Priority Area: Funding Access and Capacity Building
Barrier: Application Burden and Accessibility

Challenge/Local/State

Description

Local Solution
(Type of Activity: Policy/Planning/Land Use )

Partner with higher-capacity organizations and regional conveners to distribute grant writing, administration, and reporting burdens, allowing CBOs and smaller jurisdictions to focus on community-facing delivery while partners with greater administrative capacity handle compliance, fiscal management, and reporting, reducing redundancy and expanding equitable access to competitive funding. 

Existing Examples of Progress: 1. San Diego Regional Climate Collaborative and foundations acting as “regional convening facilitators” to lead multi-partner funding efforts. 2. Regional collaboratives supporting low-capacity districts in applications. 3. The Pajaro Valley TCC multi-partner structure distributed planning, community engagement, grant writing, and fiscal management across four organizations, demonstrating this model in practice on the Central Coast.
Region: San Francisco Bay Area, Central Coast, Inland Deserts, San Diego, Statewide

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