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Catholic Charities: food pantry with customers
$ 85,000 grant
2009-10
Installation of solar panels on the agency's food pantry

This grant funded the installation of photovoltaic solar panels on the roof of CCSB’s Haley Street food pantry, which provides supplemental food for 600 people a week.  The solar panels provided a yearly utility cost savings that was leveraged into meeting an increasing demand for food for those in need -- a demand estimated to rise by 35% by 2010. Additionally, there was a beneficial environmental effect. The installation served as a model for other non-profits operating in the city center and allowed the ability of CCSB to be an energy back-up to power emergency generators for the SB County Disaster Preparedness & Recovery Project.