95341401

Description: This assistance agreement provides funding under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to Green and Healthy Homes Initiative, a regional grantmaker.

This program funds community-based organizations that are advancing environmental justice initiatives in their respective communities.

The program seeks to minimize the administrative and procedural burden of applying for federal grants and reduce the overall burden of managing funds throughout the subgrant process.

Regional grantmakers, as pass-through entities, are required to redistribute 80 percent of total funds awarded (i.e., 40 million) to communities through competitive and noncompetitive subgrants.

The remaining 2 million will be used for administration and closeout costs.

Activities: Activities in the subsequent award phase include awarding 171 subgrants.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis by review panels to include assigned GHHI grant project staff and technical assistance (TA) provider statutory partners organizations.

Additional activities include reporting on program oversight, management and evaluations for measuring success of subaward program, conducting advisory board meetings and engaging committed partners, identifying needs of subrecipients and program officers to provide responsive technical assistance, developing and implementing grant application and management software, conducting outreach and gathering input from communities on their support needs.

GHHI will track milestones, such as days between subaward execution and initial disbursements, and will complete activities, such as preparation, outreach, open call for proposals, support during application, evaluation process and post-award evaluation.

GHHI's finance and accounting team will track invoices, disbursements, and outstanding payments.

Program materials developed to support the TCGM program will be reviewed for technical accuracy and quality by the project director, project manager or other technical staff.

All TCGM materials must undergo a QA/QC review by the Region 3 Quality Assurance Manager (QAM) and EPA prior to use.

Prior to the start of applicable activities, GHHI will submit cooperative plans for project officer review regarding cap amount award policy, conflict of interest and human subjects research.

Subrecipient: Core technical assistance (TA) providers will provide assistance and tools to inform the efforts of grantees under the TCGM program.

Core TA providers include Children's National, Howard University, and 18 TBD TA providers based on the needs expressed by applicants.

If any TCGM grant funds are awarded for additional technical assistance services to an existing technical assistance provider subawardee under the grant, GHHI will not charge additional indirect costs to the grant for that technical assistance provider after the initial 25,000 dollars in total direct costs have been expended.

Children's National will provide a registry of pediatric patients with asthma in DC region, and a healthy housing map overlaying pediatric asthma morbidity and asthma-related health hazards.

Children's National will also leverage its network to promote EPA's TCGM program awareness and support applicant outreach.

Howard University will support GHHI's Thriving Communities Request for Applications (RFA) outreach as well as project implementation.

Howard University will also provide technical assistance through the Howard University School of Law and Environmental Justice Center, and the School of Architecture and Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center.

18 TBD TA providers will provide responsive TA based on the needs expressed by applicants and the related program officers.

If and when the subaward amount changes, the amount of indirect captured on this line item will not exceed the first 25,000 dollars.

Outcomes: Anticipated deliverables for the subsequent award only include distributing 60 Tier 1 subawards, 51 Tier 2 subawards, 50 Tier 3 subawards and 10 noncompetitive subawards.

Green & Healthy Homes Initiative

5 - ENSURE CLEAN AND SAFE WATER FOR ALL COMMUNITIES 5.1 - ENSURE SAFE DRINKING WATER AND RELIABLE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE 5 - ENSURE CLEAN AND SAFE WATER FOR ALL COMMUNITIES 5.1 - ENSURE SAFE DRINKING WATER AND RELIABLE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE 5 - ENSURE CLEAN AND SAFE WATER FOR ALL COMMUNITIES 5.1 - ENSURE SAFE DRINKING WATER AND RELIABLE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE 4 - ENSURE CLEAN AND HEALTHY AIR FOR ALL COMMUNITIES 4.1 - IMPROVE AIR QUALITY AND REDUCE LOCALIZED POLLUTION AND HEALTH IMPACTS 2 - TAKE DECISIVE ACTION TO ADVANCE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND CIVIL RIGHTS 2.2 - EMBED ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND CIVIL RIGHTS INTO EPA’S PROGRAMS, POLICIES, AND ACTIVITIES 5 - ENSURE CLEAN AND SAFE WATER FOR ALL COMMUNITIES 5.1 - ENSURE SAFE DRINKING WATER AND RELIABLE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE 6 - SAFEGUARD AND REVITALIZE COMMUNITIES 6.1 - CLEAN UP AND RESTORE LAND FOR PRODUCTIVE USES AND HEALTHY COMMUNITIES 6 - SAFEGUARD AND REVITALIZE COMMUNITIES 6.1 - CLEAN UP AND RESTORE LAND FOR PRODUCTIVE USES AND HEALTHY COMMUNITIES 2 - TAKE DECISIVE ACTION TO ADVANCE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND CIVIL RIGHTS 2.1 - PROMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND CIVIL RIGHTS AT THE FEDERAL, TRIBAL, STATE, AND LOCAL LEVELS 5 - ENSURE CLEAN AND SAFE WATER FOR ALL COMMUNITIES 5.1 - ENSURE SAFE DRINKING WATER AND RELIABLE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE 1 - A CLEANER, HEALTHIER ENVIRONMENT 1.2 - PROVIDE FOR CLEAN AND SAFE WATER 2 - TAKE DECISIVE ACTION TO ADVANCE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND CIVIL RIGHTS 2.2 - EMBED ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND CIVIL RIGHTS INTO EPA’S PROGRAMS, POLICIES, AND ACTIVITIES 7 - ENSURE SAFETY OF CHEMICALS FOR PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT 7.2 - PROMOTE POLLUTION PREVENTION 6 - SAFEGUARD AND REVITALIZE COMMUNITIES 6.2 - REDUCE WASTE AND PREVENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION 6 - SAFEGUARD AND REVITALIZE COMMU

66.615 - Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program (EJ TCGM)

EPA Region 3: Philadelphia [EPA - RO]

Maryland United States

State-Wide

Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program (EJ TCGM) (EPA-R-OEJECR-OCS-23-03)

Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 24% from $42,000,000 to $52,000,000.