Wildfire Community Preparedness Day is an annual campaign that encourages people to come together on a single day to take action to reduce their wildfire risk. On May 2nd this year communities and organizations across the county will engage in a huge variety of activities including community chipper days, potlucks and discussions about reducing fire risk, planning phone trees and wildfire notification systems for your community, building go kits, etc.
To support Wildfire Preparedness Day NFPA and State Farm are offering $500 grants to fund any sort of wildfire risk reduction or preparedness activities.
Check the link below for information about applying. On the NFPA website, there are tips about how to apply and examples of past projects that have succeeded.
Applications are due on February 29th.
Wildfire Community Preparedness Day and grant application page at NFPA .
Scroll partway down the page to find the application. The official rules for the grant contest can be found here.
If you’d like help reviewing your application or coming up with ideas, contact Sam or Porfirio. Their contact info is on the Ambassador toolkit page.
Also, check out our Fireshed ambassador page for more information on planning community wildfire action for your community:
http://www.santafefireshed.org/ambassador/
Here are two resources from our ambassador toolkit with ideas for community events: