Request for Proposals: EPA's "Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Cooperative Agreement Program (EJCPS)"

The Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Cooperative Agreement Program | US EPA

The Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving (EJCPS) Cooperative Agreement Program provides financial assistance to eligible organizations working to address local environmental or public health issues in their communities.  The program assists recipients in building collaborative partnerships with other stakeholders (e.g., local businesses and industry, local government, medical service providers, academia, etc.) to develop solutions to environmental or public health issue(s) at the community level.

The EJCPS Program anticipates awarding approximately $30,000,000 of Inflation Reduction Act funding through 83 cooperative agreements, organized in two tracks of funding, as follows: 

  •  $25,000,000 for CBOs proposing projects for up to $500,000 each. Approximately 50 awards for up $500,000 each are anticipated under this track. 
  • $5,000,000 for qualifying small CBOs with 5 or fewer full-time employees proposing projects for up to $150,000 each. For more details about this opportunity, please review closely the “Small Community-based Nonprofit Set Aside”. Approximately 33 awards for up to $150,000 each are anticipated under this track.  

Cooperative agreements will be funded for a three-year performance period.

Deadline:  April 10, 2023

More information about the Request for Proposals can be found here

EPA Recorded Webinar on this RFA (January 24, 2023)
Use Passcode:  85564988

Slides from the January 24, 2023 EJCS Webinar (pdf)