Environmental Justice Grants for
Community Organizations in Virginia!

Does your organization work on environmental concerns related to air or water quality, stormwater issues, improving food access, local cleanup projects, illegal dumping activities, healthy housing, toxin remediation, or other efforts to address environmental injustices in your community? Are you looking for ways to fund your work that don’t require lengthy and complicated grant applications? Funding to support assessment and planning, as well as implementation?

If you answered YES to any of these questions, this event is for you! Register HERE to save your seat.

Under the Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program, the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI) will award grants totaling $40 million for projects in EPA’s Region 3 - which includes Pennsylvania, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and for seven federally recognized tribes.

The funding is geared to communities disproportionately affected by environmental, climate, and human health harms and risks. Eligible projects include but are not limited to, those focused on air and water quality, stormwater treatment, food access, local cleanup projects, combating illegal dumping activities, healthy housing, toxin remediation, and more.

GHHI staff are launching GHHI’s EPA Region 3 Thriving Communities Grantmaking (TCGM) program on Monday, August 19, from 12 pm - 2 pm at the United Parents Against Lead Community Resiliency Hub in Petersburg, VA.

This informational gathering is intended for community-based EJ leaders working in nonprofits, local government entities, tribal governments, Native American organizations, and public and private universities and colleges to obtain information and guidance about accessing these important funding opportunities.

WHEN:

Monday, August 19
12 pm to 2 pm (lunch is included)
REGISTER HERE

WHERE:

United Parents Against Lead Community Resiliency Hub
464 Byrne Street
Petersburg, VA 23803

WHAT:

This summer, GHHI’s TCGM program will begin accepting applications to fund more than 170 eligible EJ projects in historically disinvested communities throughout EPA’s Region 3 (includes Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and seven federally recognized tribes). Click here for more information.

Projected Award Levels:
 

• 60 Tier I subgrants: 1 year up to $150,000 assessment projects

• 51 Tier II subgrants: 1-2 years up to $250,000 planning projects

• 50 Tier III subgrants: 2 years up to $350,000 project development projects

• 10 Noncompetitive subgrants will be for one year up to $75,000 for severely capacity-constrained communities (selected by the Advisory Board)

Please email us at ThrivingCommunities@ghhi.org if you have any questions or want additional information.