Aggie Square Community Fund

by Cee Nga Kao
December 03, 2025

Aggie Square Community Fund 2025-26 Application

Aggie Square is built on partnership — between UC Davis, Wexford Science & Technology, and the City of Sacramento — to make sure innovation and opportunity grow together. The Aggie Square Community Fund invests in projects that strengthen nearby communities through creativity, collaboration, and shared prosperity. Each year, a portion of tenant rent at Aggie Square goes directly into the fund to support local initiatives that build skills, inspire youth, lift entrepreneurs, and make our neighborhoods vibrant and connected.

The fund focuses on four key areas:

Youth Opportunities – Expanding access to learning, leadership, and enrichment.
Workforce Development – Preparing residents for quality jobs, particularly in health, science, and innovation.
Entrepreneurial Support – Helping local innovators and small businesses grow.
Public Art & Placemaking – Creating spaces and experiences that reflect community pride.

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Applications Now Closed

Grant awardees will be announced at the next community engagement meeting on April 7, 2026. Register here.

Grant Tiers

Grants range from $5,000–$50,000 and are open to nonprofits, artists, and community partners working within Aggie Square neighborhoods.

Spark Grants: $5,000–$10,000 for early-stage ideas or pilot projects.
Impact Grants: $10,000–$50,000 for established programs or collaborations with measurable outcomes.

Funding Cycle

Applications open: December 15, 2025 — $150,000 total available
Application deadline: February 15, 2026
Grants awarded: April 2026

How to Apply

If you’re a neighborhood group, nonprofit, educator, artist, or entrepreneur with a vision to strengthen your community, we invite you to APPLY HERE. If selected, you will need to submit a FORM W-9, a U.S. tax document used to provide your taxpayer identification information to businesses or organizations that need it for reporting payments to the IRS.

About the Aggie Square Community Partnership (ASCP)

The ASCP works together to establish giving priorities and the grant making process. There are 11 assigned spots and currently 10 members (see roster below):

Six community members: One each from five Neighborhood Associations near Aggie Square and one youth member to be selected by participating neighborhood association representatives.
Five institutional members: UC Davis, UC Davis Health, Wexford, Aggie Square private industry tenants and an education representative.
Each member will initially serve a three-year term as a founding member of the ASCP. This will ensure consistency during the early formation of the ASCP. The ASCP, as a body, can establish a staggered timeframe for terms if it wishes to avoid wholesale membership change occurring at term expiration.
A general practice is for members of the ASCP to be selected via some type of public or organizational process. For example, a Neighborhood Organization might solicit interest from among its membership and then hold an election (either by its membership or by its board) to determine who will fill the seat on the ASCP. An institutional organization might select a member of its board or senior leadership to serve on the ASCP as its representative.
If the selected representative’s involvement with the ASCP member organization changes (e.g. they move out of the neighborhood or leave the organization), the ASCP member organization can select a replacement.
The ASCP representative selection should be documented in organizational minutes or email correspondence.
ASCP meetings began in August 2024. The group has met 7 times to select a youth member, establish grant priority areas, develop application materials and outreach plans.

Aggie Square Community Partnership Roster

Community Members

Colonial Heights Neighborhood Association
Julia Robinson

Elmhurst Neighborhood Association
Francesca Reitano

Oak Park Neighborhood Association
Petra Vega

South Oak Park Community Association
Michael Blair

Tahoe Park Neighborhood Association
Christina Lokke

Youth Member
Joseph Luna

Institutional Members

Wexford Science & Technology
Monique Brown, Director, Knowledge Community

Los Rios Community College District
Albert Garcia, President, Sacramento City College

UC Davis
Mabel Salon, Chief Government and Community Relations Officer

UC Davis Health
Ellen Brown, Director, Community Integration

Aggie Square Private Industry Tenants
TBD

Primary Category

Community Engagement

Secondary Categories

University Engagement