PG&E Provides $400,000 in Resilience Hubs Grants to Help Communities Address Climate and Disaster Needs
PG&E Provides $400,000 in Resilience Hubs Grants to Help Communities Address Climate and Disaster Needs |
| [30-July-2025] |
A Total of $2 Million Has Been Awarded Since the Program Began OAKLAND, Calif., July 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has awarded seven community organizations a total of $400,000 to build climate resilience through its Resilience Hubs Grant program.
Over five years, the program has awarded a total of $2 million to 35 grantees in PG&E's Northern and Central California service area. Grant recipients have included local or tribal governments and educational and nonprofit organizations. Communities across California face growing threats from extreme weather including coastal and inland flooding, heat waves, wildfires and more powerful storms. The resilience grants help communities create a physical space or provide resources for residents like power, shelter and information. Climate-driven disruptions can also include wildfires and safety-driven power shutoffs. These "resilience hubs" can be accessed year-round as a community resource. The city of Richmond, a past grant recipient, used its funding to create a community space powered by renewable energy. It provides shade, electricity and resources for at-risk community members during extreme weather events. [See a video of the Richmond Resilience Hub project.] "We are proud that our Resilience Hubs grant program has helped organizations taking the lead on building community-based climate resilience," said Carla Peterman, Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Chief Sustainability Officer for PG&E Corporation. "Working together, these innovative and sustainable solutions will benefit our hometowns for years to come." This year's grants include four $25,000 grants (totaling $100,000) and three $100,000 grants (totaling $300,000). Grants are funded by PG&E Corporation shareholders as part of PG&E's investments in statewide wildfire resiliency and response, required by the California Public Utilities Commission. The five-year program has concluded with the distribution of this year's grant awards. Little Manila Rising in Stockton is one of this year's grant recipients. Its grant will help develop a resiliency center in an area where there are few community facilities. "This opportunity will allow us to plan for extreme weather scenarios and coordinate with other CBOs (community-based organizations) and public agencies to both prepare residents for and to mobilize for times of emergency," said Irene Calimlim, Little Manila Rising's community development director. Awards of $25,000 each for four Feasibility Projects. The grants will fund an assessment of resilience hub needs and/or conceptual ideas for a resilience hub. Grant awardees are:
Awards of $100,000 each for three Design and Build Projects. The grants will go toward the design and/or creation of a resilience hub. The organizations will either plan and design new physical spaces or mobile resources or retrofit existing buildings or structures to support community resilience. Grant awardees are:
Priority went to projects that address the needs of disadvantaged and/or vulnerable communities. Strategies and solutions resulting from the grants will be made public to help all communities and encourage local and regional partnerships. See the list of five years of awarded projects. About PG&E
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