Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Awardee Best Practices for Equity and Governance Pledge

The objective of the GGRF Equity and Governance Best Practices Alliance is to ensure that environmental justice and community-based organizations, representing and made up of frontline communities, are able to have decision-making power in how and where the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) is deployed so that impacted communities are directly benefited.


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Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Best Practices for Equity and Governance: A Guide for NCIF and CCIA Applicants

Based on EPA's guidance, this Guide maps the principles in the Pledge to recommendations for key sections within the applications for the National Clean Investment Fund (NCIF) and the Clean Communities Investment Accelerator (CCIA) competitions.


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The Pledge

The Best Practices Alliance calls on all GGRF applicants to publicly commit to robust governance structures and processes that center equity and environmental justice and provide meaningful accountability to local communities and the public, and specifically, the practices described in the Pledge.


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Initial Organizers & Core Partners

Just Solutions Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund
Center for Biological Diversity Center for Popular Democracy
The Climate + Clean Energy Equity Fund Climate and Community Project
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Emerald Cities Collaborative Natural Resources Defense Council
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Organizational Endorsements

7 Directions of Service Green New Deal Network
A Just Harvest Greenbank Associates
Action for the Climate Emergency Hip Hop Caucus
Adasina Social Capital Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Apexx Adams Transportation Clean Energy Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA)
Appalachian Voices ISAIAH
Asian Pacific Environmental Network Kinetic Communities Consulting
Black Hills Clean Water Alliance Local Clean Energy Alliance
Building Electrification Institute Long Island Progressive Coalition
California Reinvestment Coalition Micah Six Eight Mission
California Environmental Justice Alliance Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition
CASA MN350 
Center for Coalfield Justice National Consumer Law Center
Citizens Awareness Network National Partnership for New Americans - Climate Justice Collaborative
Clean Energy Action NDN Collective
Climate Critical Network for a Sustainable Tomorrow
Climate Justice Alliance New Urban Mobility Alliance (NUMO)
Communities First Infrastructure Alliance People’s Action
Cooperative Energy Futures People’s Solar Energy Fund
Dream.Org Progressive Maryland
Elevate PVEC Member Voices
Energy Allies  Settegast Heights Redevelopment Corporation Northeast Community
Environmental Protection Network Solar United Neighbors
Evergreen Action Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation (SOUL)
Front and Centered TakeAction Minnesota
Future Nexus Taproot Earth
Georgia Conservation Voters Toxic Free NC
Georgia Interfaith Power and Light Unidos MN
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance United Women in Faith
Green & Healthy Homes Initiative, Inc  

 


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