Step 1 — Submit an Interest Form

You’re Invited!

Congratulations! You’ve received an invitation to consider this opportunity to apply for a $50,000 Connecting Hometowns Grant, funded by PG&E, that will be awarded in 2025 by Habitat for Humanity California to one Habitat affiliate in each of the five PG&E service regions:

NORTH COAST
NORTH VALLEY AND SIERRA
BAY AREA
SOUTH BAY AND CENTRAL COAST
CENTRAL VALLEY

Review Program + Eligibility Requirements

Can you host a team of at least 20 PG&E employee volunteers for an eligible activity during the month of June?

Do you agree to the program requirements and post-event reporting?

review requirements

Let Us Know You’re Interested

If you’d like to move forward, please submit an interest form by Wednesday, March 26, 2025.

Submitting an interest form does NOT OBLIGATE your affiliate to submit a full application.

THE INTEREST SUBMISSION PERIOD HAS PASSED.

submit interest form

Step 2 — Apply

Invitation to Apply: Connecting Hometowns Grant

All affiliates who submitted an interest form will be contacted on March 28, 2025, regardless of whether they have been invited to continue in the competitive grant process.

Upon invitation, affiliates will be provided a code to access the application.

Remember, you are NOT obligated to submit an application even if you are invited.

review key grant dates

Submit an Application

If your affiliate is invited to apply for a Connecting Hometowns Grant and you wish to submit a proposal, prepare as much detail as you can about your Homeownership Month event and submit a complete application - due on April 14, 2025.

apply here

This grant application is password-protected. Please refer to your invitation email, dated 3/28/25, for the access code. Reach out to debbie@habitatca.org if you are having trouble.

Grant Awards + Memorandums of Understanding

Grant awards will be announced on April 23, 2025.

Habitat California will enter into a partnership with affiliate awardees via a Memorandum of Understanding.

This is the stage in the process where project details - location(s) and date(s) need to be finalized.

MOUs are due on May 2, 2025.

Attend Welcome Webinar

Habitat California will host a mandatory welcome webinar to go over grant and program details with awardees and to answer any questions you may have.

The date of this meeting is TBD at this time.

Step 3 — Plan and Host Your Connecting Hometowns Event During National Homeownership Month - June, 2025

Plan Your Activities

Coordinate the details of your Connecting Hometowns volunteer event:

  • activity details

  • material requirements

  • safety requirements

  • staffing needs

  • secure any welcome speakers and craft any messages planned

  • schedule/run of show

  • location and project prep

  • order lunch for volunteers

  • make sure you’ve received your event branding package from Habitat CA

Coordinate Volunteers

PG&E will be the lead on recruitment of their employee volunteers. Affiliates will be connected with the PG&E volunteer manager to provide:

  • affiliate volunteer waivers

  • event date, location, activity, and other details via a survey from PG&E designed to help them populate their internal volunteer registration portal

Event Promotion + Media Engagement

Habitat California and PG&E will provide each affiliate awardee a Connecting Hometowns event branding package with the following:

  • 25 volunteer t-shirts

  • 1 event banner

And a promotional toolkit with the following:

  • template press release/media advisory

  • cut and paste social media copy and graphics

  • newsletter/website content

Your affiliate will be provided a regional PG&E media relations contact to work with you on press engagement.

  • Each awardee affiliate is encouraged to engage their local media market (with PG&E support) and may host a regional PG&E executive.

  • One awardee affiliate will be selected to host a campaign kickoff media event that will include broader media engagement and inclusion of a PG&E executive.

Hold Your Event(s)

You’re ready! Let’s do this!

Step 4 — Post-Event Reporting + Grant Distribution

Brief Impact Report

We will require affiliates to fill out a brief impact report form upon completion of their event(s).

Event Photos/Video

Affiliates are required to submit 7-10 hi-resolution, quality, branded photos of PG&E volunteers engaging at their event(s).

Promotional Examples

Affiliates will be asked to provide 2-3 examples of promotional publications - i.e. social media posts, press, newsletter articles.

Grant Distribution

Grant monies will be distributed via EFT to affiliates according to this schedule:

  • $25,000 upon execution of MOU (on or around May 2, 2025)

  • $25,000 upon completion of required post-event reporting