Deadline: 28-Oct-20
Bread & Roses have launched the Environmental Justice Fund in United States to promote equitable access to a clean and healthy environment for communities and neighborhoods most impacted by environmental racism, climate change, and environmental injustice.
Grants in the Environmental Justice Fund will be made to organizations where community members are in positions of leadership, where their lived experience is honored, where their knowledge influences the work, and where they meaningfully participate in project or campaign design and implementation.
Environmental hazards and climate change affect everyone, but communities of color, immigrants, and people living in poverty experience more significant harms because of where they live and work. The most effective environmental and climate solutions come directly from impacted communities.
Funding Information
- The Environmental Justice Fund makes one-time grants of $10,000.
Eligible environmental justice campaigns include, but are not limited to:
- Local organizing to address the climate crisis
- Dismantling environmental racism
- Promoting opportunities for the development of urban agriculture and food sovereignty
- Creating access to clean and healthy food, water, and air through systems change
- Promoting equitable water rights
- Addressing urban health hazards, such as air and noise pollution at a systems level
- Demanding access to healthy and safe housing that is affordable
- Addressing the systemic conditions that create health disparities resulting from environmental hazards
Eligibility Criteria
Organizations must meet all of the following basic requirements to be eligible for a grant from Bread & Roses:
- Must be located in Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, or Camden counties
- Must be designated by the IRS as a 501(c)3 organization or have a fiscal sponsor that is designated by the IRS as a 501(c)3 organization or have documentation of a pending 501(c)3 application with the IRS
- Must be current with all progress reports from previously awarded Bread & Roses grants
- Must submit a complete application prior to the deadline (because of the volume of applications we receive, we cannot make exceptions)
- Must be using community organizing to create sustainable social change
For more information, visit https://breadrosesfund.org/grants-scholarships/environmental-justice-fund/