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About
The Yolo Air Quality Education Grant was established at the Yolo Community Foundation in 2022 to improve air quality by engaging Yolo County children in programs that drive behavior change through education, infrastructure improvements, and more.
Application Opens
September 23, 2024Application Closes
October 11, 2024Grant Criteria & Application
The fund will award up to $10,000, to project(s) that reflect the following:
- Projects should serve children living and/or going to school in Woodland, West Sacramento, and/or unincorporated Yolo County; in addition to children, parents of children under age 18 may also be a program target.
- Program must focus on improving air quality by reducing driving.
- Behavior change resulting from the program may be short-term (e.g., increase the number of kids that bike to school this year) or long-term (e.g., increase children’s understanding of the importance of air quality and the impact that driving has on air quality, to shift their mindsets and encourage positive choices over the course of many years).
- Programs should be executed between January 2025 and December 2025.
To be eligible, organizations must:
- Be considered a 501(c)(3) nonprofit or be fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)(3) organization. Teachers are eligible (and encouraged) to apply and may be fiscally sponsored by their PTA or another 501(c)3.
- Have a current profile on GivingEdge, or agree to submit a profile prior to the final report deadline.
- Have demonstrated expertise in working with children and in environmental issues; expertise in air quality and/or reducing driving is ideal but not required.
- Use funding to serve children in Woodland, West Sacramento, and/or unincorporated Yolo County.
Questions
For questions about the Yolo Air Quality Education Grant program, please contact the Yolo Community Foundation’s Carolina Valverde at carolina.valverde@yolocf.org. Please contact us for questions about the grant application system.
Proposals will only be accepted through our online application; no email or paper applications will be accepted.
Please ensure your organization’s legal name associated with your tax ID number and mailing address are current in your grant organization profile. If you are a fiscally sponsored organization, please make sure your fiscal sponsor name and tax ID number are current in your grant organizational profile.
- Davis Forest School
- Winters Combined PTA
- Bike City Theatre Company
About the Yolo Community Foundation
Through our affiliation with the Yolo Community Foundation, we offer our expertise, pool investments for greater return, and handle the administrative aspects of community foundation work — freeing its team to focus on helping Yolo County flourish.