(AGENPARL) – lun 17 giugno 2024 Issued: Jun 17, 2024 (2:13pm EDT)
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EPA Awards $1.5 million to Support Promoting Readiness and Enhancing
Proficiency to Advance Reporting and Data Program
EPA also seeks applications for second round funding opportunity for up to $2
million total over three years
WASHINGTON –Today June 17, US Environmental Protection Agency is announcing
it recently awarded $1.5 million to three organizations through the Promoting
Readiness and Enhancing Proficiency to Advance Reporting and Data (PREPARED)
program. This will provide technical assistance to help enhance EPA grant
recipients’ ability to generate data and information necessary to evaluate
program outcomes and improve the ability to understand impacts for
communities.
Currently, the agency is also seeking additional proposals to further support
and enhance the data, reporting and evidence-building capacity of EPA grant
recipients representing small, underserved and Tribal communities. Data,
reporting and evidence-building are vitally important elements for EPA grant
programs. However, a number of EPA grant recipients face capacity challenges
in engaging in these activities. Many small, underserved communities and
Tribes that are eligible for EPA grants sometimes choose not to apply for
funding opportunities in part because of these capacity challenges. Through
PREPARED program cooperative agreements, EPA seeks to fund technical
assistance providers to equip communities with strategies, tools and training
that enhance their capacity for data, reporting and evidence-building.
To support these efforts, EPA recently awarded:
$500,000 to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.  The University of
Massachusetts Dartmouth project will build community capacity on
evidence-based approaches to advance data dissemination, reporting, and
integration of lived community experiences for EPA and State Revolving Fund
(Clean and Drinking Water Programs) applicants and grantees.
$500,000 to Palmetto Futures.  The Palmetto Futures project will provide
comprehensive capacity-building support to community-based organizations in
the Gullah Geechee Corridor. Palmetto Futures’ initiative will focus on
bolstering local organizations’ capabilities to manage EPA projects by
improving data proficiency and project reporting. Additionally, this project
will conduct community engagement with organizations in the Gullah Geechee
Corridor in coordination with their partner organization, the Gullah Geechee
Chamber Foundation.
$500,000 to New Growth Innovation Network. The New Growth Innovation Network
project will build individual, organizational, and collective capacity for
would-be recipients of EPA funds in small, underserved, and/or Tribal
Communities on data, reporting and evidence-building so that they are equipped
to apply for future or current EPA grant opportunities.
More information on each awardee is available on the PREPARED website.
EPA is committed to implementing strategies designed to help small and
underserved communities address data and reporting requirements for EPA
grants. Consistent with longstanding agency policy for working with Tribal
communities, EPA is committed to working with federally recognized Tribes in
enhancing capacity to carry out program responsibilities affecting Tribal
communities and the health and welfare of the populace, including capacity for
data, reporting and evidence-building.
EPA intends to award up to an additional $2 million over three years to as
many as four recipients. The Notice of Funding Opportunity is now posted on
the grants.gov website under Funding Opportunity Announcement EPA-I-R-OCFO-02.
Applications are due July 29, 2024, by 11:59 PM Eastern Time. More information
about this funding opportunity is also available on the PREPARED website.
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