Deadline: 31-Jul-24
Does your organization work within communities impacted by ship & port pollution? If yes, then apply for Pacific Environment’s grant!
Through this grant opportunity, Pacific Environment aims to fund multi-level organizations, including community-based groups, environmental justice organizations, and environmental organizations. They value and plan to prioritize frontline organizations, community-based groups, and environmental justice organizations that are serving and working within communities directly impacted by ship and port pollution.
Funding Information
- Organizations can apply for a grant amount of any size, but to help manage expectations, they want to share that last year the average grant size was $65,000.
Timeline
- They are flexible on the timeline and length of the project as long as it takes place in 2025. Renewal options are a possibility but not guaranteed.
Eligible Projects
- They are seeking to fund projects that align with the overall objectives of:
- Help pass policies that put ships on mandatory zero emission pathways, help create zero emission trade routes.
- Help stop ports’ fossil fuel build-out and support just, thriving, and healthy port communities.
- Secure zero emission commitments and actions from major players and stakeholders including ports, policy makers, cargo owners, and more that bring pollution into ports.
- The following are a few examples of what proposed projects can result in but, ultimately, they recognize applicants as experienced leaders and defer to them. Project plans can include but are not limited to community building, movement infrastructure building, capacity building, grassroots power-building, coalition building, campaigning, educating policy makers, advocacy with actionable items such as press conferences, rallies, nonviolent direct actions, op-eds, event organization and strategizing together on building community power to hold ports accountable.
Location
- They will prioritize projects in port communities in California, New Jersey, New York, Oregon and Washington but will consider funding projects and organizations that are taking on acute port crises in other regions throughout the United States.
Eligibility Criteria
- They are open to receiving proposals for relevant projects from organizations that may or may not already explicitly work on shipping but whose overall goals focus on the environmental and health impacts suffered by portside communities due to shipping and ports’ fossil fuel emissions. They seek to unite campaigners, activists, conservation groups, community members, environmental groups, and health care professionals behind the shared goal of ending ship and port pollution and creating cleaner, safer and thriving port communities.
- They encourage organizations active in communities harmed by environmental degradation and from backgrounds underrepresented in the environmental movement to apply. Organizations led by and representing Indigenous persons; People of color; transgender, gender-nonconforming, and LGBTQ people; women; and people of working-class experiences are encouraged to apply.
- They also understand that the proposal process can be a time-consuming process for organizations with limited capacity. Please feel welcome to reach out to them if you are interested but unsure if your team has capacity to apply. Organizations are also welcome to submit joint grant proposals as long as each participating organization meets the criteria.
- Applicants must be 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations in the U.S. or have a fiscal sponsor at the time of the application.
- To receive funds, applicants must provide a Certificate of Insurance (COI) with Pacific Environment named as additional insured from the organization or fiscal sponsor. Applicants (or fiscal sponsors, if applicable) with a gross income of two million dollars must provide audited financial statements. If applicants (or fiscal sponsors, if applicable) carry an operating budget lower than two million dollars, they request they provide their 990 form and complete W 9 form. If awarded funding, applicants must provide a Certificate of Insurance (COI) with Pacific Environment named as additional insured from the organization or fiscal sponsor upon execution of the grant agreement in order to receive funds.
For more information, visit Pacific Environment.