Deadline: 4-Oct-22
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking applications for the Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Centers Program.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $50,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $6,000,000
- Expected Number of Awards: 10
Outcomes
Examples of expected outcomes from projects may include the following:
- Increase in the number, quality, and responsiveness of applications for funding submitted to Federal, state, and private sector (e.g., philanthropic foundations) funding sources by underserved communities.
- Increased stakeholder participation in EPA and DOE programs and in private sector decision-making impacting environmental (e.g., solid and hazardous waste) and energy justice.
- Increase in the number, quality, and responsiveness of applications received for EPA competitive grant awards including increases in applications from underserved communities.
- Increased stakeholder participation in EPA and DOE programs.
- More efficient and effective grant administration, performance, and management by program participants resulting in fewer questioned costs, audits, and performance issues.
- Decrease in late application submissions based on better understanding of the application process.
- Increase in stakeholder participation in DOE programs, including those targeted at rural and remote communities or in proximity to current and former mine land.
- Any other appropriate and relevant outcomes identified by applicants contributing to the goals of this RFA.
Eligibility Criteria
EPA has limited eligibility for this funding opportunity to the following eligible entities as permitted by the applicant eligibility section of the listing which allows EPA to limit eligibility to a subset of eligible applicants:
- Public and private universities and colleges
- Public and private nonprofit institutions/organizations (includes institutions of higher education such as community colleges, and philanthropic organizations),
- Intertribal Consortia – a coalition between two or more Indian tribal governments authorized by the governing bodies of those tribes to apply for and receive assistance and participate in self-governance
- Boards and organized Labor Unions that meet these criteria may be eligible nonprofit organizations.
Ineligible
- state and local governments and their agencies and instrumentalities;
- state recognized tribes;
- federal tribes
- US Territories and possessions
- hospitals;
- for-profit businesses;
- quasi-governmental entities (e.g., water districts, utilities);
- International organizations
- Individuals
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=342977