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Environmental Justice Achievement Awards
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Overview
The 2009 Environmental Justice Achievement Awards will recognize mutli-stakeholder partnerships for their success in addressing environmental justice issues or by adopting the goals of environmental justice to positively impact their community.
The goals of the Environmental Justice Awards Program include, but are not limited to, the following:
- promoting positive behavior on environmental justice issues by all stakeholder groups,
- documenting models of success for others to emulate,
- encouraging achievement of environmental results in communities having environmental justice issues, and
- fostering collaborative problem solving by all stakeholder organizations to address significant environmental justice concerns.
To be considered for the award, mutli-stakeholder parternships will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
- partnerships and collaboration
- innovation
- community, equity, and public involvement
- environmental justice integration
- leveraged resources/capacity building/sustainability
- demonstrated results/effectiveness
Recent Awards
On October 21, 2008, EPA announced 12 winners of its first annual Environmental Justice Achievement Awards. The awards were given to organizations in the following categories:
- Academic institutions
- Duke University, Children’s Environmental Health Initiative (PDF) (135KB, 1 page)
- Dillard University, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (PDF) (125KB, 1 page)
- Medical University of South Carolina (PDF) (122KB, 1 page)
- Community based organizations
- West End Revitalization Association (PDF) (146KB, 1 page)
- Center for Environmental and Economic Justice (PDF) (127KB, 1 page)
- Citizens for Environmental Justice (PDF) (138KB, 1 page)
- Safer Pest Control Project (PDF) (127KB, 1 page)
- Non-governmental and environmental organizations
- Communities for a Better Environment (PDF) (123KB, 1 page)
- State and local government organizations
- South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (PDF) (129KB, 1 page)
- New Mexico Environment Department (PDF) (120KB, 1 page)
- Negocio Verde Environmental Justice Task Force (PDF) (124KB, 1 page)
- Tribal government and indigenous organizations
- Anahola Homesteaders Council (PDF) (140KB, 1 page)
Requests for Applications
On February 12, 2009, a new announcement was released for the Environmental Justice Achievement Awards Program was released. The 2009 National Achievements in Environmental Justice Awards (PDF) (1,800KB, 3 pages) will recognize multi-stakeholder partnerships for their success in addressing environmental justice issues. Applications must be post-marked or emailed by no later than May 13, 2009
Multi-stakeholder partnerships refer to the arrangement in which stakeholders work together to achieve goals. Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships bring together diverse organizations with multiple perspectives and interests to address these issues. Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships, for the purpose of addressing environmental justice issues, consist of various partners representing viewpoints from the following types of organizations:
- Academic Institutions
- Business and Industry organizations
- Community based organizations
- Non-governmental and Environmental organizations
- State and local government organizations
- Tribal government and indigenous organizations