Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking (EJ TCGM) Program
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Approximately $550 million is available to select approximately 11 eligible entities to become Grantmakers. Grantmakers will design competitive application and submission processes, award environmental justice subgrants, implement a tracking and reporting system, provide resources and support to communities, all in collaboration with EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights. The EJ TCGM program was created to reduce barriers to the application process and increase the efficiency of the awards process for environmental justice grants.
The entities eligible to apply under this Request for Applications and serve as an EJ Thriving Communities Grantmaker are as follows:
- a community-based nonprofit organization; or
- a partnership of community-based nonprofit organizations
- a partnership between— a federally recognized Tribal government and a community-based nonprofit organization
- a partnership between— an institution of higher education and a community-based nonprofit organization.
The pre-application webinar recording can be viewed on the application page.
