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Grant Program

The FOA Grant Program offers expertise in developing grants to secure funds for projects and programs across the FOA units.

The Grant Program serves staff subject matter experts to identify appropriate funding opportunities, find collaborative partners, craft successful grant proposals and navigate the review and approval process with the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. The Grant Program will work with Business Partners and Contracts and Grants Accounting to ensure your grant funds are set up, administered and reported in accordance with your award sponsor requirements.

If you have a project or program you would like to support with grant funds, or there’s a grant program you are interested in pursuing, contact the FOA Grant Program Director for a consultation.

Grants Awarded

Since 2023, the FOA Grant Program has submitted applications for more than $23 million and more than $6 million has been awarded to assist FOA units with accomplishing their goals.

Projects awarded grant funds:

  • Planning Russell Boulevard improvements: $520,000 planning grant awarded to Campus Planning, the Institute of Transportation Studies in partnership with the City of Davis for placemaking and safety improvements at Russell Boulevard crossings from A Street to Orchard Park Drive. 
  • Fleet EV Chargers: $39,000 awarded to Fleet for the installation of EV chargers.
  • Fleet Electrification: $100,000 awarded to offset costs for the purchase of electric vehicles. 
  • Police stress management and counseling: $56,734 awarded to the UC Davis Police Department for culturally-competent, critical incident stress management and counseling provided by first-responder trained clinicians over the next 2 years. 
  • READ Facility Enhancement Project: $4.7 million awarded to Facilities Management, led by Joseph Yonkoski.
  • Sustainable Communities Transportation Planning: $500,000 awarded to Yolo County in partnership with Campus Planning, campus project led by Lucas Griffith.
  • Regional Resiliency Planning: $598,420, awarded to Yolo County in partnership with Sustainability, campus project led by Carla Fresquez.
  • Addressing Bias & Bigotry Training: $4,000 awarded to Health 34, led by Lisa Mills, MD.
  • Zero Emission Vehicle Plan: $263,819, awarded to Yolo County in partnership with Safety Services and Sustainability, campus project led by Ramon Zavala. 

These funds supplement the $5.4 million grant for the Arboretum Waterway Improvement project, to improve stormwater management and support our Living Landscape Adaptation Plan. Others are waiting to hear back on multiple proposals to advance our sustainability goals 

There are ample and diverse state and Federal grant opportunities, especially for collaborative projects and capital investments. Looking ahead, more are coming thanks to California’s Prop 4 Bond Measure with $10 billion for parks, environment, energy and water projects.