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Funding Opportunity
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James Cary Smith Community Grant
Organization Name
Bay Area Air Quality Management District
Funding Opportunity Brief *
Grants to community-based organizations, neighborhood associations, and other community-based, local nonprofits to leverage community power to fully participate in decisions that impact the environment and health of the c
Program Name
James Cary Smith Grant Program
Equity Categories
Disadvantaged Community
Low Income Community
Eligible Applicant
Nonprofit/NGO/CBO
Description

The Air District is pleased to announce a grant opportunity for Bay Area community-based organizations, neighborhood associations, and other local nonprofits to uplift local efforts that improve air quality and public health. Grants must be used to design and implement strategies that foster authentic and meaningful engagement, and build community capacity to actively participate in planning activities that improve a community’s environmental health.

The Air District seeks to provide grant funding for projects that will:

  • Help build community capacity to participate in one or more of the following: reducing air pollution, reducing human exposure to air pollution, and/or increasing community members’ ability to meaningfully engage with the Air District and its work;

  • Design and implement strategies that foster authentic and meaningful engagement, and empower and build organizational and community capacity to actively participate in planning activities that improve a community’senvironmental health;

  • Uplift local efforts that improve air quality and public health; and

  • Serve environmental justice communities, including communities that are under- resourced, income challenged, unhoused, English language learners, and/or overburdened by a disproportionate share of air pollution.



Available Funding
$1,500,000.00
Maximum Award Amount
$300,000.00
Tags
GHG Emission Reduction
Air Quality
Environmental Justice
Equity