Grant Guidelines and Application

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Prior to applying for a grant, which must be submitted online, applicants should review the complete grant guidelines and contact their local PG&E Representative.

Application Deadline: You must apply online no later than 5 p.m. on Friday, August 17, 2007. Please submit to PG&E only a fully-completed application. We cannot review incomplete applications.

You will receive confirmation by e-mail of the receipt of your proposal within two business days of receipt by PG&E. If you do not receive confirmation of receipt within two business days, please contact your local PG&E economic development and/or public affairs representative immediately. Results are scheduled to be announced in early October.

PG&E will reject any proposals that are not submitted online or are submitted after the deadline.

Online Grant Application

Please print a copy of the economic development online grant application before you apply so that you can prepare whatever information you may need prior to actually completing it online. If you are applying for a PG&E Local Economic Development Grants program application, make sure that you are filling out the correct application. PG&E also has the ongoing Charitable Contributions program application.

For questions about completing the application, please contact Doug Carrillo, Charitable Contributions Grants Administrator, at charitablecontributions@pge.com.

For questions about the Local Economic Development Grants Program process, please contact your local PG&E representative.

PG&E Representative

PG&E Area and Counties	PG&E Representative	Contact Information
Area 1:   • San Francisco   • San Mateo	Roxanne Cruz Kathy Lavezzo	RECT@pge.com (415) 972-5201 KOL1@pge.com (650) 598-7267
Area 2:   • Alameda   • Contra Costa	Michele Williams Wanda Braddy	MAWD@pge.com (510) 437-2555 wmb2@pge.com (925) 674-4528
Area 3: • San Benito   • Santa Clara   • Santa Cruz   • Monterey	Lisa Doctolero (all Area 3 Counties) Jerry Hutchison (Santa Clara County) Jose Rios (Santa Cruz, San Benito and Monterey Counties)	LDD0@pge.com (408) 282-7159 JAHo@pge.com (408) 282-4345 JLR0@pge.com (831) 784-3458
Area 4:   • Fresno   • Kern   • Kings   • San Bernardino   • San Luis Obispo   • Santa Barbara	Julia Childs Cam Maloy (Fresno, Kings, Tulare) Mark Cunningham (Kern, San Bernardino) Yolanda Bernasconi Dennis Kunkel (San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara)	J2HX@pge.com (559) 263-5583 cam7@pge.com (559) 263-5583 maca@pge.com (661) 321-4405 YMB3@pge.com (805) 595-6425 DJK6@pge.com (805) 595-6416
Area 5:   • Alpine   • Amador   • Calaveras   • Madera   • Mariposa   • Merced   • San Joaquin   • Stanislaus   • Tuolumne	Sherrie Gray Candace Briskey (Stanislaus) Bob Carlson (Madera) Lane Puckett (Merced) Phil Pennino (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Mariposa, San Joaquin, Tuolumne)	SSG9@pge.com (209) 942-1726 CGC4@pge.com (209) 847-6616 rcc7@pge.com (559) 675-2210 LKP1@pge.com (209) 866-6438 PAP5@pge.com (209) 842-1730
Area 6:   • Butte   • Colusa   • El Dorado   • Glenn   • Lassen   • Modoc   • Nevada   • Placer   • Plumas   • Sacramento   • Shasta   • Sierra   • Siskiyou   • Solano (Eastern)   • Sutter   • Tehama   • Yolo   • Yuba	Dolly Hazel Mary Post (Cordelia/Fairfield, Eastern Solano County, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, Sierra, Yolo) Mike Travis (Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Plumas, Siskiyou, Shasta, Sutter, Tehama, Yuba)	DDG6@pge.com (916) 408-3319 map3@pge.com (916) 386-5006 mht1@pge.com (530)896-4224
Area 7:   • Humboldt   • Lake   • Marin   • Mendocino   • Napa   • Solano (Western)   • Sonoma	Dolly Hazel Craig Kennedy (Sonoma) Ivan Marruffo (Humboldt) Jim Salomone (Lake, Mendocino) Joe Horak (Marin, Napa) Carol Foreman (Benicia, Vallejo, Western Solano County)	DDG6@pge.com (916) 408-3319 cmk5@pge.com (707) 577-7097 ixm2@pge.com (707) 445-5631 jxs8@pge.com (707) 579-6437 jphp@pge.com (707) 577-7130 caf2@pge.com (707) 577-7128

Grant Guidelines

Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Local Economic Development Grants Program provides support only to 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations and selected government programs, almost exclusively within our northern and central California service area. However, only grant applications for projects located in the utility's service area will be considered.

