Funding

“No administration in history has done more than President Joe Biden’s to ensure that all people—regardless of race, income, or ZIP code—live in healthy and safe communities. The Biden administration has advanced an unprecedented climate, clean energy, and environmental justice agenda to accelerate progress toward securing access to clean air and safe water, affordable and…

“Frontline communities are powerful agents of change in driving solutions, but traditionally very few resources have been allocated to them. We will not achieve the transformations required without also addressing systemic issues, oppressive policies, and the decades of underfunding that cause harm to the most vulnerable in society. Frontline communities often experience the first and…

“The Biden administration is making $2 billion available to community groups, states and tribes to clean up pollution and develop clean energy in disadvantaged communities in what officials called the largest-ever investment in environmental justice. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan called the grant program unprecedented and said it “has the promise to turn disadvantaged…

The new Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking (EJ TCGM) Program is a competition to select multiple pass-through entities to provide grant funds via sub-awards to groups representing under-served and disadvantaged communities. Grantmakers will design competitive application and submission processes, award environmental justice subgrants, implement a tracking and reporting system, provide resources and support to communities, all…

A new website provides an overview of current and upcoming funding opportunities from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act. We encourage you to check this page frequently as updates will be posted regularly. Competition opening dates represent our current best projections. They are provided for planning purposes but subject to further revision. The table below…

The new P2 Grant RFAs funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) that focuses on environmental justice (EJ) and safer products have now been posted on Grants.gov and the EPA P2 Grant website (links below).  The P2 Grant website has also been updated to accommodate the new grant information and resources, such as an application…

On January 20th, USEPA announced the availability of $100 million of grants through the Inflation Reduction Act for projects that advance environmental justice in underserved and communities overburdened by pollution and historic underinvestment.  This funding marks the largest amount of environmental justice grant funding ever offered by USEPA. USEPA has published two Requests for Applications…

The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) announced  “2023 Healthy Housing Mini-Grants: Innovative Strategies to Support Home-Based Child Care Providers,” a new funding opportunity to help communities pursue and/or implement their project ideas for creating a financing solution for home-based child care providers and others to address environmental hazards in child care homes. NCHH invites communities…

The Biden-Harris Administration announced the availability of $550 million from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act to expedite investments through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking (EJ TCGM) program. This new, innovative program will fund up to 11 entities to serve as grantmakers to community-based projects that reduce pollution. Selected…

USEPA announced the availability of $100 million of grants through the Inflation Reduction Act for projects that advance environmental justice in underserved and communities overburdened by pollution and historic underinvestment.  This funding marks the largest amount of environmental justice grant funding ever offered by USEPA. USEPA has published two Requests for Applications for this funding…