EPA Community Change Grant Call for Initiatives

The Office of Climate and Sustainability is partnering with 6 community-based organizations to create a community-driven plan to address climate change and pollution, which the Office plans submit to the EPA’s Community Change Grants Program later this year.

Funding of up to $20 million is available for implementation of the plan. We are calling on all New Haven residents to share their specific proposals to include as part of the plan.

We want to hear from you about programs, projects, and initiatives that we should undertake to mitigate climate change and reduce pollution! These initiatives can be new ideas or build on existing activities, and they can be physical infrastructure (e.g. bike lanes or bioswales) or programs/services (e.g. community education about recycling, assisting residents in accessing energy efficiency programs).

Please share your ideas as individual submissions using this form by May 29^th, 2024.

Get involved in a Work Group or other aspects of the work.

The Working Group will be convening 3-4 Work Groups to help then review and assess all these possible initiatives and craft the proposal.   Sign up for these groups or other roles in the work here

We are documenting all the work currently underway in New Haven around climate change and pollution reduction:

• Download a Fact Sheet here.
• Additional details about the grant here.
• The full grant announcement here.
• Check out the list of identified work here.
• Submit additional projects or efforts here.

The Community Change Working Group – made up of the Office of Climate and Sustainability, Greater Dwight Development Corporation, St. Luke’s Development Corporation, the Newhallville Community Services Development Corporation, Community Action Agency of New Haven, Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven, and Junta for Progressive Action – will review all of the submissions for inclusion in the grant proposal.