Grant Opportunity!

SANER is working to expand our reach and we are adding new members/followers every day. More and more people from other neighborhoods are reaching out to us asking about General Aviation noise and lead pollution above their homes here in Long Beach.
To more effectively reach impacted residents and assess their health, safety, and noise concerns, SANeR wants to launch an outreach project via direct mail.
In order to fund this effort, SANeR is looking at possible grant funding.


As it turns out, there is a grant opportunity right here in Long Beach funded by fines collected from Noise Ordinance violations! This grant, titled Airport Noise Ordinance Neighborhood Impact Fund is administered by the Long Beach Community Foundation who distribute the fine monies once a year.
A small committee has worked on the grant application which is due this week.


The Airport Noise Ordinance Neighborhood Impact Fund states the following purpose:



GRANT PURPOSE
The Airport Noise Ordinance Neighborhood Impact Fund was funded with fines paid by certain airlines that have violated flight path noise restrictions at the Long Beach Airport. These charitable dollars can be used to fund projects that improve or benefit residents under the flight paths who are most impacted.

The borders of the flight path (as noted on this map within the black area) are meant to serve as a guide to show the most impacted areas.

Examples of worthy projects include public area improvements that benefit the impacted residents, community gatherings, neighborhood festivals, and nonprofit programming benefiting residents within the flight path, just to name a few. The more people benefitting in an area under the flight path, the better. Projects that work to gather people together to encourage neighborliness are prioritized.

Past grantees can be found here. The Foundation only list grant recipients up to 2021 and we are looking forward to seeing their page updated.

We are just about ready to submit our application. Wish us luck!

In Airport related news, Long Beach Airport celebrated the reopening of its historic terminal building (read more here). Next time you are at LGB, give it a look!