Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program (at ISC)
In December 2023, the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) was named one of three Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmakers, a program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking program that was created by President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, the largest investment in climate action in history. The EPA also designated 9 regional grantmakers for a total of 11 grantmakers nationwide.
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Background
The goal of this program is to make it easier for small, community-based organizations—particularly those with low capacity or resources—to access federal environmental justice funding. The project is in response to community feedback about the need to reduce barriers to federal funds and improve the efficiencies to ensure communities that have long faced underinvestment can access the benefits of the largest climate investment in history.
"ISC is thrilled to work with the EPA to support its national Environmental Justice Grantmaking efforts alongside our partners. We welcome this opportunity to reduce the barriers communities face in applying for federal grants through a bottom-up, community-centric approach, and recognize the important role of multi-sectoral partnerships like the EJ TCGM program to mitigate cumulative impacts of the climate crisis in overburdened communities."