This agreement provides funding under the inflation reduction act (IRA) to front and centered

Specifically, the project will engage community-based organizations and community members in disadvantaged areas to improve their ability to participate in the environmental decision-making process.activities:the activities include implementing a leadership training program to train members of community-based organizations on the environmental decision-making process, and implementing community assemblies in disadvantaged communities to identify community environmental concerns.subrecipient:solid ground will support stewardship for information generated from community assemblies and link solutions identified in community assemblies to opportunities statewide. Peoples economy lab will train and organize community-based anchors to implement community assemblies that inform environmental justice policies. Community assembly subawards will individually award organizations who are implementing the community assembly process in their respective disadvantaged communities. Leadership training subawards will be individually awarded to organizations who have a member participating in the leadership training program hosted by front and centered.outcomes:the anticipated deliverables include 45 organizational leaders trained in the leadership training program across 2 cohorts; 15 community-based organizations conducting community assemblies across 5 cohorts; and 6 technical advisory group meetings. The expected outcomes include increased understanding of and participation in local, state, federal, and other governmental environmental public processes within washington's disadvantaged communities, better-informed decisions and actions by the government on environmental justice issues to benefit disadvantaged communities, and development of new environmental or climate policies that are responsive to disadvantaged communities. The intended beneficiaries are disadvantaged communities.