California Consulting is keeping an eye out for funding that is catered to your needs!!

Our most recent 90 days of funding have been highly successful in securing $51,015,932!

This overwhelming success could not have happened without the hard work and dedication of our highly skilled grant writers. Our list of awards is below:

California Consulting Clients the City of Vacaville, San Bernardino County Fire District, and the City of Isleton were awarded the FEMA Assistance Fire Fighters Grants in the following amounts: 

City of Vacaville..................................................$491,705

San Bernardino County Fire Department...........$220,521

City of Isleton.......................................................$18,233

CC Secured a total of $730,459 for our clients. This success is due to our highly skilled grant writers who worked diligently to provide the best application for our clients.

Congratulations!!

California Consulting, CalSchool News, and ACSA Regions 6, 11, and 18 hosted an incredible grant writing Best Practices Webinar specifically designed for education.  

On Tuesday, September 27, 2022, Cal. School News and California Consulting, Inc. teamed up to Host a "Grant Writing Webinar for K-12."  The webinar was a major success with more than 50 school district administrators attending from across the State. ACSA regional chapters 6, 11, and 18 served as Co-Hosts for the webinar. 

The grant writing "best practices" presentation was conducted by California Consulting, Inc. CEO Steve Samuelian and K-12 Senior Grant Writer Dr. Julie High. The PowerPoint presentation was followed by questions from the participants. 

California Consulting sends a huge Thank you to Cal School News and ACSA Regions 6, 11, and 18 for joining us for this informative and well-attended webinar.

UPCOMING GRANTS LIST FOR

OCTOBER 2022

Please view the entire list here: 

· Local Agency Technical Assistance (LATA): The CPUC established the Local Agency Technical Assistance (LATA) grant program for eligible pre-construction work facilitating broadband network projects to areas in need. The program has a $50 million budget for eligible local agencies and tribal entities in California. Technical assistance grants support tribes and local agencies in their efforts to expand broadband to communities lacking sufficient Internet. Grant recipients are reimbursed for eligible pre-construction expenses to provide last-mile connections to unserved and underserved communities. Link: https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/industries-and-topics/internet-and-phone/broadband-implementation-for-california/local-agency-technical-assistance

· CalRecycle: Community Composting for Green Spaces Program: The Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) administers this program to increase the number of community groups operating small-scale composting programs supporting green spaces within Priority Population communities. This effort will also increase local composting capacity while expanding community knowledge about the benefits of compost use and proper composting techniques. Eligible grant projects include regional plans for outreach for the grant project and collaboration with community groups on the creation, improvement, or expansion of community composting sites throughout the Region to increase composting of organics and reduce generation of methane from organic waste decomposing in landfills with a focus on providing benefits to Priority Populations. $4,240,000 available for fiscal year (FY) 2021-22. Deadline is October 20, 2022. Link: https://calrecycle.ca.gov/climate/grantsloans/communitycomposting/fy202122/

ACSA Region 18 Featured the Upcoming Webinar on September 27th

CC is pleased to have our feature articles in Cal School News

California Consulting was featured in their most recent newsletter

ACSA Region 11 Featured CC in the newsletter.

Dr. Julie High is a Senior Project Manager for California Consulting. Julie has over twenty-five years experience in grant writing for education. She has secured more than $35 million in educational grant funding, with over $25 million for one school district.

Julie has experience working in many roles in public education: high school teacher, staff development specialist, middle school instructional coach, preschool director, after school program director, elementary principal, and director of program evaluation and IT. Throughout all of these primary roles, Julie focused on improving education for traditionally underserved populations with successful Federal and State grant funding. In 1994 Julie organized a community collaborative of private businesses and social service agencies to improve services to the outlying community. This collaborative continues to meet and promote community health through its current family resource center base.

Julie earned her Bachelor’s degree from UCLA, Master’s degree from San Jose State University, Professional Administrative Credential from the University of Santa Clara, and her Doctorate in Education from Fielding Graduate University.

When she’s not writing grants, Julie can be found riding and competing in upper-level dressage with her Lusitano gelding, Cefiro do Ceu.

California Consulting is pleased to welcome our new Interns. Please join us in welcoming Joe Tate, Clayton Owens, Kristina Hekimyan, Juliet Deng, Tim Saunders, and Jacob Rose to the team!

Joe Tate

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

Clayton Owens

“Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.”

Kristina Hekimyan

"Keep Moving Forward"

Juliet Deng

"Live by your own law"

Jacob Rose

“Not all treasure is silver and gold”

- Captain Jack Sparrow

Tim Saunders

"Play stupid games, win stupid prizes".

Popular Municipal Grant Opportunities

October 2022

1.     CalRecycle: Rubberized Pavement Grant Program

Deadline: October 12, 2022

https://calrecycle.ca.gov/tires/grants/pavement/fy2022-23/#Documents

2.     U.S. Department of Transportation: Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program - Planning Grants and Capital Construction Grants

Deadline: October 13, 2022

https://www.transportation.gov/grants/reconnecting-communities 

3.     CalRecycle: Community Composting for Green Spaces (FY 2021-22)

Deadline: October 20, 2022

https://calrecycle.ca.gov/climate/grantsloans/communitycomposting/fy202122/

4.     U.S. Department of Transportation: Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants Program

Deadline: November 18, 2022, at 5PM ET

https://www.transportation.gov/grants/SMART

5.     U.S. Department of Transportation: FY22 Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements Grant Program

Deadline: December 1, 2022

https://www.grantsolutions.gov/gs/preaward/previewPublicAnnouncement.do?id=101051

6.     CalRecycle: Tire-Derived Aggregate (TDA) Grant Program

Deadline: December 7, 2022

https://calrecycle.ca.gov/Tires/Grants/TDA/

To view the entire list of our Popular Municipal Grants Opportunities List for October 2022, please click here. 

Popular Educational Grant Opportunities 

October 2022

• CDE School Health Demonstration Project Local Educational Agency Pilot Participants - due 10/10

https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fo/profile.asp?id=5898 (*NOTE: do not mistake this one for the RFA for the technical assistance providers under the same program)

• CDE 21st Century CLC and ASSETs Program - due 11/16

https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fo/profile.asp?id=5877

• California Department of Water Resources Urban Community Drought Relief Program (final guidelines and deadline TBA) 

https://water.ca.gov/Water-Basics/Drought/Drought-Funding/Urban-Drought-Grant

• Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Education (EE) Grant Program (TBA)

https://www.epa.gov/education/grants

To view a complete list of our most popular educational grants please click here.

To View the Complete Educational Grants Opportunities List for October 2022 Please Click Here

City of Pittsburg

California Consulting is honored that the Lemon Grove SD, Housing Auth. of the County of Merced, City of Pittsburg, City of Santa Cruz, City of Suisun City, City of Riverside, San Benito High School District, RJB Produce, Inc./Farm Fresh Fundraising, and the Valley Achievement Center have asked us to provide grant writing services. We look forward to our strategic partnership to secure funding for their vision.

California Consulting is honored that the City of Vacallie, the City of El Segundo, and the City of Carson have renewed their contract. Thank you for your continued confidence in our services.