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Environmental Justice Small Grants Program

Overview

Fiscal Year 2009 marked the 15th anniversary of EPA’s Environmental Justice Small Grants Program (EJSG). Since its inception in 1994, the Program has awarded more than $20 million in funding to 1,130 community-based organizations, and local and tribal organizations working with communities who are facing environmental justice issues.

The Environmental Justice Small Grants Program (EJSG), supports and empowers communities working on solutions to local environmental and public health issues. The Program assists recipients in building collaborative partnerships to help them understand and address environmental and public health issues in their communities. Successful collaborative partnerships involve not only well-designed strategic plans to build, maintain and sustain the partnerships, but also to work towards addressing the local environmental and public health issues.

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Request for Applications

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The Application Guidance (43 pp, 528K) for FY2010 has been released. For FY 2010, the EJSG program is emphasizing the need to address the disproportionate impacts of climate change in communities with environmental justice concerns. The EPA EJ Small Grants Program is a national program with the total funding available for awards under this solicitation at $1,000,000. EPA anticipates awarding approximately 40 grants in the amount of $25,000 each.

Questions and Answers from Nov. 10 EJSG Pre-Application Assistance Call (6 pp, 47K)

Pre-application Assistance Calls

Applicants are invited to participate in conference calls with EPA to address questions about the EJSG Program. The following are the conference call dates and times. Please call or send an e-mail to Sheila Lewis at lewis.sheila@epa.gov and provide the following information:

  1. your name;
  2. the name of your organization;
  3. the address of your organization;
  4. your phone number;
  5. and the preferred date for the call.
Date Time (EST)
December 3, 2009 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
December 17, 2009 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.

If you cannot reply by e-mail, you can also register by calling your Regional EJ Coordinator listed in Section VII of the Application Guidance.

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