The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently seeking applications for its Environmental Justice Small Grants Program to improve the environment and public health conditions of tribal governments, low-income communities, and communities of color through the advancement of racial equity and environmental justice.
Donor Name: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/20/2022
Grant Size: $100,000
Details:
The immediate goals of the EJSG program are to support underserved communities through some of the initial steps of understanding, addressing, and developing solutions to local environmental and public health issues. Long-term, the EJSG program seeks to help build the overall capacity of communities with environmental justice concerns and help them create self-sustaining, community-based partnerships that will continue to improve local environments in the future. Additionally, the EJSG program is structured to be one of the more accessible federal grant programs, especially for community-based organizations who are unfamiliar with the federal grants process to strengthen their participation in the federal grant application process and build sustainable projects that continue after the award project period.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $1,600,000
- Award Ceiling: $100,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants for this funding opportunity have been limited to the following:
- Federally recognized tribal governments.
Ineligible
- Incorporated non-profit organizations;
- state-recognized tribes;
- intertribal consortia;
- US territories;
- Freely Associated States (FAS);
- colleges and universities;
- hospitals;
- for-profit businesses;
- state and local governments and their entities;
- quasi-governmental entities (e.g., water districts, utilities);
- national organizations and chapters of the aforementioned organizations;
- non-profit organizations exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code
- supporting lobbying activities as defined in Section 3 of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995; and
- International organizations and chapters of the aforementioned organizations
- Individuals
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
