The Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at Texas Southern University was selected as one of the eleven “Grantmakers” under its $600 million Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking (EJ TCGM) program, created by President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the largest investment in climate action in history.
EPA Region 6
Details
The Center will work closely with its community-based organization partner, Achieving Community Tasks Successfully (ACTS) and other Region 6 organization to to maximize the impact of these combined environmental justice funds—and ensure the resources follow the needs of disadvantaged communities and organizations that historically have been left out and left behind.
The allocation of this funding, which amounts to $40 million in grants spread over a three-year period, reflects the Biden-Harris Administration's commitment to removing longstanding barriers that have hindered communities in their pursuit of federal grants.
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Eligibility
Grants will be awarded with guidance from a committee of environmental justice leaders representing communities throughout the region.
Communities will be able to apply to the TSU Grantmakers Program for subgrants to fund a range of different environmental project activities, including (but not limited to) small local clean ups, local emergency preparedness and disaster resiliency programs, environmental workforce development programs for local jobs reducing greenhouse gas emissions, fence-line air quality and asthma related projects, healthy homes programs, and projects addressing illegal dumping and a host of other environmental areas.
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We will award one-year grants of up to $150,000 for project assessment. Eligible activities include, but are not limited to:
Developing curricula, community mapping, and research. Through a noncompetitive process, we will also award grants of up to $75,000 to capacity-constrained communities and community-based organizations under Tier One.
We will award one- to two-year grants of up to $250,000 for project planning. Eligible activities include, but are not limited to:
Developing communications and outreach plans; conducting workshops and trainings; or other community planning and visioning efforts.
We will award two-year grants of up to $350,000 for project development. Eligible activities include, but are not limited to:
Strengthening cumulative impact, public health, or environmental justice protections; developing community gardens; or creating community resilience hubs.
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