Fourteen smaller environmental justice organizations from around the United States have begun to receive money under the Justice40 initiative.
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The Justice40 initiative is a Biden administration pledge to improve the environment in disadvantaged communities and help them prepare for climate change. It promises to funnel 40% of all investments in climate and environment to communities that live with the highest environmental burdens — diesel soot, lead water pipes, lack of access to green spaces to name a few.
Wilkins said her group plans to keep working to increase access to solar energy in affordable housing and create jobs installing and maintaining solar panels with the $200,000 they were awarded from Department of Energy. The accelerator worked to raise the groups' awareness of resources available to them from federal agencies and prepare them to apply for grants.
from CalFire for a forest restoration project in nearby Sonoma County using application materials they created while participating in the accelerator.Just under half of the groups that got the technical support received funding of some kind, whether from federal, state, local or philanthropic sources, and winning $8 million in total.
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