2020 Grant Program Final Report

Summary: The Bay Area Council Foundation’s California Resilience Challenge was launched in December 2019 to help innovative and replicable projects in under-resourced communities compete for advanced planning and implementation grants from state, federal, and philanthropic programs by providing them with small, early stage planning grants to help these communities get a jumpstart on their projects. Four years later, the 2020 Challenge’s initial $2 million investment has been leveraged by grantees to raise an additional $34 million, including nearly $7 million for project implementation.