Communities for a Better Environment
For General Operating Support
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Amount$56,250
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Program
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Date Awarded7/15/2020
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Overview
Founded in 1978, the nonprofit Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) is one of the preeminent environmental justice organizations in the nation. CBE’s mission is to build people’s power in California’s communities of color and low-income communities with organizing skills; leadership training; and legal, scientific, and technical assistance to achieve environmental health and justice by preventing and reducing pollution, and building green, healthy, and sustainable communities and environments.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.cbecal.org
Address
6325 Pacific Boulevard, Suite 300, Huntington Park, CA, 90255-4100, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for the Clean Energy & Climate Justice Program
Communities for a Better Environment conducts state and local grassroots organizing, policy advocacy, and legal work in support of cleaner electricity and transportation. Its Clean Energy program will lend community-based voices to efforts promoting increased renewable energy. It will also counter utilities seeking to build new fossil fuel plants in California, and oil companies trying to dismantle the state’s global warming programs.
for the Climate and Energy Justice program
Communities for a Better Environment conducts state and local grassroots organizing, policy advocacy, and legal work in support of cleaner electricity and transportation. Its Program will lend a much-needed community-based voice to promote increased renewable energy; it will also counter utilities seeking to build new fossil fuel plants in California and oil companies trying to dismantle the state’s global warming programs.
