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Environmental Justice Community Impact Grant Program

The New York State DEC Office of Environmental Justice is now accepting grant applications from community organizations for projects that address environmental and related public health issues. Projects must address multiple harms and risks to communities and communicate project results to the community residents.

The deadline for submission of applications is 5:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Awards ranging from $2,500 to $50,000 will be given out for projects such as, but not limited to:

  • Green collar training programs
  • Studies to increase public awareness and understanding of environmental contamination or cleanup activities
  • Community inventories of environmental contamination
  • Demonstration projects of green rooftops for storm water abatement
  • Alternative energy projects
  • Air and water quality monitoring
  • Community gardens
  • Studies of pollution impacts on subsistence fishing
  • Cleanup of lead or mercury contamination in homes or schools
  • Demonstrations of pollution control methods
  • Education projects that connect inner-city students to nature
  • Projects that address sources of household hazardous waste within the community
  • Inventories of open space in the community and demonstration of beneficial uses of that open space

Community organizations do not need 501(c)(3) non-profit status to apply!




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