Equitable Development News | October 2024
Intersectional, collaborative projects are key to tackling the complex realities of environmental challenges - but moving beyond traditional program silos is not always easy. Over the next several months, we’ll be sharing a collection of events, resources, and funding opportunities to help you think creatively?about leveraging the intersectional social, health, benefits of environmental projects to being new partnerships and resources to your work.?Read on for your first?suite of actionable tools and resources!
From Silos to Synergy: Integrating Land and Water Programs for Holistic Environmental Action
Our?Silos to Synergy webinar series?is designed to help land and water equity practitioners like you think beyond traditional program silos and create a more holistic vision for your program. Check out our upcoming virtual webinar!
Federal Tools for Environmental Justice: Understanding and Addressing Health Disparities and Community Impacts
Curious about how satellite data could be used to demonstrate the impacts of green infrastructure on public health? Have you heard of EJScreen but are not sure how to use it? In this Silos to Synergy webinar, speakers will showcase the various tools – such as CDC public health data, EJScreen, and NASA’s EJ Data Catalog – that help people map and understand the vulnerabilities impacting our communities’ land and waterways, and connect ecosystem health with the health disparities shown by local socioeconomic data. You will walk away with a better understanding of the purpose of each tool, how to access and use them, how to use multiple tools to create a holistic picture of local climate and health challenges, and how to address them from an ecosystem perspective.
If You Missed It: Catch Up On Our First Silo-Breaking Session
On September 12th, Groundwork USA and the Center for Creative Land Recycling’s held an interactive workshop that walked participants through practical steps on how to embed equity and environmental justice principles in every phase of the land reuse process. The workshop featured case studies and tools from our toolkit, “Advancing Equity: A Practical Guide to Engaging and Activating Community Voices.” Check it out here!
From Community Vision to Community Growing Center
The Somerville Community Growing Center is a beautiful example of what centering community needs looks like in practice! About 30 years ago, the land that the center sits on was part of an old, abandoned school. When the school was torn down in 1991, the Somerville community came together to create a new vision for the space that was responsive to the need to add green open space to an otherwise dense, urban landscape.?After decades of community conversations, planning, construction and revision, the site became what it is today: a community center, urban garden, cultural space, and park. Throughout the years, the Center has grown to provide culinary, musical, artistic, and gardening programming (to name a few!) for people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities. Get inspired by their 30 year journey by listening to their story here.
#FundingUrbanForestry Three Opportunities for Community-Rooted Forestry Funding
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Rooting Resilience Request for Applications for Community-Based Organizations Due 11:59pm ET,?October 23, 2024
River Network is excited to offer funding and technical assistance for community-based nonprofit organizations who want to plan and implement small community forestry projects in federally disadvantaged communities. Grants will range from $75,000 to $200,000 over a 1-3 year period with no matching or cost share requirement. Applications are due at 11:59 PM ET on October 23, 2024. If you have questions or want to talk through your project, River Network is happy to help! Please reach out at?[email protected]?before the deadline.
The Tree Equity Catalyst Fund: Funding Opportunity for Faith-Based and Environmental Justice Organizations Due October 25, 2024
American Forests is excited to launch their second funding opportunity through a competitive RFP to support both faith-based organizations and frontline environmental justice organizations in advancing your Tree Equity initiative.These reimbursement-based subawards will range from $100,000 to $1,500,000, with 1- to 3-year terms announced by December 2024. Projects must be completed by June 30, 2028, and grantees are encouraged to leverage grant funds for matching, if possible.
Request for Proposals: Trees in Your Community Grant for Community-Based Organizations Extended to October 18, 2024
GreenLatinos, in partnership with the USDA Forest Service, is excited to announce a funding opportunity community-based nonprofits organizations to work in low-income, disadvantaged communities. Projects would implement urban forestry efforts focused on tree planting and maintenance, community engagement, and/or workforce development.?Grants range from a?minimum of $200,000 to a maximum of $1,500,000?over a 3 year period.?The application process includes a financial readiness assessment.?The deadline to submit is October 18th, 2024.?
New Resource! Equitable Development Toolkit: Community-Centered Solutions for Green Gentrification and Displacement
Across the country, neighborhoods primary composed of Black, Indigenous, people of color, and low-income residents are affected by climate change-related impacts, like extreme heat and flooding, at a disproportionately high rate. The U.S.’s history of discriminatory policies and disinvestment in these communities has left them without the green infrastructure that would protect them against climate change. Nationwide, organizations are increasingly working with these communities to undo this history of disinvestment by creating greenspaces, preventing flooding, restoring forests, and broadly building resilient and healthier environments. However, it is crucial that anti-displacement practices are prioritized in this work to ensure that green infrastructure improvements don’t cause gentrification and displacement. River Network's Equitable Development Toolkit is specifically designed to help practitioners think strategically about how to tackle this tricky subject.?
Access this resource for innovative tools, tips, strategies, and best practices to learn how to prioritize the community in green infrastructure projects and successfully prevent gentrification and displacement.
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