SDG and E invests close to $1 million a year in shareholder-funded grants to nonprofit organizations whose programs support emergency preparedness and safety, with an emphasis on under-resourced communities. It also supports the Fire Safe Council network through the Regional Fire Foundation in card 42.
A special district is not an eligible applicant, which is another reason the Vista Fire Safe Council nonprofit status matters.
A more direct opportunity sits alongside the grant program. The CWPP calls for working with SDG and E to identify and remove hazard trees that are currently or potentially threatening power lines. That is utility vegetation management, which the utility funds from its own wildfire mitigation budget rather than through a grant competition. The District can simply ask, and should, because it costs nothing to ask and the work is on the adopted plan.