Project Grant 96293712

This $500,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the CFDA program 66.034 - Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act will fund community-based air quality monitoring in South Bronx neighborhoods. The grant recipient, Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, Inc., will assemble air quality monitoring teams with local community-based organizations to conduct ambient air...

This $165,309 project grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) provides funding to City Parks Foundation, Inc. to implement an environmental education initiative in high schools across New York City's boroughs of Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. The project aims to increase environmental literacy and foster environmental stewardship among students through after-school and summer programming led by paid interns and...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) provides $136,629 to New York Sun Works Inc. to implement an environmental education program in New York City. The project will design, demonstrate, and disseminate climate and environmental education practices, methods, and techniques that will serve to increase environmental literacy and encourage pro-environmental behaviors in over 1,600 K-8th grade students...

This $200,000 cooperative agreement from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2 funds the Research Foundation of the City University of New York - City College to provide environmental job training services under the Brownfields Job Training Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA #66.815). Specifically, the awardee will recruit, train, and place unemployed and underemployed residents of New York City and the Bronx in environmental careers with skills for remediation work at...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2 awarded a $500,000 Brownfields Job Training Cooperative Agreement to The Hope Program, Inc., a non-profit organization, to recruit, train, and place unemployed and underemployed residents of the Bronx, New York in environmental careers. The program provides participants with skills and certifications needed to safely conduct remediation work at solid and hazardous waste-contaminated sites, as well as training in green remediation...

The Bronx Environmental Health Summer Training for Justice (BESTJUSTICE) program is a Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), CFDA Program 93.113 Environmental Health. The $397,041 award, effective February 1, 2025 through January 31, 2030, supports the development of a summer research program for high school students in environmental justice communities in the Bronx and Manhattan, New York. The program will provide 12 students per year with 8...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $478,958 Project Grant under CFDA 66.034 - Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act to the City of Jersey City, New Jersey to conduct ambient air monitoring and engage the community on air quality issues. The key activities include: Monitoring pollutants of concern, such as ozone (O3) and particulate matter (PM2.5), over a 3-year period in two environmental...

This $520,512 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2 under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) program will fund a 3-year effort to establish a community-driven network platform to monitor outdoor and indoor air quality across underserved neighborhoods in New York State. Key activities include deploying 21 air quality monitoring sensors,...

This $100,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) will fund Catalyst Miami, Inc. to implement a community-focused environmental education initiative in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The project aims to increase environmental literacy and encourage environmentally responsible behaviors by training up to 100 residents aged 14 and older through three structured leadership cohorts focused on reducing air...

This $100,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) will fund Mississippi State University (MSU) Extension to implement a community-based environmental education and outreach project in Mississippi. The project aims to increase environmental literacy and encourage pro-environmental behaviors in local communities, with a focus on the Jackson metropolitan area. Key activities include developing a...