The Diversity and Environmental Justice Grant Program is an internal funding opportunity for staff to advance projects within programs or departments that increase diversity of participants and/or prioritize equity and environmental justice in their practices and outcomes.

Recipients use funds to collaborate with justice-oriented organizations and with communities that bear the disproportionate burden of environmental pollution. Grants support two to five projects each year.

The grants have supported a variety of activities, including partnering with local artists, storytellers and community leaders to facilitate a dialogue on clean energy and climate change; equipping people who live near oil and gas fields with information to identify and respond to potential methane pollution; and translating important health information into the languages spoken by people who bear the greatest burden of environmental hazards.

Learn more about diversity, equity and inclusion at EDF