Deadline: 25-Jun-21
Applications are now open for the CHEJ’s Small Grants Program for grassroots groups working on environmental health and justice issues with the aim to build healthy communities nationwide. Grassroots communities of color, low wealth, rural and urban groups are encouraged to apply.
CHEJ prioritizes community-based organizations aiming to have local, state, and regional impact as the core of the health and environmental justice movement. CHEJ believes that no social change on behalf of the exploited comes without strong community-based organizations.
Funding Information
- Tier 1: The grant application is different for different sized organizations. Small organizations and all-volunteer groups with budgets under $50,000. Grants are available in this tier range from $1,000 to $5,000.
- Tier 2: Organizations with budgets no greater than $250,000. Grants are available in this tier range from $5,000 to $10,000.
- Tier 3: Larger organizations with budgets over $250,000. Grants are available in this tier range from $10,000 to $20,000.
Activities
- Board Development
- Fundraising efforts
- Training leaders to go door-to-door
- Educational activities directly connected to your strategic plan
- Membership outreach
- Meetings to develop organizing/strategic plans. Events that are part of that plan
- Equipment for communications, such as the purchase of Zoom software
- General events, done safely, and honoring social distancing
Projects they don’t likely to fund:
- Film or Documentary production
- Individuals
- Legal assistance
- Natural environmental protections
- Organization outside of the United States
- Community gardens
- National organizations
- Market campaigns
- Food banks
- National Campaigns, (except local/statewide group specific efforts may fit into a campaign)
- Groups with annual budget over one million dollars
- They no longer can fund environmental testing
- Legislative lobbying
- CHEJ’s Small Grants program focuses on addressing environmental threats and associated public health harms.
For more information, visit http://chej.org/chej-small-grants-program/