Grants

How We Fund
Types of Grants
Tier 1 | Up to $150,000 (ES)
Assessment Projects
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Up to $150,000 for a one-year project period (ES)

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Tier 2: Planning Grants
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Amount: $250,000 

Duration: 1 year or 2 years

Ideal For: Communities ready to plan solutions

Purpose: Develop solutions for known environmental justice Issues 

Activities that can be funded: 

  • Creating action plans
  • Building partnerships
  • Community engagement
  • Stakeholder coordination
  • Training programs
  • Small-scale community projects
  • Limited land acquisition (under $125,000)
Tier 3: Development Grants
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Amount: $350,000 

Duration: 2 years

Ideal For: Communities ready to take actions

Purpose: Implement your environmental justice project

Types of activities that can be funded:

  • Technical project development
  • Construction blueprints
  • Permit acquisition
  • Project implementation
  • Community outreach
  • Limited land acquisition (under $175,000)
Capacity Constrained
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Duration: 1 year

Ideal For: severely capacity-constrained organizations

A limited amount of $75,000 non-competitive grants will be available for severely capacity-constrained community-based organizations.

 

What We Fund
Grantmaking Focus

Assessing and addressing environmental hazards in your community. Impacted people from the community should be included in the research of and developing solutions to the problem. 

Project types that may be funded include, but are not limited to:

  • Indoor/Outdoor air quality & asthma impacts
  • Water quality & sampling
  • Lead and asbestos contamination
  • Pesticides and other toxic substances
  • Fenceline air quality monitoring
  • Monitoring of effluent discharges from industrial facilities
  • Stormwater issues + green infrastructure
  • Small cleanup or construction projects
  • Improved food access/fewer vehicle miles traveled
  • Environmental justice training for youth
  • Emergency preparedness and disaster resiliency
  • Illegal dumping activities, such as education, outreach, and small-scale clean-ups
Who We Fund
Eligibility

Ineligible for funding: 

  • Individuals.
  • For profit businesses.
  • State governments

EPA Regions

As the National Grantmaker - West, UNITE-EJ will provide grants to eligible communities in these three regions:
 

Region 8: Mountains and Plains

  • Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, and 28 Tribal Nations

Region 9: Pacific Southwest

  • Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and 148 tribal nations

Region 10: Pacific Northwest

  • Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and 271 Tribal Nations

If you are not located in these three regions, click here to see which grantmaker you can apply to.