The Tribal Housing and Capacity Building Initiative (THCBI) is SGC's newest initiative that funds two grant programs that are exclusively available to California Native American Tribes and Tribal entities. THCBI Programs include:
- Tribal Capacity Building Program: The Tribal Capacity Building Program provides funding and technical assistance to California Native American Tribes, enhancing staff capacity to advance Tribes’ climate- and housing-related work. The program funds staff salaries and activities such as planning, securing funding for, and implementing housing projects and related efforts to advance climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience. The individual award amount is between $350,000 and $420,000, distributed over a three-year grant term. The program has a total of $5 million in funding.
- Tribal Housing Pre-Development Fund: The Tribal Housing Pre-Development Fund is a grant opportunity that funds activities related to affordable housing development, including planning, infrastructure, construction, site preparation, and other pre-development activities. The goal of the fund is to increase preparedness to build housing and access other state-funded, affordable housing programs. The individual award amount is up to $3 million. The program has a total of $20 million in funding. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. If funds are not expended, SGC will announce a second application deadline.
Applications for both programs are now open as of May 11, 2026, and will close on Aug. 11, 2026. Applicants can apply to one or both programs below:
Before you begin, a few items to keep in mind:
- Once you create a Submittable account to begin an application, you can share log-in credentials with others to work on the application or add Collaborators (click the "Manage Collaborators" link in the top right corner) to work on the same application with their own credentials. While Collaborators can work on the application form, only the primary user who began the form can submit the application.
- Applicants should carefully read the Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) and Tribal Capacity Building Program Round 2 Guidelines prior to starting the Application. Applications are scored using the scoring criteria provided in the Guidelines (see Section III. Preparing and Submitting an Application – D. Application Components and Scoring Criteria).
- Applicants are encouraged to work on the narrative responses in the Application Template, a word document version of the application, to ensure all work is saved to your desktop, and then transfer completed answers to this online application. If you choose to work directly from this online application, we recommend saving your work frequently to avoid losing progress if the application is timed out due to inactivity. Submittable allows you to save progress along the way, so you can begin and come back to the application over time.
- Applications must be submitted via Submittable only by 5 p.m. PT on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. No late applications or application revisions will be accepted after the application submittal deadline. No hard copies, facsimiles, electronic transmissions via email, hand-delivered copies, or any other method of submitting complete applications will be accepted.
- If you have questions about Submittable, please contact: https://submittable1.my.site.com/submittablehelp/s/14873512
Before you begin, a few items to keep in mind:
- Once you create a Submittable account to begin an application, you can share log-in credentials with others to work on the application or add Collaborators (click the "Manage Collaborators" link in the top right corner) to work on the same application with their own credentials. While Collaborators can work on the application form, only the primary user who began the form can submit the application.
- Applicants should carefully read the Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) and Tribal Housing Pre-Development Fund Guidelines prior to starting the Application. Applications are scored using the scoring criteria provided in the Guidelines (see Section 3.4: Application Scoring Criteria). These documents can be found at: https://sgc.ca.gov/grant-programs/tribalpd/
- Applicants are encouraged to work on the narrative responses in the Application Template, a word document version of the application, and then transfer completed answers to this online application. Doing so will ensure all work is saved to your desktop. If you choose to work directly from this online application, we recommend saving your work frequently to avoid losing progress if the application is timed out due to inactivity. Submittable allows you to save progress along the way, so you can begin and come back to the application over time.
- Applications must be submitted via Submittable only by 5 p.m. PT on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. No late applications or application revisions will be accepted after the application submittal deadline. No hard copies, facsimiles, electronic transmissions via email, hand-delivered copies, or any other method of submitting complete applications will be accepted.
- If you have questions about Submittable, please contact: https://submittable1.my.site.com/submittablehelp/s/14873512