Grants

CARE’s California Carpet Stewardship Program provides grant funding to establish, increase, improve and enhance California-generated post‑consumer carpet (PCC) collection, recycling, and utilization in recycled-content product manufacturing.

Please email Abbie Beane, grants administrator, if you wish to be placed on the list to receive future grant program notices.

On this page:

Current Grant Cycles
Forms for Grant Recipients
Grant Case Studies
FAQs – Questions & Answers
Awardees

Current Grant Cycles

Capital Improvement Grants

The Capital Improvement Grant Program provides funding for capital improvements that will establish, increase, improve and enhance additional California generated post‑consumer carpet (PCC) reuse, recycling and/or utilization of recycled content product manufacturing.

The grants program is open to public and private businesses, and California-based operations will receive first consideration.

Awards are limited to $500,000 for capital improvements that will establish, increase, improve and enhance additional California-generated post‑consumer carpet (PCC) recycling and/or utilization of recycled content product manufacturing.

Email CARE to be alerted when the next grant round opens.

Product Testing Grant Cycle 4B

Product Testing Grant Cycle 4B will support product testing, research and development, and similar market development activities to improve and enhance post‑consumer carpet (PCC) recycling and utilization of recycled content product manufacturing. Cycle 4B awards are limited to $50,000 for activities that will focus on product testing, research and development and similar market development activities to improve and enhance PCC recycling and utilization of recycled-content product manufacturing. Applications are due by June 30, 2021 at 5 pm PDT.

Assistance may include, but is not limited to, the following projects:

Investigating the use of California-generated PCC material to manufacture established products that do not currently use recycled post-consumer carpet material (i.e. feedstock conversion).
Testing and/or certifying new or reformulated products containing California-generated PCC material.
Feasibility and/or pilot project studies on potential new uses of California PCC material.

Cycle 4B Product Testing Grant Solicitation

Cycle 4B Application Form (coming May 1)

Cycle 4B Budget Template

Micro Grants for Collection/Reuse Cycle 4M

The purpose of the Micro Grants Program for Collection/Reuse – Cycle 4M is to promote the additional collection and reuse of California post-consumer carpet (PCC). The definition of “additional” under this program is PCC that was previously sent to landfill, alternative daily cover, waste-to-energy, kiln or used for carpet-as-alternative-fuel. Cycle 4M funds will be awarded for the infrastructure projects and/or purchase of equipment that supports the operational logistics of properly collecting and/or reusing California PCC under a new or established program.

$100,000 is funded for Cycle 4M (2021/22) Micro Grants Program for Collection/Reuse. Maximum grant awards for Cycle 4M will be limited to $15,000 for each grant awarded under this Program.

Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a continuous basis through 2021. Grantees must achieve project completion by December 31, 2022, or within one year of the project’s Notice to Proceed, whichever comes first. See the Solicitation below for complete details on eligibility, requirements and schedule:

Cycle 4M Micro Grant Solicitation

Cycle 4M Micro Grant Application Form

CARE Micro Grant Budget Template