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Grants
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE GRANT PROGRAMS
1. The Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Cooperative Agreement Program provides financial assistance to eligible organizations working on or planning to work on projects to address local environmental and/or public health issues in their communities, using EPA's "Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Model."
2. The Environmental Justice Small Grants Program provides financial assistance to eligible organizations to build collaborative partnerships, to identify the local environmental and/or public health issues, and to envision solutions and empower the community through education, training, and outreach.
OTHER POTENTIAL GRANT RESOURCES
To find out about grants awarded by other EPA offices and EPA Regions that address environmental justice issues. Contact a media EJ coordinator or regional EJ coordinator based on your location or area of interest.ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS DEFINITION
An eligible applicant must be either: (1) a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization as designated by the Internal Revenue Service; OR (2) a non-profit organization, recognized by the state, territory, commonwealth, or tribe in which it is located.
In addition, an eligible applicant must be able to demonstrate that it has worked directly with, or provided services to, the affected community. An "affected community," for the purposes of this assistance agreement program, is a community that is disproportionately impacted by environmental harms and risks and has a local environmental and/or public health issue that is identified in the proposal.
A "non-profit organization," means any corporation, trust, association, cooperative, or other organization that:
- is operated primarily for scientific, educational, service, charitable, or similar purposes in the public interest;
- is not organized primarily for profit; and
- uses its net proceeds to maintain, improve, and/or expand its operations.
The focus of this assistance agreement program is to build the capacity of community-based organizations to address environmental and/or public health issues at the local level. Therefore, for this assistance agreement program, the term "non-profit organization" excludes:
- colleges and universities;
- hospitals;
- state and local governments and federally-recognized Indian tribal governments;
- quasi-governmental entities*;
- national-, multi-state-, or state-wide- organizations with chapters;
- non-profit organizations that engage in lobbying activities as defined in Section 3 of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995; and
- those non-profit organizations which are excluded from coverage under paragraph 5 of OMB Circular A-122 (see OMB Circular A-122, paragraph 5 at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars/a122/a122_2004.html).
*Generally, a quasi-governmental entity is one that: (1) has a close association with the government agency, but is not considered a part of the government agency; (2) was created by the government agency, but is exempt from certain legal and administrative requirements imposed on government agencies; or (3) was not created by the government agency but performs a public purpose and is significantly supported financially by the government agency.