M&T Bank (“the Bank”) is pleased to launch the AMPLIFY Fund’s Equity & Environment Initiative (“AF-EEI”) a new, two-year effort to advance a stronger, more just environmental movement, and to establish and/or strengthen effective interventions in communities contending with myriad environmental challenges.
Donor Name: M&T Bank
States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 07/18/2022
Grant Size: not exceed $25,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
Through AF-EEI, the Bank will provide non-renewable, two-year funding to CBOs working to advance environmental justice through programmatic initiatives and/or policybased work. The objective of the Fund is to provide support to trusted community organizations that are engaged in environmental justice work as a way to improve the lives of those in the communities they serve. This work should respond directly to documented community needs, with the goal of reducing environmental harm and enhancing community well being.
AF-EEI also welcomes—but does not require—collaborative work and applications from coalitions working to advance environmental progress and justice. The goal is to support innovative ideas and creative approaches–from pilot projects to ongoing initiatives–that will have the greatest impact on those most directly affected by environmental challenges. Applications focused on laying the groundwork for local environmental policy change, or change that might have broader environmental impact will also be considered, given the clearly “borderless” challenges of living with things like polluted air and water.
Funding Information
Annual grants will not exceed $25,000 in each of the two years of the EEI’s operation.
States & Counties Eligible to Apply
Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, the lower Hudson Valley of New York, the five boroughs (Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens and Richmond Counties), and Long Island.
Eligibility Criteria
To be considered for a Fund grant, a CBO must meet the eligibility criteria listed below:
- Be an IRS designated 501c 3 organization.
- Have programming or is placed within a legacy People’s United Bank footprint
- Be community-based in its location, origins, and method of operation, or be a coalition of community-based and environmental justice organizations.
- Have a demonstrated commitment to addressing exposure to environmental harm and its short- and long-term impact on community residents.
- Have a demonstrated commitment to justice and equity in its organizational composition, and policies in place that attend to this commitment.
- Focus on working with populations that have been underserved, poorly served, or overlooked, whether long-term residents or those who are new to the community.
- Examples might include but are not limited to: low-income individuals/families; immigrants; populations indigenous to certain geographic areas; incarcerated or formerly incarcerated individuals; pansexual, transgender and/or gender nonconforming individuals; unhoused individuals or families; and individuals with disabilities.
- Actively include a representative group of residents, board members, and other area constituents in the goal setting and management of the organization.
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