SMUD Shine Program Award
Funding Amount
$63,000
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Annual
- Tracked since
- April 2026
Source: the cycle recorded on this listing. Confirm dates with the funder.
Overview
Geographic Scope: Sacramento County, California (SMUD service area)
Announcement Date: June 5, 2025
Focus Areas:
- Clean energy workforce development
- Justice-impacted young adult employment support
- Workforce transition and readiness
- Clean energy STEM education
- Environmental justice and equity
- Zero carbon workforce development
- Youth training and job readiness for under-resourced communities
Target Population:
- Justice-impacted young adults
- Under-resourced community members
- EDD Opportunity Young Adult (OYA) Career Pathway Program participants (100+ participants)
Program Components:
- Stipends for workforce readiness and training
- Career coaching
- Supportive services
- Economic barrier reduction for workforce reentry
Partner Organizations:
- NextGen Policy (grant recipient)
- Clover Agency (strategic partner)
Background: SMUD is the nation's sixth-largest, community-owned, not-for-profit electric service provider serving Sacramento County for over 75 years. The Shine program supports nonprofits that engage key communities in transitioning to a clean energy future. Research from North Carolina State University shows that within the first year of release, about 37% of formerly incarcerated individuals find employment nationally.
What Nextgen Climate America Inc actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 6
- Total given
- $1.01M
- Median grant
- $129K
- Range
- $44K–$507K
- By dollars: California 65%, District of Columbia 20%, North Carolina 16%. Top recipient cities: Washington, DC; San Francisco, CA; Raleigh, NC.
- 100% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
Example grants
Nextgen Education Fund · San Francisco, CA
Support of c3-compliant program operations
$507K
Climate Changemakers · Raleigh, NC
Support of c3-compliant program operations
$160K
The Next 50 Action · Washington, DC
Support of c3-compliant program operations
$155K
Student Debt Crisis Center (SDCC) · Sherman Oaks, CA
General support work - higher education
$104K
Shared Ascent Fund · Sacramento, CA
General support work - higher education
$44K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Workforce development
- Released prisoners
- Solar
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