Livermore College, Non-Profit Receive A Total Of $2M In Federal Funds

LIVERMORE, CA — Rep. Eric Swalwell announced a total of $2 million in federal funds for Livermore organizations and initiatives, as well as $2.1 million more for other Tri-Valley projects.

Chabot-Las Positas Community College District’s East Bay College Agile Network and Goodness Village Livermore’s Affordable Housing Project will receive $1 million each in 2023.

The East Bay College Agile Network is a partnership between Chabot-Las Positas and Cal State East Bay that aims to increase certificate and degree attainment programs for students of Las Positas College, Chabot College, and CSU East Bay. The research-based initiative aims to streamline degree advising processes, and identify and mitigate systems that reduce barriers to college completion.

Goodness Village is a master-planned 28-unit Tiny Home community for the chronically unhoused. The program, a partnership between CrossWinds Church and the City of Livermore, hopes to provide “a safe and affordable living space with meaningful life activity and an opportunity to earn a dignified income, so that program participants - our neighbors - are contributing members to the greater Tri-Valley community.”

More than $15 million was allocated to 15 local projects in District 15. Other projects receiving funding include:

• $2,000,000 for the City of Pleasanton’s PFAS Treatment and Well Rehabilitation Project
• $100,000 for Dublin Chamber of Commerce’s Emerging Business Community Outreach Program
• $2,150,000 for Union Sanitary District’s Enhanced Treatment and Site Upgrade Campus Solar Project
• $2,000,000 for One Nation Dream Maker’s Last Mile Delivery Program
• $1,400,000 for the Alameda County ALL IN Eats Food Hub
• $1,000,000 for East Bay Community Energy’s Municipal Critical Facility Resilience Project
• $1,000,000 for Habitat for Humanity East Bay/Silicon Valley’s Sequoia Grove Affordable Housing Project
• $1,000,000 for the Construction Trade Workforce Initiative’s Building Construction Pre-Apprenticeship Program
• $709,000 for the City of Hayward’s Hayward Evaluation and Response Teams (HEART) Program
• $700,000 for Bay Area Community Health’s Refugee Mobile Health Clinics
• $477,0000 for East Bay Agency for Children’s Post-Covid Student and Teacher Recovery and Resilience Building Program
• $285,000 for Hayward/ South Alameda County NAACP’s Black Integrated Community Engagement Program
• $250,000 for the Muslim Community Center’s Rental Assistance Program

“I am thrilled to see this funding for Community Projects headed to California’s Fifteenth Congressional District,” Swalwell said in a statement. “Whether it’s supporting affordable housing in Hayward, mitigating food insecurity in Livermore, or increasing student support programs at local community colleges, funding for these projects will help meet the needs of our communities. These project requests came directly from local governments and nonprofits in our community and I look forward to seeing their impact in the months and years to come.”