among other uses. The Million Who Dare to Care Program In August 2007, the CFSCI announced the Million Who Dare to Care Program. The announcement said: "Join "The Million Who Dare to Care" program of the California Fire Safe Council to help raise funds to provide services to homeowners and local Fire Safe Councils for fuels reduction around homes and in our communities." The flyer stated "Your gift of just one dollar means the California Fire Safe Council can help homeowners prepare ahead of time for a wildfire." Thus the program was publicly positioned as a funding source for community fire safe projects. However, internally the CFSCI Board of Directors appears to have considered the funds as being for its use as a source of unrestricted funds. The minutes from the August 2, 2007 Board meeting read: "Dr. Horne [the CFSCI Treasurer] asked the Board to recognize the efforts of Ms. Rightmyer in conceiving of and implementing the "Million Who Dare to Care" fundraising program. ... Ms. Rightmyer ... commented that these are unrestricted funds..." As of September 2011 there has been no public accounting of how much money was raised or how these funds were used. Attempts to acquire state funding for the Grants Clearinghouse While local units of CAL FIRE, which is a State agency, often provide "in-kind" matches for federal grants obtained by their local fire safe councils, the State of California as of May 2018 has yet to supply a formal funding stream through the Grants Clearinghouse for community fire safe projects, such as is provided by Federal agencies. See also Fire safe councils Fire Safe California Grants Clearinghouse References External links California Fire Safe Council CAL FIRE also called CDF or California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection preventwildfireca.org (formerly known as the California Fire Alliance) Charities based in California Fire protection organizations Wildfires in California