Business-Resource-Guide

California Capital Access Program (CalCAP) Through a form of loan portfolio insurance, the California Capital Access Program (CalCAP or Program) encourages banks and other financial institutions to make loans to small businesses that have difficulty obtaining financing. Air Resources Board (ARB) On-Road Heavy-Duty Vehicle Air Quality Loan Program Loan insurance on a maximum of $1.5 million for the purposes of acquiring new trucks and buses, newer used trucks and buses, and retrofits. SmartWay aerodynamic technologies can be financed as well. For more information on ARB, visit: www.treasurer.ca.gov/cpcfa/calcap/arb. Tax-Exempt Bond Financing Program The Pollution Control Tax-Exempt Bond Financing Program provides California businesses with tax-exempt bond financing for the acquisition, construction, or installation of qualified pollution control, waste disposal, waste recovery facilities and the acquisition and installation of new equipment. For more information on the Tax-Exempt Bond Financing Program, visit: http://www.treasurer.ca.gov/ cpcfa/bondfinancing.asp. Industrial Development Bond Financing Provides small to medium-sized manufacturers money for land purchases, building construction, facility expansion, new production equipment acquisition, and solar and energy conservation retrofits. Benefits of IDB financing include below market interest rates, and long-term financing. https://ibank.ca.gov/bonds/industrial-development bonds. Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) This program provides loans to help developers, businesses, schools, and local governments clean-up and redevelop brownfields. For more information on CalCAP, visit: www.treasurer.ca.gov/cpcfa/calcap.

Cleanup Loans and Environmental Assistance to Neighborhoods Loan (CLEAN) This program provides low-interest rate loans to finance environmental assessments and hazardous waste cleanup activities of designated Brownfields and underutilized urban properties. For more CLEAN information visit: https://dtsc.ca.gov/clean-and-iscp-programs/

STATE GRANTS California Grants Portal

The California Grants Portal hosts all new state administered grant and loan opportunities offered on a competitive or first-come basis.

For more information visit: https://www.grants.ca.gov/ . CalRecycle Grant Programs

The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) offers funding opportunities authorized by legislation to assist public and private entities in the safe management of the waste stream. https://calrecycle.ca.gov/recycle/schools/fund ing/ Carl Moyer Grant Program This grant program provides incentive funds to private companies and public agencies to purchase cleaner-than-required engines, equipment, and emission reduction technologies. Clean Transportation Program This program provides funding to support innovation and accelerate the development and deployment of advanced transportation and fuel technologies. https://www.energy.ca.gov/programs-and-topics/ programs/clean-transportation-program Climate Investments (CCI) https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/carl-moyer-program-apply

https://dtsc.ca.gov/revolving-loan-fund-rlf-program/

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