Community Revitalization Assistance
Resources from across EPA to help communities protect the environment, improve health, and strengthen their economies.

Explore
Learn more about these topics and find links to EPA publications, tools, and other resources:
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Community Spotlight

Walterboro, South Carolina, spurred downtown revitalization by supporting a commercial kitchen to help local food entrepreneurs.

Act
Funding
- Brownfields grants
- Environmental justice grants
- Smart growth grants and other funding
- Urban Waters small grants
- Understanding, managing, and applying for EPA grants
- Grants.gov
Technical Assistance
- Smart growth technical assistance programs
- Brownfields technical assistance and research
- Environmental justice technical assistance
Tools
- Land revitalization tools for communities
- Smart growth tools
- EJSCREEN
- Green Infrastructure Wizard
- Mapping and data tools (click on "Building Capacity")

Engage
Sign up for EPA listservs to get the latest information on calls for applications for grants and technical assistance; announcements of webinars, events, and publications; and other news:
- Brownfields listserv: send a blank email to brownfields-subscribe@lists.epa.gov
- Community revitalization listserv: send a blank email to epa_cmty_revital-subscribe@lists.epa.gov
- Environmental Justice listserv: send a blank email to: join-epa-ej@lists.epa.gov
- Urban Waters listserv