest health and resilience projects while creating career and educational pathways for corpsmembers in forestry and related fields. The enacted 2023-24 California budget directed $5 million to certified LCCs for forest resilience projects in the form of grants administered by the CCC. The priority of the Forestry Corps Grant Program shall be to develop and implement projects that restore the health and resilience of California forests, grasslands, and natural lands in a manner that reduces wildfire risk to communities, while providing corpsmembers opportunities for workforce development, education and training.

Local Nature-Based Solutions Corps Program

Status
Closed for New Applications | Administering Funds

CCC awards funds to certified LCCs to address the objectives and priorities of the Nature-Based Solutions Initiative. LCCs may establish corps programs and initiate projects that support sustainable land management; promote biodiversity protection, habitat restoration, and wildfire-resilient landscapes; accelerate natural removal of carbon and build climate resilience; and/or expand equitable outdoor access and recreation for all. LCCs should contact their designated grant coordinator for additional information.

Non-Residential Programs Grant

Status
Closed for New Applications | Administering Funds

In support of the CCC’s legislative mandate to develop non-residential programs in urban and non-urban communities which have high concentrations of ethnic-minority youths, a high level of youth unemployment and a need for conservation work, the CCC provides grant funding to certified local conservation corps for corpsmember development and natural resource conservation work. The availability of these funds is subject to budget authorization by the Legislature.

Proposition 68

Status
Closed for New Applications | Administering Funds

Proposition 68, the California Drought, Water, Parks, Climate, Coastal Protection, and Outdoor Access for All Act of 2018, was passed by the voters on June 5, 2018 and authorizes $4 billion in general obligation bonds for state and local parks, environmental protection and restoration projects, water infrastructure projects, and flood protection projects.

Section 80136 of Chapter 10 authorizes the Legislature to appropriate $40,000,000 to the CCC for natural resource conservation projects, and for equipment and facilities acquisition, development, restoration and rehabilitation. Not less than 50% of the amount available must be allocated for grants to certified LCCs.