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Transformative Climate Communities

The County of Monterey Sustainability Program has been awarded a grant from the State of California’s Strategic Growth Council to implement a two-year community engagement process in the Pajaro Valley (Watsonville, Pajaro, and unincorporated Santa Cruz County) via a $300,000 Transformative Climate Communities (TCC) Planning Grant. 

 

The Transformative Climate Communities (TCC) Program empowers the communities most impacted by pollution to choose their own goals, strategies, and projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution.

Regeneración is the local convener for the community engagement activities while the University of California, Santa Cruz’s Sustainability Office is leading the facilitation of community engagement activities.

Learn more about Transformative Climate Communities projects across California

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Community Climate Coalition
Team

The Transformative Climate Communities Planning Grant will support community-led planning activities where community leaders and residents will engage in a planning process to define their needs, research solutions, and decide how to best meet the needs of their community.

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meet the team

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"The TCC planning grant represents a vital opportunity for community members to select local climate solutions that benefit those who are on the frontlines of climate impacts. We’re very optimistic about the

prospect of bringing in tens of millions in state and federal funding to the Pajaro Valley to implement the ideas chosen by our community."

Nancy Faulstich,

Executive Director of Regeneración

The planning area was identified by local leaders as an immigrant frontline community of color that is low income, linguistically isolated, and likely to bear disproportionate impacts of climate change, but also includes opportunities for redevelopment and reinvestment along the Pajaro River levee and the Watsonville Junction.

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TESTIMONIALS

The Transformative Climate Communities Planning Grant will support community-led planning activities where community leaders and residents will engage in a planning process to define their needs, research solutions, and decide how to best meet the needs of their community.

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KSBW Action News 8,
August 25, 2023

State grant goes to Pajaro Valley to help communities combat climate issues. Click here to learn more.

Santa Cruz Sentinel, September 7, 2023

Regeneracion launches climate resiliency projects in Pajaro Valley. Click here to read more.

Formation of our Community Climate Coalition

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The Transformative Climate Communities Planning Grant will support community-led planning activities in the Pajaro Valley where community leaders and residents will engage in a planning process to define the communities needsir needs, research solutions, and decide how to best meet the needs of their community through engagement with the Pajaro Valley residents that they live near, serve, and work with. 


We’ve brought together a Community Climate Coalition made up of Pajaro Valley Residents and Community Based Organization Leaders to participate in a two-year planning process facilitated by the Office of Sustainability at UC Santa Cruz, the Sustainability Program at the County of Monterey and Regeneración.

Pictures and footage from committee meetings and larger community meetings

The Pajaro Valley TCC Planning Project is supported by California Strategic Growth Council’s Transformative Climate Communities Program strengthening the economy, and improving public health and the environment – particularly in disadvantaged communities.

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Contact

Eloy Ortiz

Special Projects Manager

eloy@regenerationpajarovalley.org

Office phone: 831-288-7755