This competitive grant program will provide funding to create, improve, or expand community composting sites to increase composting of organics to change organic waste to a usable community resource.
This grant cycle will take a regional approach. CalRecycle determined portion of funding per region by considering population, income, and environmental factors to more effectively reach people who would benefit the most throughout the state.
For more information, go to Notice of Funds Available: Community Composting for Green Spaces Grant Program (FY 2021–22) (https://calrecycle.ca.gov/climate/grantsloans/communitycomposting/fy202122/)
Video of the Soil Stewardship Training funded by the first cycle of the Community Composting for Green Spaces Grant Program is available online on the YouTube channel of the California Alliance for Community Composting (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPtKoA5GNsI&list=PLY6OF4oXCBS87V3HVDn_PrNH_hCJ6CKIc&index=1I)