The Washington State Department of Health (DOH), in collaboration with the Climate and Health Adaptation Initiative (CHAI), is offering a grant to advance climate justice through community-based initiatives.
Donor Name: Washington State Department of Health
State: Washington
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/26/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The Climate and Health Adaptation Initiative Community Capacity Building Grant Program is to advance climate justice through investments in community capacity building efforts that advance grassroots climate adaptation efforts.
The intent of the grant is to support communities advancing their own plans and projects to advance climate justice, resilience, and health.
The Climate and Health Adaptation Initiative (CHAI) is a partnership among state, federal, and academic partners to address community-identified needs to support community health in a changing climate. CHAI supports communities across Washington state who have climate change-related action plans, but may need additional resources or capacity to implement those plans.
Advancing climate justice is CHAI’s goal. The initiative is intentionally designed to have a grassroots approach: community and regional partners share their climate and health priorities, and the CHAI planning team works with communities to find resources, funding, staffing capacity, and tangible environmental and community benefits to achieve those priorities. CHAI is specifically focused on protecting and promoting the health of communities who are experiencing the harmful consequences of climate change first and worst.
In addition to the funding, grantees will have access to technical support from the Climate and Health Adaptation Initiative (CHAI) members, who include representatives from state, federal, and academic organizations with expertise in climate adaptation.
Here are some examples of the types of projects that would be eligible in no particular order:
- First foods projects.
- Support for planning and coordination to support a larger climate resilience grant proposal or funding opportunity (e.g., Federal Climate or Environmental Justice grants, state Climate Commitment funding opportunities).
- Community resilience visioning and planning.
- Community mental health.
- Organizing highly impacted communities to advance climate adaptation efforts in local comprehensive planning or other long-range planning efforts.
- Local capacity building for climate hazard resilience.
- Resilience zone or resilience hub projects.
- Health care resilience and decarbonization.
Funding Information
- Estimated Funding Range per Award: $80,000 – $120,000
- Total Amount of Funding: $750,000
Expected Period of Performance
April 1st, 2024– May 01, 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
The grantee must be a community-based organization (CBO) with communities or populations disproportionally impacted by climate injustice OR a tribal government or organization OR an academic or local government agency applying in partnership with a CBO or tribe.
In addition, the ideal grantee will meet the following qualifications:
- Administrative and fiscal capacity to set up and manage the award.
- Previous experience in climate change adaptation planning or implementation.
- Demonstrated ability to work equitably with local communities, in particular, those most impacted by climate and environmental injustice.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate and partner with external organizations with accountability and transparency.
For more information, visit WSDH.
