Today, the California Strategic Growth Council (SGC) released an application survey for the BOOST Program, a state-wide program tailored to help California cities and towns advance their climate action, resilience, and equity objectives.
This technical assistance program supports under-resourced cities and towns in building capacity, optimizing existing resources, strengthening community partnerships, and transforming their approach to address and fund climate activities. The 2021 BOOST Program is based on the BOOST Pilot Program which helped 10 cities and two regions build capacity to advance their climate and equity goals. The 18-month pilot was designed to provide flexible and responsive technical assistance to address the varying and evolving capacity challenges of local governments, while also sharing best practices and lessons learned to help inform state programs.
For this next round of the BOOST Program, SGC will select 5-7 disadvantaged and/or low-income communities to receive capacity building support in the form of trainings, partnership development, community engagement planning and implementation support, grant application assistance, and communications support. The application is open to all California cities and towns that are designated as low income and/or disadvantaged communities, with priority given to both rural and non-rural communities with demonstrated staff capacity challenges.
The application for the BOOST Program will be open until September 10, 2021.Finalists will be contacted for an interview before September 22, 2021. SGC aims to announce the selected communities on or before October 6, 2021.
Interested in Learning More?
BOOST Capacity Building Program Informational Webinar
Tuesday, August 17, 11am
Join SGC, ILG, and the BOOST Program team on August 17 for a webinar to meet the BOOST Program team, hear an overview of the program goals and timeline, and learn about the services available to BOOST Program participants. The webinar will also offer potential applicants an opportunity to ask questions of SGC staff and the BOOST Program team.
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