Assistance Marketplace

CCEC’s Assistance Marketplace is a regional based guide showcasing organizations in all nine regions of California (iteratively updated) that provide FREE funding, incentives, or technical assistance to local, tribal, CBOs, NGOs, or schools to an individual region.

Description of Assistance Opportunity:

Energy Efficiency Programs

Region(s) Served: Central Coast
Who is providing this assistance:
Organization: 3C-REN
Org Type: County
Contact: Itzel Torres
Assistance Type:
  • Incentives
Activities Covered:
  • Climate Action Planning & Implementation
  • Building Energy Efficiency & Electrification
  • Electric Vehicle & Charging Infrastructure
Eligibility:
  • Tribal Governments
  • Tribal Residents
  • Cities
  • Counties
  • Individuals
  • COGs
  • Nonprofits
Description of Assistance Opportunity:

Ascent is an interdisciplinary collaborative, dedicated to advancing community vitality, climate action, environmental stewardship, and inclusive, equitable outcomes.

Region(s) Served: North Coast, Sacramento Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, Central Coast, Sierra Nevada, San Joaquin Valley, Greater Los Angeles, Inland Deserts, San Diego, Statewide
Who is providing this assistance:
Organization: Ascent
Org Type: Private Sector
Contact: Hannah Kornfeld
Assistance Type:
  • TA - Project Scoping and Development
  • TA - Grant Writing
  • TA - Other
  • Training and Capacity Building
Activities Covered:
  • Climate Action Planning & Implementation
  • Smart Growth & Land Use Planning
  • Affordable/Climate Resilient Housing
  • Climate Vulnerability Assessment & Adaptation Planning
  • Adaptation/Resilience Strategy Implementation
  • Natural & Working Lands Stewardship
  • Renewable Energy & Storage
  • Energy & Grid Resilience Planning
  • Building Energy Efficiency & Electrification
  • Electric Vehicle & Charging Infrastructure
Eligibility:
  • Tribal Governments
  • Cities
  • Counties
  • COGs
  • Nonprofits

California Marine Sanctuary Foundation

Description of Assistance Opportunity:

Climate adaptation capacity building, networking, assessment of wetland restoration and wildfire fuel reduction effectiveness in reducing climate impacts

Region(s) Served: Central Coast
Who is providing this assistance:
Organization: California Marine Sanctuary Foundation
Org Type: Philanthropy/Foundation
Contact: Jessie Traller Ojeda
Assistance Type:
  • Training and Capacity Building
Activities Covered:
  • Climate Vulnerability Assessment & Adaptation Planning
  • Adaptation/Resilience Strategy Implementation
Eligibility:
  • Tribal Governments
  • Tribal Residents
  • Cities
  • Counties
  • Individuals
  • COGs
  • Nonprofits
Description of Assistance Opportunity:

Energy Efficiency Programs

Region(s) Served: Central Coast, Sierra Nevada, San Joaquin Valley
Who is providing this assistance:
Organization: AMBAG
Org Type: Government Association
Contact: Amaury Berteaud
Assistance Type:
  • Incentives
  • Training and Capacity Building
Activities Covered:
  • Climate Action Planning & Implementation
  • Climate Vulnerability Assessment & Adaptation Planning
  • Adaptation/Resilience Strategy Implementation
  • Building Energy Efficiency & Electrification
Eligibility:
  • Cities
  • Counties
  • Individuals
  • COGs
  • Nonprofits
Description of Assistance Opportunity:

We provide technical assistance to organizations interested in brownfields and land recycling. We also develop educational materials, such as webinars, funding matrices for parks + general redevelopment and an “Equity Guide” to Advance EJ in Brownfield Reuse.

