The request for proposals may be found here:  The Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Cooperative Agreement Program | US EPA

Deadline:  April 14, 2023

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.

NOTE: EPA cannot extend the performance periods for EJCPS assistance agreements utilizing Inflation Reduction Act fundings beyond three years.

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

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

This post was edited by John Birks at March 8, 2023 11:38 AM MST

I've carefully read through the EJCPS Application Instructions and developed a proposal outline and template for the APPLICATION WORK PLAN, which is the body of the proposal.  Throughout the document, I provide input on how to fill out the many sections of the proposal and provide pre-made tables in Word to make it easy to fill in things like the Timeline, Budget and Logic Plan.  Basically, you can take this document, fill in the various sections, deleting my comments along the way, and have a final APPLICATION WORKPLAN.  It also includes a description, along with some pre-made forms for other documents that you will need to upload on Grants.gov.  However, be sure the read the EJCPS RFA and EJCPS Application Instructions for yourself.  

Here is the Microsoft Word template:

EJCPS Proposal Template

This post was edited by John Birks at March 1, 2023 11:01 AM MST