Environmental Justice Training and Fellowship Assistance

The Environmental Protection Agency funds Environmental Justice Training and Fellowship Assistance (CFDA 66.307) through Project Grants that support workforce development and legal training in environmental fields, with the most recent award disbursed in July 2006.

This program has not awarded grants in twenty years. The portfolio reflects four awards spanning 2005 to 2006, with no subsequent grant opportunities posted or awards issued since then. Recent grant activity funded environmental professional training programs, community education on non-litigation environmental tools and remedies, environmental law and alternative dispute resolution training, and a national summit on diversity in the environmental field. The Environmental Protection Agency holds sole funding responsibility and obligated $1 million across all four awards.

Award magnitudes ranged from $10 thousand to $875 thousand. The largest award funded an environmental law and alternative dispute resolution project ($875 thousand). Other representative grants supported non-lawyer community residents' understanding of environmental non-litigation opportunities ($124.5 thousand) and an environmental professional training initiative ($11,054). All awards were structured as Project Grants with typical completion periods of one to five years.

The dormancy of this program — no grants awarded in the past two decades — suggests it is not actively soliciting applications. No recent opportunities appear in the grants ecosystem. Before investing business development resources, verify current program status directly with the Environmental Protection Agency, as the absence of recent awards may indicate the program is inactive, consolidated, or superseded by other environmental justice or training funding lines. If the program remains technically open, the extended gap between the 2006 awards and today signals either extremely infrequent competition cycles or practical discontinuation.