DEC Awards Over $2 Million in Grants to Community Based Organizations
Governor Cuomo recently announced $2.6 million in Environmental Justice Community Impact Grants to 28 organizations. The funding supports projects that address environmental and public health concerns in environmental justice communities. Projects include research and outreach to expand knowledge and awareness of community residents. The 28 organizations receiving funding in this latest round will enhance and clean up vacant lots, create organic urban farms, improve local waterways, expand environmental education and engage young people with green jobs, address soil health, and build awareness and support for community-owned solar.
DEC awarded grants to the following organizations:
Capital District
- Arbor Hill Development Corporation: Community Empowerment through Community Participatory Mapping – $99,990
- Capital Roots Inc: Urban Environmental Transformation: Youth Empowerment for Community Change – $99,929
- Media Alliance, Inc: Germinating The NATURE Lab Environmental Education Center – $100,000
- RADIX Ecological Sustainability Center: Albany South End Environmental Justice Project Expansion – $100,000
Central New York
- Finger Lakes ReUse Inc: Material Reuse as Community Resource for Underserved Populations in Ithaca NY – $93,525
Rochester Area
- Blueprint Geneva, Inc: Urban Agriculture Engagement and Food Waste Diversion Program – $100,000
- Friends of the Garden Aerial Inc: Green Visions Workforce Development Program and Community Gardens – $100,000
- Rochester Peoples Climate Coalition, Inc., fiscal sponsor for Rochester’s City-Wide Tenants’ Union (CWTU): Engaging Renters in Rochester’s Potential Environmental Justice Areas in Healthy Homes Advocacy – $98,330
Hudson Valley
- Groundwork Hudson Valley: From Vision to Reality: The Yonkers Greenway Community Park – $100,000
- Poughkeepsie Gardens: $100,000, Poughkeepsie Farm Project
- Sarah Lawrence College fiscal sponsor for Beczak Environmental Education Center: The Yonkers Blue Team: Tackling Local Water Quality Issues through Research and Youth Engagement – $100,000
Long Island
- Flanders, Riverside and Northampton Community Association, Inc: Riverside Maritime Trail Phase II Development & Programming – $50,000
- Long Beach Latino Civic Association: Project BAY AREA – $100,000
New York Metropolitan
- Bronx River Alliance, Inc: Pollinator Raingarden – $72,953
- Cooper Square Community Development Committee: Low Income HDFC Environmental Resiliency Project – $100,000
- Friends of Van Cortlandt Park: Tibbetts Restoration, Exploration and Clean-Up (TREC) – $99,995
- Gowanus Canal Conservancy, Inc: Gowanus Canal Conservancy School Clean & Green Program – $99,702
- Neighbors Allied for Good Growth: Mapping Environmental (In)Justice – $89,664
- Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn: Urban Lab for Open Spaces Air Monitoring Study – $99,003
- Rockaway Waterfront Alliance, Inc: Shore Corps: Green Stewards Youth Internship & Workforce Development Program – $100,000
- Rocking the Boat, Inc: Measuring Bronx River Water Quality and Pathogen Levels – $77,577
- The Bronx is Blooming: The Bronx is Blooming’s Program for Leaders Advancing their Community’s Environment (PLACE) – $100,000
- United Community Centers, Inc: East New York Healthy Soil Initiative – $100,000
- UPROSE Inc: The Sunset Park Regenerative Energy Education Project (REEP) – $50,000
- West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc: A Community-Based Education and Planning Project about Climate Change-Related Health Impacts in Inwood – $100,000
- Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, Inc: YMPJ Air, Water, & Food Vulnerability Project – $100,000
Western New York
- Broadway-Fillmore Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc. fiscal sponsor for Fillmore Forward, Inc: The Square Community Garden & Farmers Market Project – $93,830
- Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc: Growing Green: $75,500
For more information available funding opportunities, please visit our grants page. |
