Environmental Justice Grants Information Session

This fall, counties will be eligible to apply for a portion of a $50 million US EPA Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking program created by the Inflation Reduction Act, the largest investment in climate action in history.

The new grant program is designed to make it easier for small community-based organizations to access federal environmental justice funding, responds to community feedback about the need to reduce barriers to federal funds and improve the efficiency of the awards process to ensure communities that have long faced underinvestment can access the benefits of the largest climate investment in history.

Eligible projects include – but are not limited to – small local clean ups, local emergency preparedness and disaster resiliency programs, environmental workforce development programs for local jobs reducing greenhouse gas emissions, fenceline air quality and asthma related projects, healthy homes programs, and projects addressing illegal dumping.

Fordham University was recently designated as the grantmaker for the NY region and will be hosting an information session on August 1, at 1:00 p.m. to learn more about the Thriving Communities Environmental Justice Grantmaker Program, and them with insight into how they can assist throughout the application process.