2024 Community Impact Grant
Long Island
Long Beach Latino Civic Association, Inc. $100,000
Pollution Mitigation Leads to Health Benefits
The "Pollution Mitigation Leads to Health Benefits" project represents a crucial step towards a healthier environment and improved quality of life for the residents of Long Beach. This project acknowledges the pressing reality of climate change, aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enhance the community’s resilience against climate-related impacts.
Starflower Experiences $70,100
Sustainable Wyandanch Interns
The “Sustainable Wyandanch Interns” project will build capacity for continuing with current projects and taking on new ones by training Sustainable Wyandanch Interns (high school students and some adults) to learn about Long Island, sustainability, and perform community projects to make a difference in their community.
New York City
Arverne By The Bay Community Center, Inc. $100,00
GreenTech HVAC Training Initiative
The “GreenTech HVAC Training Initiative,” spearheaded by Arverne By The Bay Community Center, Inc., is a comprehensive educational program designed to train individuals in the Rockaway Peninsula in the installation, maintenance, and operation of energy-efficient HVAC systems.
Newtown Creek Alliance, Inc. $99,954
T.I.D.A.L.S. (Transforming Industrial Developments into Active Living Shorelines) Fellowship Program
The “T.I.D.A.L.S. Fellowship” is a paid summer internship program for young adults ages 18-25 focused on researching the impacts of native habitat restoration in Newtown Creek.
The Bronx is Blooming $100,000
The Program for Leaders Advancing their Community's Environment – PLACE
The “The Program for Leaders Advancing their Community's Environment – PLACE” capacity-building program will enable The Bronx is Blooming (BiB) to expand and enhance its youth programming supporting seasonal green jobs, internship programs, caring for the urban forest, planting and stewarding native trees, and engaging in air quality monitoring research.
Human Impacts Institute $100,000
Urban Environmental Health Lab
The “Urban Environmental Health Lab” is designed to empower underrepresented communities in Brooklyn by addressing the capacity of local environmental justice organizations, artists, and youth leaders through workshops, fellowships, and collaborative projects.
Cooper Square Community Development $100,000
Promoting Lead-Safe Practices
The “Promoting Lead-Safe Practices” project will identify multiple sources of lead hazards in rental housing, educate residents about lead-related risks in rental housing, and/or promote lead-safe practices among property owners and contractors involved in residential construction.
We Stay/Nos Quedamos (NQ) $100,000
Nos Quedamos' South Bronx Resiliency Hubs: A community-led climate justice initiative
The “Nos Quedamos' South Bronx Resiliency Hub” initiative sited at two local community gardens and within the courtyard of Nos Quedamos' headquarters, will include solar canopies, rainwater harvesting systems, and broadband access establishing three local microgrids.
Outstanding Renewal Enterprises, Inc. $100,000
Food Security and Community Engagement
The “Food Security and Community Engagement” program will improve food security and reduce environmental harms for minority and low-income residents through environmental education, increased access to fresh food, building awareness, and engaging the community.
Rockaway Waterfront Alliance $100,000
Rockaway Shore Corps Dune Restoration
The “Rockaway Shore Corps Dune Restoration” project will close the loop on local dune restoration work, connecting the signature Shore Corps High School internship with the newly established Native Nursery, Seed Bank, and Educational Garden to create a secondary protective dune from Beach 19th to Beach 73rd St.
Fort Greene Park Conservancy, Inc. $100,000
Fort Greene Park Green Team
The “Fort Greene Park Green Team” program, for youth ages 14 to 19, will address environmental challenges in Fort Greene Park. Participants attend twice-weekly sessions, perform park maintenance, and share their work through community outreach.
Gowanus Canal Conservancy, Inc. $96,999
Gowanus Youth Environmental Stewardship Program
The “Gowanus Youth Environmental Stewardship Program” for youth ages 14-24, will create an environmental impact through stewardship in the Gowanus neighborhood and by engaging community members. Participants will gain environmental career awareness, skills, and motivation to pursue environmental careers.
Hudson Valley
Energy Justice Law and Policy Center $100,000
New Rochelle Environmental Justice Initiative
The “New Rochelle Environmental Justice Initiative” seeks to enhance and expand two key programs: the Air of Truth air quality and environmental justice campaign, and the Eco Ambassadors coastal marine science program. These programs support a comprehensive environmental justice effort targeting air and water quality by educating the public on findings, raising awareness, and developing solutions for clean and green infrastructure.
Newburgh Urban Farm and Food, Inc. $99,500
Changing the Culture of Food in the City of Newburgh
The “Changing the Culture of Food in the City of Newburgh” program will establish an outreach and training program that will bring the expertise and knowledge of the Downing Park Urban Farm directly into the neighborhoods to increase food production in ways that address the lack of space and decreasing ingestion of lead and other heavy metal contaminants.
Poughkeepsie Farm Project $100,000
Learning with the Land Project
The “Learning with the Land Project” will move the Poughkeepsie community towards food sovereignty through a research project that will distribute gardening materials and recipe kits, support school and community gardens, and develop educational tools through relationship-building with the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican community.
Groundwater Hudson Valley $99,971
The Green Parking Lot Research & Demonstration Project in SW Yonkers
“The Green Parking Lot Research & Demonstration Project in SW Yonkers” project would move forward a key objective of the 2023 Yonkers Climate Action Plan (YCAP) by exploring the potential of transforming parking lots with acres of impervious surfaces in the community through sustainable design practices to reduce flooding, improve water quality, and mitigate heat islands.
Capital District
Radix Ecological Sustainability Center $100,000
Ecojustice Tree Nursery
The “Ecojustice Tree Nursery” program at Radix will begin a youth-run community tree nursery for the purpose of growing future street trees for planting in Albany's South End and other disadvantaged communities.
Central New York
NEHDA, Inc. $78,745
Green & Healthy Homes & Lead Safety
The “Green & Healthy Homes & Lead Safety” program will allow NEHDA to offer a "Lead Safe & Healthy Homes Workshop Program" to three unique populations (tenants, Landlords/Owner-Occupants, and New Americans) and continue incorporating the Green and Healthy Homes model to promote lead-safe cleaning and green and healthy home practices.
Southern Tier
Binghamton Regional Sustainability $100,000
Binghamton Community Power Phase II: Clean Energy Empowerment for Environmental Justice Neighborhoods
The “Clean Energy Empowerment for Environmental Justice Neighborhoods” project will help residents understand how the energy systems in their homes work, provide guidance to navigate energy improvement programs, advocate for themselves with a utility, and provide an understanding of clean energy career opportunities.
Western New York
Open Buffalo $100,000
Ecological Justice and Resilience for the East Side of Buffalo
The “Ecological Justice and Resilience for the East Side of Buffalo” project extends Open Buffalo's ongoing collaborations with the City of Buffalo Sewer Authority to identify soil toxins and lead pipes in East Buffalo homes, aiming to gather data for public awareness and encourage remediation efforts.
Green Options Buffalo $99,987
Equitable Transportation for Buffalo's People, Places, and Policies
The “Equitable Transportation for Buffalo's People, Places, and Policies” project is a neighborhood-level approach that will serve Buffalo’s lower west side, focusing on “People, Places, and Policies” to comprehensively improve quality of life through education, community outreach and engagement, connecting people to transit, and increasing access to opportunities.
