Prince Charitable Trusts’ Chicago Environmental Justice Program acknowledges and supports
Chicagoans’ right to healthy communities where the air, land, and water are clean and people have abundant access to open spaces and natural areas for growing food, healing, learning, health and well-being, gathering, and recreation.
Donor Name: Prince Charitable Trusts
State: Illinois
City: Chicago
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/01/2022
Details:
They recognize that this is not the reality for many ALAANA (African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, Native American) residents in their highly segregated city where persistent racism leads to disproportionately poor air and water quality and unhealthy living conditions resulting from industrial, municipal, and commercial operations and/or government laws, regulations, and policies.
They trust these residents’ knowledge about their neighborhoods, the issues they face, and the policies and resources they need to secure healthy and thriving communities. They understand achieving and sustaining environmental justice involves responsiveness to opportunities and a willingness to take risks coupled with long-term commitment and steady financial resources.
Program Strategy
They seek proposals that correspond to at least one of these strategies:
- Nurture, strengthen, or promote community control and stewardship of land and/or water resources in neighborhoods experiencing historic disinvestment
- Draw attention to environmental racism and/or the disproportionate impact of climate change in ALAANA communities and advocate for community-led solutions
- Support the next generation of environmental leaders, urban farmers and gardeners, and advocates.
Priorities
Prince Charitable Trusts’ Chicago Environmental Justice Program prioritizes addressing the mounting impact of historical and ongoing environmental racism through:
- Giving the majority of funding to organizations that center people harmed by racial and environmental injustice and those that are led by and developing the leadership of people of color
- Support for Chicago-based organizations whose efforts focus on benefits to Chicago’s Black and Latine residents
- Support for community-based organizations with an environmental justice program or project that corresponds to one of PCT’s strategies
- Consistent, multi-year, general operating support in most cases.
Eligibility Criteria
The Trusts make grants only to charitable organizations that are exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) ofthe Internal Revenue Code and are classified as public charities under Sections 509(a)(1) or 509(a)(2).
- The Trusts do not fund projects that promote or proselytize any religion. While they do fund the projects of faith-based organizations, those projects must be secular in nature.
- The Trusts do not fund organizations that discriminate on the basis of ethnicity, race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any veteran’s status.
For more information, visit PCT.
