This agreement provides funding to wichita state university

Specifically, the recipient will remove barriers and improve accessibility for communities with environmental justice concerns. With this critical investment, wichita state university center will provide training and other assistance to build capacity for navigating federal grant application systems, writing strong grant proposals, and effectively managing grant funding. In addition, this center will provide guidance on community engagement, meeting facilitation, and translation and interpretation services for limited english-speaking participants, thus removing barriers and improving accessibility for communities with environmental justice concerns and will also create and manage communication channels to ensure all communities have direct access to resources and information.activities:the activities include: serving as a hub for information, training, resources, technical assistance (TA), and connection for addressing environmental justice and energy justice concerns in underserved communities in missouri, nebraska, kansas, iowa and federally recognized tribes; develop operations center and focus on creating community assessment process and tools; host grant writing/management trainings, host civic engagement trainings, respond to requests from general public regarding environmental and energy justice grant making and program needs, provide training and technical assistance to identify communities of greatest need (cgns) and act as a community engagement and outreach hub for the region.subrecipient:wichita state university EJ tctac centers will provide guidance on community engagement, meeting facilitation, and translation and interpretation services for limited english-speaking participants, thus removing barriers and improving accessibility for communities with environmental justice concerns. Outcomes:the anticipated deliverables include targeted community engagements such as outreach, grant writing and evaluation workshops, trainings, community engagement events, etc. The expected outcomes includes grant training, community needs assessment, surveys, interviews, mapping, research and other tools to assess environmental justice or energy justice needs; and civic engagement and leadership development. The intended beneficiaries includes large, small, rural, remote, and tribal communities; nonprofits; businesses; local governments; and state and federal agencies across the heartland of kansas, nebraska, iowa, missouri, and federally recognized tribes. The center will build a community's ability to participate in environmental justice and energy justice decision-making at all levels of government, find and apply for grants, and engage with the private sector to be part of energy and infrastructure project design and development.