Climate

To support California Native American Tribes located within the State in advancing land acquisition with multi-benefit nature-based solutions projects.

The National Tribal Geographic Information Support Center (NTGISC) is offering members an 8-week, 16-session online course on using ESRI’s ArcGIS Pro. The course begins with introductory geography skills and familiarizes students with the software, essential tools and workflows to visualize spatial data and perform fundamental analysis.

This advisory group advances regional climate priorities and community-driven solutions for local governments. Members bring diverse lived experiences and perspectives to help shape sustainability initiatives and ensure they reflect the needs of historically underserved communities. Members will receive $150 per meeting for their time and for sharing their perspectives.

The National Household Wasted Food Prevention Project (NHWFPP) will be coordinating a national media campaign and community grants, both will focus on changing specific habits and behaviors to prevent wasted food in households. Innovator Grants support creative, locally tailored strategies to motivate target audiences to reduce wasted food. Catalyst Grants support larger-scale projects to implement household wasted food prevention strategies across a variety of communities.

To fund new construction and upgrades of neighborhood-level resilience centers to provide shelter and resources during climate and other emergencies. The program will also fund year-round services and ongoing programming that build overall community resilience.

Tribal Wildfire Resilience grants is part of CAL FIRE’s Climate and Energy Program and supports California Native American Tribes in managing ancestral lands, implementing and promoting Traditional Environmental Knowledges in wildfire resilience, and establishing wildfire safety for Tribal communities.

Regional Grants will direct funding to forest collaboratives, regional entities, and other collaborative partnerships that develop, plan, and implement portfolios of multi-benefit projects across a landscape, including across landownerships. Regional Grants have the potential to bring funding to high-priority projects that would not otherwise have access to CAL FIRE’s grants or similar grant funding. They also seek to foster regional capacity building and partnerships by providing resources to carry out regional priority projects.

To fund community-led development and infrastructure projects that achieve major environmental, health, and economic benefits in California’s most disadvantaged communities. The program empowers the communities most impacted by pollution to choose the strategies and projects best suited to achieve their community vision and enact transformational change. All with data-driven milestones and measurable outcomes.

The program aims to support efforts that combine community services and physical improvements to protect the health of Californians who are most vulnerable to extreme heat.

The intent of CAL FIRE's Forest Health Research Program is to fund scientific research that expands our knowledge in topics related to forest health and wildland fire. The outcomes of these projects will support agencies, organizations, landowners, and policy makers, while furthering the goals of the California Forest and Wildfire Resilience Action Plan and California Climate Investments.