WEACT Awards Capacity Building Grants; NYS Pollution Prevention Institute Accepts Applications for Grant Program

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Winners From Across The State Announced

DEC Announces Environmental Justice Capacity Building Grant Program Award Winners

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo recently announced $900,000 in funding from New York’s Environmental Justice Capacity Building Grant Program awarded $50,000 to 18 community-based environmental justice organizations across the state. The funding will help community-based groups in New York’s frontline communities increase administrative, technical, and programmatic capacity and expand their services protecting public health and the environment.

Awardees include:

Capital District

  • Kite’s Nest Hudson, NY
  • Media Alliance Troy, NY
  • Soul Fire Farm Institute, Inc. Petersburg, NY

Central New York

  • Brady Faith Center, Inc. Syracuse, NY
  • Onondaga Earth Corps, Inc. Syracuse, NY
  • Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments, Inc. (VINES) Binghamton, NY

Hudson Valley

  • Groundwork Hudson Valley Yonkers, NY

New York Metropolitan

  • BK ROT Brooklyn, NY
  • Friends of WHEELS New York, NY
  • Cooper Square Community Development Committee, Inc. New York, NY
  • Sure We Can, Inc Brooklyn, NY
  • South Bronx Unite Bronx, NY
  • The Campaign Against Hunger Brooklyn, NY
  • The Guardians of Flushing Bay, Inc. Queens, NY
  • WE STAY/Nos Quedamos, Inc. Bronx, NY

Long Island

  • Long Beach Latino Civic Association Long Beach, NY
  • Connected Communities Rochester, NY

Western New York

  • Grassroots Gardens of Western New York Buffalo, NY

In October 2019, West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc., (WE ACT) was selected to manage the new streamlined Environmental Justice Capacity Building Grants program, in coordination with DEC. The program is funded through the state’s Environmental Protection Fund to advance Governor Cuomo’s commitment to supporting the work of environmental justice organizations throughout New York focused on addressing environmental justice issues. Grants will advance local efforts to inform and engage residents on environmental concerns and decision-making that impacts public health and the environment, creates community-led scientific research initiatives, prepares for climate change impacts and improves environmental conditions in their neighborhoods.

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