Region(s) Served: North Coast, Sacramento Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, Central Coast, Sierra Nevada, San Joaquin Valley, Greater Los Angeles, Inland Deserts, San Diego, Statewide
Who is providing this assistance:
Organization: Center for Creative Land Recycling
Org Type: Nonprofit Organization
Contact: Nicole Lang
Assistance Type:
  • TA - Other
Activities Covered:
  • Smart Growth & Land Use Planning
Eligibility:
  • Tribal Governments
  • Tribal Residents
  • Cities
  • Counties
  • Individuals
  • COGs
  • Nonprofits
Description of Assistance Opportunity:

The Central Coast Climate Collaborative (4C) is a membership network and an organizing platform, uniting local governments, communities, nonprofits, businesses, academia, and Tribes to collaboratively advance climate equity and resilience across California’s Central Coast region. In particular, we offer services to support the development and advancement of community resilience hubs, funding navigation assistance, and grant writing support services.

Region(s) Served: Central Coast
Who is providing this assistance:
Organization: Central Coast Climate Collaborative (4C)
Org Type:
Contact: Julia Kim
Assistance Type:
  • TA - Project Scoping and Development
  • TA - Grant Writing
  • Training and Capacity Building
Activities Covered:
  • Climate Action Planning & Implementation
  • Climate Vulnerability Assessment & Adaptation Planning
  • Adaptation/Resilience Strategy Implementation
  • Organizational Development
Eligibility:
  • Tribal Governments
  • Cities
  • Counties
  • COGs
  • Nonprofits
Description of Assistance Opportunity:

At no cost to program participants, CC-LEAP provides customized and objective project management, engineering, and financing support services as a “one-stop shop” enabling participants to achieve streamlined and cost-effective energy upgrades.

Region(s) Served: Central Coast
Who is providing this assistance:
Organization: CC-LEAP
Org Type: Government Association
Contact: Karba Eckley
Assistance Type:
  • TA - Project Scoping and Development
  • Incentives
  • Training and Capacity Building
Activities Covered:
  • Climate Action Planning & Implementation
  • Renewable Energy & Storage
  • Energy & Grid Resilience Planning
  • Building Energy Efficiency & Electrification
Eligibility:
  • Tribal Governments
  • Cities
  • Counties
Description of Assistance Opportunity:

LARC is a network of local governments, regional agencies, non-profit organizations, businesses, utilities, and academics working together to advance climate mitigation and adaptation efforts in the Los Angeles region. LARC serves as a convening body to support collaboration between local jurisdictions to coordinate regional climate action and adaptation efforts, maximize limited resources, and optimize outcomes for the LA region as a whole. This is accomplished through a series of established meetings that encourage peer-to-peer knowledge transfer amongst climate planners and practitioners.

Region(s) Served: Greater Los Angeles
Who is providing this assistance:
Organization: LARC
Org Type: Academia/Research
Contact: Erin Coutts
Assistance Type:
  • Training and Capacity Building
Activities Covered:
  • Climate Action Planning & Implementation
  • Climate Vulnerability Assessment & Adaptation Planning
Eligibility:
  • Tribal Governments
  • Tribal Residents
  • Cities
  • Counties
  • Individuals
  • COGs
  • Nonprofits
Description of Assistance Opportunity:

As a Community Choice Aggregator, we reinvest revenue into Buena Park, Fullerton, Irvine, and now Fountain Valley.

Region(s) Served: Greater Los Angeles
Who is providing this assistance:
Organization: Orange County Power Authority
Org Type: CCA
Contact: Nataly Morales
Assistance Type:
  • Grant Funding
  • Incentives
Activities Covered:
  • Building Energy Efficiency & Electrification
  • Electric Vehicle & Charging Infrastructure
Eligibility:
  • Tribal Governments
  • Tribal Residents
  • Cities
  • Counties
  • COGs
  • Nonprofits
Description of Assistance Opportunity:

Developing & promoting reach codes, providing technical assistance to local jurisdictions, advancing building performance standards, education and outreach

Region(s) Served: Sierra Nevada, Greater Los Angeles, Inland Deserts
Who is providing this assistance:
Organization: Southern California Edison
Org Type: IOU/Utility
Contact: Amy Discher
Assistance Type:
  • Training and Capacity Building
Activities Covered:
  • Renewable Energy & Storage
  • Energy & Grid Resilience Planning
  • Building Energy Efficiency & Electrification
Eligibility:
  • Tribal Governments
  • Tribal Residents
  • Cities
  • Counties
  • Individuals

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