The most successful grant applications are those that:

1. Address a demonstrated community need
2. Link a nonprofit or government program to PG&E's business goals and employee presence in the community
3. Can provide the grantee and the utility with recognition in the community
   PG&E will fund two types of local economic development grants:

1) Economic Development Grants: These are grants that promote private sector investment to enhance the community’s fundamental economic strength the standard of living of all the people who live and work there. These grants are designed to increase the number of jobs in established businesses that support the local economy. The basic types of Economic Development grants are:

• Business Retention: to retain existing primary businesses and jobs
• Business Attraction: to attract new primary businesses and jobs
  
• Business Development: to encourage the growth of new businesses and jobs

Some examples of successful Economic Development grant applications are:

• A business retention outreach program for one-on-one interviews with 50 top local businesses to identify local expansion opportunities
• Construction of a web-based buyer/supplier connector and publishing a local business resource guide for local suppliers, manufacturers and business services
• A "cluster study" of businesses that support a key local industry to identify possible supply partnerships

2) Community Development Grants: These are grants that make a community a better place to live and work by promoting economic opportunity and self-sufficiency programs for individual residents. In general, they address a specific economic problem within the community, and may be targeted geographically.

Approaches to local Community Development include:

• Workforce Training: Assist individuals in developing new or advanced skills for the workplace
• Access to Jobs: Match individuals who are seeking jobs with businesses that need qualified applicants
• Access to Capital: Assisting business owners find new sources of capital
• Creation of a downtown development strategy to strengthen and expand retail sales
• Training for disadvantaged and underserved youth in the construction trades and placement in full-time employment
• Neighborhood commercial district revitalization

Application Deadline: The 2007 Local Economic Development Grants program is accepting applications from June 26 through 5 p.m. on August 17, 2007. Grantees will be announced in early October.

Eligibility: To be eligible for a contribution, a grantee must hold current tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or be a unit of government (including a public school), and the project area must be located in a community that PG&E serves with either gas or electricity, or both.

Underserved Emphasis: Whenever feasible, we target a large portion of our grants for projects or organizations that assist underserved communities. In general, this includes people with low incomes, people of color, seniors, the disabled, and the LGBT community. Our goal is that 65 percent of our total grantmaking dollars be used to assist underserved communities.

In addition, we make grants for either general or specific programs so that our community partners can receive the greatest possible flexibility in meeting the challenges they face daily.

Grant Size: Grants will range from $2,500 to $10,000. Please note that not all successful grant requests will necessarily receive the full amount requested. Also, grantees from prior years are encouraged to apply for similar projects in 2007 to expand on the success of previous grants.

Decision-making Process: The Local Economic Development Grants Program committee (made up of PG&E's economic development and public affairs staff, along with an independent peer reviewer) reviews all applications.

Limitations on Funding: Non-Discrimination Practices—PG&E will not fund organizations that, in their by-laws, policies, or practice discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

Charitable Purposes: Grants may be used only for charitable purposes. They cannot be used to promote or oppose the election of any candidate for any office, or to personally benefit any elected official, or to promote or defeat any ballot measure.

Legal Compliance: By accepting a grant, the recipient confirms that it is and will remain during the term of any grant in compliance with all federal, state, and local laws, rules and regulations, including The Nonprofit Integrity Act (SB 1262; 2004).

Patriot Act Compliance: By accepting a grant, the recipient confirms that it is and will remain during the term of the grant in compliance with federal Executive Order 13224 (2001), the USA Patriot Act (2005), and the U.S. Department of Treasury Voluntary Anti-Terrorist Funding Guidelines (2006), and that it will not promote or engage in violence, terrorism, bigotry, or the destruction of any state, nor will it make subgrants to any entity that engages in these activities.

In addition, PG&E will not make contributions to support the following:

• Individuals
• Tickets for contests, raffles, or other activities with prizes
• Religious organizations (unless the request is specifically for a program offered to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis and without regard to the recipient's religious affiliation)
• Endowments
• Debt-reduction campaigns

PG&E's Charitable Contributions Program also provides grants in the following funding areas: environmental and energy sustainability, emergency preparedness, economic development, education, and emergency energy assistance.