97T18101

**Description:** This agreement provides funding under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to La Familia Counseling Center's Greening North Franklin Project to implement several projects to reduce pollution and build climate resilience in South Sacramento.

This includes developing a community resilience hub consisting of the new Opportunity Center and the Maple Neighborhood Center and creating a public park in a neighborhood without green space.

The resilience hub will serve as a cooling center during extreme heat events and provide services to meet community needs in an emergency.

To reduce energy costs and pollution, the project will provide energy efficiency upgrades, install solar on qualifying homes, and provide workforce training in electrification, housing retrofits, and solar installation.

The project will also reduce indoor and outdoor air pollution to neighborhood residents through educational workshops, provision of indoor air quality monitors, and training and financial assistance to small business landscapers to transition to all electric tools.

This assistance agreement provides full federal funding in the amount of $18,560,143 and includes pre-award costs back to November 1, 2024.

**Activities:** The La Familia Counseling Center's Greening North Franklin Project includes seven Climate Action (CA) and Pollution Reduction (PR) strategies, each with specific activities to be performed as follows:

CA Strategy 1. Green Infrastructure and Nature-Based Solution: Converts a blighted sports center adjacent to the Maple Neighborhood Center to create a public park, with community garden, water-friendly landscaping leveraging a grey water capture system, and design features to create and promote healthy neighborhood places.

CA Strategy 3. Energy Efficient, Healthy and Resilient Housing and Buildings: Conducts energy-efficiency audits and weatherizes qualifying homes to reduce energy costs and improve health and quality of life in neighborhood residential homes.

CA Strategy 5. Community Resilience Hub: Develops a resilience hub by constructing the 'Opportunity Center', a new community center.

CA Strategy 8. Workforce Development Program: Implements change-focused education and training for individuals and small businesses to build skills and knowledge to meet the labor demands of the energy-efficiency industry.

PR Strategy 1. Indoor Air Quality and Community Health: Provides education-focused workshops on indoor air quality to increase public awareness on improving personal health conditions, teach about air monitors, and offers indoor air monitors.

PR Strategy 2. Outdoor Air Quality and Community Health: Increases public awareness on outdoor air quality and how it affects health conditions.

Installs outdoor air monitors in the project area and monitors the air quality.

Provides education to small business landscapers through workshops to transition to electric equipment and assists landscapers in making the transition through training and stipends for new electric equipment.

PR Strategy 3. Clean Water Infrastructure: Upgrades water infrastructure at the 74-year-old Maple Neighborhood Center to reduce pollution exposure and increase overall systems resilience.

**Subrecipient:** The activities for the four subawardees in this assistance agreement are described below.

The Franklin Boulevard Business District will provide services to residents and businesses in the area for displacement avoidance.

Sacramento Tree Foundation will implement CA Strategy 1 - Green Infrastructure and Nature-Based Solution: Converts a blighted sports center adjacent to the Maple Neighborhood Center into a public park, with community garden, water-friendly landscaping leveraging a grey water capture system, and design features to create and promote healthy neighborhood places.

Community Resource Project will implement CA 3 - Energy Efficient, Healthy and Resilient Housing and Buildings: Install solar energy power with battery storage to support dis...

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66.616 - Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant Program

EPA Region 9: San Francisco [EPA - RO]

Sacramento, California United States

City-Wide

Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program (EPA-R-OEJECR-OCS-23-04)

Termination This project grant was reported as terminated by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in July 2025. See All
Amendment Since initial award the End Date has been shortened from 10/31/27 to 05/01/25.