The Connecticut Community Foundation is seeking applications for the Health and Environmental Justice Grant.
Donor Name: Connecticut Community Foundation
State: Connecticut
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/08/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Within the Health and Environmental Justice (HEJ) framework, it is acknowledged that health and quality of life are influenced by where individuals are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age. Improving health outcomes requires an inclusive and thoughtful approach that supports the whole person within their community.
The approach focuses on
- Supporting programs, advocacy and system change efforts that address health disparity
- Increasing access to safe and affordable housing
- Improving food systems to ensure access and affordability
- Improving health systems to ensure access, culturally responsive practices, and affordability
- Applying an Environmental Justice lens to projects that seek to clean up land, air and neighborhoods in order to positively impact health
Efforts they support include
- Behavioral health, chronic disease management, disease prevention, maternal and infant health, and physical health.
- Housing advocacy efforts to address safety and eviction, safe housing, including home repairs, homeless outreach, and case management.
- Supporting food pantry programs, waste reduction, and basic needs such as clothing, beds, mattresses, and diapers.
- Transportation and language services for patients in need, cultural competency training for staff, and prescription assistance.
- Reducing environmental disparities across communities, tracking air quality, planting trees in urban areas, and creating community gardens.
Funding Information
The average grant amount is between $5,000 and $15,000.
Eligibility Criteria
To apply for funding, an organization must:
- Be a not-for-profit organization recognized under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or a municipal entity seeking a grant for public purposes. Organizations may also have a nonprofit fiscal sponsor if they do not have their own nonprofit status.
- Have a board that is representative of the community, of which a majority are neither employees nor relatives of employees.
For more information, visit CCF.
