Community Builders of Color Coalition
As part of our advocacy efforts, the Alliance leads a Community Builders of Color Coalition made up of 19 national BIPOC organizations urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ensure that minority communities can benefit equally from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund as authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act.
About the Community Builders of Color Coalition
Our Mission: The Community Builders of Color Coalition is a national network of financial institutions and advocacy organizations led by people of color working together to ensure low-income and disadvantaged communities can equitably benefit from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
Our Vision: To help eradicate the disproportionate impact of climate change on low-income and disadvantaged communities by sufficiently capitalizing and equipping BIPOC-led organizations that are deeply rooted in and serving disenfranchised populations.
Members of the Coalition:
- African American Alliance of CDFI CEOs
- African American Credit Union Coalition
- American Association of Blacks in Energy
- Black Community Developers Group
- Inclusiv
- The Chisholm Legacy Project
- Community Development Bankers Association
- Hip Hop Caucus
- National Bankers Association
- National CAPACD
- National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders
- National Fair Housing Alliance
- National Urban League
- Oweesta Corporation
- Opportunity Finance Network
- Prosperity Now
- Reimagine Main Street
- US Black Chambers
- Urban Strategies, Inc.
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Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund
The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund is a first-of-its-kind program that will provide competitive grants to mobilize financing and leverage private capital for clean energy and climate projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions – with an emphasis on projects that benefit low-income and disadvantaged communities.
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Press Room
- Press Release – The Alliance & NALCAB. 10-2022
- The Alliance Comment Letter to EPA. 10-2022
- Press Release – Announcement of Coalition. 12-2022
- The Coalition’s response to the EPA’s GHGRF Initial Guidance Design – 2.14.2023
- The Alliance on Substantial Magazine: A $27B Opportunity to Prioritize Environmental Equality
- The Alliance on POLITICO: Community development groups jockey with green banks to lead $27 billion fund [Subscription required] Click here to read the full article.
- Press Release – OFN Joins the Community Builders of Color Coalition
- Press Release – Hip Hop Caucus Joins the Community Builders of Color Coalition
- Press Release – Community Builders of Color Coalition Announces Justice Climate Fund
- Press Release – The African American Alliance of CDFI CEOs’ Justice Climate Fund Receives $5 Million Grant from the Waverley Street Foundation
- Banking Exchange: Financial Service Groups Back Biden’s Environmental Justice Drive
- The Messenger: The EPA Doesn’t Have To Reinvent the Wheel to Fund Low-Income Communities
- Wall Street Journal: EPA Launches Green Bank for Climate Funding in Low-Income Areas
- EcoWurd Interview with Lenwood V. Long, Sr.
- RMI Feature: A Multi-Billion Dollar EPA Fund Is Delivering the Energy Transition to Overlooked Communities
- Triangle Business Journal: Rallying for Green Funds – Justice Climate Fund
- How Lenwood V Long Is Helping to Promote Sustainability and Climate Justice
- Washington Post: One year in, climate law tests Biden’s environmental justice pledge
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Resources
- GGRF 1-sheet -12-2023
- CBCC-Data-11-2023
- GGRF-Fact-Sheet & summary of EPA’s Initial GHGRF Program Design released on 2-15-2023.
For more information, please contact our VP of Policy & Research, Ryan Gremillion at [email protected]