The Green & Healthy Homes Initiative is accepting applications for its Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program.
Donor Name: Green & Healthy Homes Initiative
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/30/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
GHHI’s Thriving Communities Grantmaking program, in collaboration with the EPA, will award $40 million in grants, flowing from the Inflation Reduction Act, to fund 171 eligible projects in historically disinvested communities throughout EPA’s Region 3 (includes Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and 7 federally recognized tribes).
The Region 3 Thriving Communities Grantmaker, GHHI, has been awarded funding by the EPA to run a competition to provide funding to historically, underserved communities that have been disproportionately burdened by environmental hazards and health consequences and have faced environmental and energy justice challenges. These communities are often exposed to unhealthy land uses, poor air and water quality, dilapidated housing that leads to lead exposure, and other environmental threats that drive health disparities. The combination of environmental risks and social inequities creates a cumulative, disproportionate impact that hinders optimal environmental health and justice particularly for these communities.
Purpose
- Focus resources on communities disproportionately affected by environmental, climate, and human health harms and risks
- Support capacity building for local grassroots and community-based organizations
- Provide assessment, planning, and project development funding support and technical assistance to organizations for projects to address local environmental justice issues
- Help transform disadvantaged and underserved communities into healthy, thriving communities capable of overcoming historical environmental and public health challenges.
Grantmaking Focus
Grants will support projects that focus on, but are not limited to:
- Community-led air and other pollution monitoring, prevention, and remediation, and investments in low- and zero emission and resilient technologies and related infrastructure
- Monitoring of effluent discharges from industrial facilities
- Water quality & sampling
- Small cleanup projects
- Improving food access to reduce vehicle miles traveled
- Stormwater issues and green infrastructure
- Lead and asbestos contamination
- Pesticides and other toxic substances
- Healthy homes that are energy/water use efficient and reduce indoor toxics and indoor air pollution
- Illegal dumping activities, such as education, outreach, and small-scale clean-ups
- Mitigating climate and health risks from urban heat islands, extreme heat, wood heater emissions, and wildfire events
- Workforce development that helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants
- Environmental justice training for youth
- Climate resiliency and adaptation
- Facilitating engagement of disadvantaged communities in state and federal advisory groups, workshops, rulemaking, and other public processes.
Projected Award Levels
- Tier I: Assessment
- 1 year: $150,000
- Example project activities include:
- Sampling
- Testing
- Monitoring
- Investigation
- Surveys and studies
- Public education
- Project design research
- Tier II: Planning
- 1 – 2 years: $250,000
- Example project activities include:
- Planning
- Community engagement
- Partnership building
- Public outreach and education
- Trainings
- Small land purchase and acquisition (less than 50% of award)
- Tier III: Development
- 2 years: $350,000
- Example project activities include:
- Implementation of project plans
- Development
- Blueprints, Plans, Technical development
- Obtaining permits for EJ project
- Small land purchase and acquisition (less than 50% of award).
- Noncompetitive: 1 year, $75,000 grant for severely capacity constrained communities
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible entities include:
- Nonprofit organizations
- Community-based and grassroots nonprofit organizations
- Philanthropic and civic organizations with nonprofit status
- Tribal governments (both federally recognized and state-recognized) and intertribal consortia (i.e., a partnership between two or more tribes that work together to achieve a common objective.)
- Native American Organizations (includes Indian groups, cooperatives, nonprofit corporations, partnerships, and associations that have the authority to enter into legally binding agreements)
- Local governments (as defined by 2 CFR 200.1 – includes cities, towns, municipalities, and counties, public housing authorities and councils of government)
- Institutions of higher education (e.g., private, and public universities and colleges, including community colleges).
For more information, visit GHHI.
