2024-212-E-AMS-EMPOWERment-Solar on Peach

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Project Benefits: Club Nova works with individuals living with serious mental illness. We anticipate at least 100 members will directly benefit from our project. Our project includes minimizing the greenhouse gas emissions and minimizing our carbon footprint through accelerating and expanding the following: Plant based diet, food waste reduction plan, composting, growing our own vegetables and herbs, increasing local purchasing, recycling, utilizing reusable products/items (i.e. cloth napkins and limiting one time use items), and capturing and reusing rainwater. Our members will benefit from a healthier, sustainable diet and from being part of a larger focus to make a significant, positive impact on climate change. Reviewer Comments: We are pleased to support an organization that supports an underserved population within our County. We also love that this population will have a voice in the voting and execution of this project. Grant Dollars Requested Per Metric Ton of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduced During Project Lifetime: $116 #8 Ranked Project – Eco‐Institute at Sanctuary Farm Applicant (Collaborators): N/A Funding Requested: $50,800 Recommended Funding Level: $0 Total Score (Out of 26 pts): 17 Project Description: Funds will be used to expand the existing Community Garden Cooperative and to create a new Community Garden Training Program by providing scholarships for residents from low‐income households and/or marginalized communities. Funds will also be used to hire Orange County Farmers and Gardeners as guest teachers. Project Benefits: Participants learn to grow organic food while engaging in intergenerational conversations about climate resilience. Climate resilient gardening includes practices like increasing native plant diversity, composting household food waste, improving soil health, growing heat tolerant vegetable crops, and using stormwater management practices. Participants are invited to bring their household compost, which serves as fertilizer for the garden. We share in the labor and share in the harvest. Participants go home with a basket full of fresh, healthy garden produce each week. This reduces their dependence on the industrial food system. Reviewer Comments: Recommended not funding due to limited public benefit and uncertainty due to community being served. Suggest that the organization seek other philanthropic funding sources. Grant Dollars Requested Per Metric Ton of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduced During Project Lifetime: $not estimated #9 Ranked Project – The ArtsCenter Applicant (Collaborators): N/A Funding Requested: $41,729 Recommended Funding Level: $0 Total Score (Out of 26 pts): 17 Project Description: At our new home, we have an enclosed garden space that we will turn into an Outdoor Eco‐ Classroom. This outdoor learning center will educate patrons of all ages on our rooftop solar system as well as other eco‐ friendly projects they can incorporate into their lives from outdoor hydroponics to garden art created using recycled materials. The learning center of this classroom will be Haven, a solar powered shelter in the sun with 16 places to charge up, explore, create and learn. Haven is made by the NC based company, Spotlight Solar. The structure was designed in Raleigh and is manufactured in Sanford, NC. Project Benefits: This project will help us educate the community about our solar project made possible through previous funding The ArtsCenter received last year through the Orange County Community Climate Action Grant Program. This shelter will offer our community a solar workspace, a solar classroom and a solar charging station 10 DocuSign Envelope ID: EB7B9CC8-B910-4965-AF93-0969E3E03E78