OEJECR Grants News and Updates
The Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights (OEJECR) is committed to providing grantees and communities with information that is useful and pertinent. On this webpage, you can expect to find grantee success stories, program deadline reminders and updates, and information about upcoming and past engagements. If you would like to suggest additional content for this webpage, please email Hannah Joyce (joyce.hannah@epa.gov).
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Program Updates & Engagement Opportunities
The Community Change Grant Program: Notice of Funding Opportunity now open and accepting applications through November 21, 2024.
The Community Change Grants Program (CCG) will invest approximately $2 billion dollars into community-driven initiatives to transform communities disproportionately impacted by climate change. Applications are being accepted on Grants.gov, now through November 21st, 2024.
- Read the CCG press release.
- Learn more about the CCG program.
- Learn more about technical assistance for the CCG program.
- Learn about upcoming and past engagement opportunities for the CCG program
Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program: 11 awardees announced!
The 11 Grantmakers will design competitive environmental justice subgrant programs to reduce barriers to the federal grants application process to meet communities where they are.
- Read the EJTCGM press release.
- Learn more about the EJTCGM program.
The Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Cooperative Agreement and Environmental Justice Government-to-Government Programs: 186 awardees announced!
The 186 Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Cooperative Agreement Program (EJCPS) and Environmental Justice Government-to-Government Program (EJG2G) selectees will develop solutions to environmental or public health issues in their communities to ensure access to clean air and water, and the development of climate resilience solutions.
- Read the EJCPS & EJG2G press release.
- Learn more about the EJCPS program.
- Learn more about the EJG2G program.
The Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Centers: Now in operation and receiving intake requests
The 16 Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Centers (EJ TCTACs) are now in operation and receiving intake requests from local organizations requesting technical assistance.
- Read the EJ TCGM press release.
- Learn more about the EJ TCGM program.
Grantee Spotlights
Tennessee Environmental Council: EJ CPS 2021 Awardee
The Tennessee Environmental Council (TEC) has recycled 233,950 pounds of materials through their “Recycling Roundup” project funded by the Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem Solving Cooperative Agreement program (EJCPS). To date, TEC has performed ten “Recycling Roundup” events across the state of Tennessee, including events in North Nashville, Clarksville, Memphis, Robbins, Ripley, and Camden. At these events, TEC gathers and properly recycles difficult to recycle items and materials like electronics, mattresses, textiles, ink cartridges, and tires, thus reducing the amount of waste entering landfills around vulnerable, overburdened Tennessee communities. Learn more about the incredible impacts from their EJ grant on their website.
TEC’s Clarksville Recycling Roundup
Total Weight of Items TEC has Recycled After 10 Recycling Roundups
The Sundari Foundation, Inc. dba Lotus House Women’s Shelter: EJSG 2021 Awardee
The Sundari Foundation’s Lotus House, a women and children’s shelter in Miami, Florida, has used its $75,000 in EJ Small Grants funding to provide bi-weekly information, education, and job training to shelter residents to increase knowledge of COVID-19 prevention strategies. Through this increased understanding of respiratory illness, prevention, and the importance of good indoor air quality, guests of Lotus House could improve their individual health and advance the collective health of the community. Lotus House educated 197 children experiencing homelessness about COVID-19, delivered bi-monthly print resources to over 250 women and youth experiencing homelessness to improve access to health information, helped 170 women, youth, and children experiencing homelessness to obtain COVID-19 testing, and inactivated airborne viruses and bacteria though the installation of UV air sanitizing systems. To learn more about their impressive impacts, please visit their website.
