These resources are designed and selected to help support your environmental and energy justice projects. We are continually updating this list, so check back often.
If you have questions about any of these resources or are seeking one that isn’t included, please let us know by completing this technical assistance request form, emailing us at cehe@uw.edu, or calling us at 206-543-0608.
Our resources
Webinars
Data Webinar Series
Community Mapping Using EPA's EJScreen (EPA EJScreen Demo)
Exploring the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST)
Environmental and Energy Justice in Tribal Communities Webinar Series
The Intersection of Tribal Sovereignty, Offshore Wind, and Renewable Energy
Tyonek's Solar Journey: Developing a Solar and Battery Microgrid in Rural Alaska
Documents and other media
Rooting in Values: Communicating Your Organization’s Mission and Vision
This four-page visual resource shares an overview of how your organizational vision, mission and values can inform action plans for a project. This resource also shares sample language and examples to communicate how a project connects to your organization’s mission and vision in grant applications.
Template for Reviewing Funding Opportunities
This two-page fillable template is designed to help you screen potential funding opportunities to see if they’re a fit for your organization and project. The template guides you through important information to take away from funding announcements and questions you should answer before deciding to apply for a grant.
Ideas to Action Workbook
This workbook provides support in buildling an outline for an environmental justice project for your community, or to move from ideas to action. This resource provides a series of exercises and activities to help you think through what this project could look like and how to communicate it to an outside audience.
Fiscal Sponsorship: A Guide for Grassroots Groups
This guide gives an overview of fiscal sponsorship, a formal partnership between a nonprofit organization and a grassroots group or project that provides support to groups that may not have formal nonprofit status.
Keeping Your Family Safe: Lead in Aviation Fuel Factsheet
This one-page factsheet provides an overview of the health impacts of leaded aviation fuel for children and where to learn more about this topic. This resource also shares some "fast facts" about leaded aviation fuel in Washington State and King County.
Air Quality and Wildfire Smoke Factsheets
These one-page factsheets on accessing air quality information and information on reducing the impact of wildfire smoke were developed for a community event in the Yakima Valley.
Demonstration of DIY Box Fan Filter
This demonstration video was developed for a community event to show the impact of a DIY box fan filter on indoor particulate air quality levels.
Developing a StoryMap for your Community
A StoryMap is a website that allows you to tell a story about your communty using multple forms of media, including maps. This interactive resource developed by CEHE illustrates the features available with a free account on storymaps.com, which you can use to develop a StoryMap for your community.
Other resources
Environmental justice resources
Environmental Justice Principles [ download ]
Jemez Principles [ download ]
Principles of Working Together [ download ]
Movement Generation Just Transition Framework [ link ]; Zine unpacking framework in more detail [ download ]
Indigenous Environmental Networks Principles for a Just Transition [ download ]
EPA Environmental Justice Clearinghouse [ link ]
Environmental justice mapping resources
EPA Inflation Reduction Act Disadvantaged Communities Map [ link ]
EPA EJScreen [ link ]
Washington Environmental Health Disparities Map [ link ]
Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool [ link ]
Capacity building and grant writing resources
Community Toolbox [ link ]
Training Resources for the Environmental Community [ link ]
Nonprofit Association of Washington [ link ]
501 Commons [ link ]
Funding databases
EPA Clearinghouse for Environmental Finance [ link ]
America’s Federal Funding Opportunities and Resources for Decarbonization (AFFORD) [ link ]
Alaska Federal Funding [ link ]
Justice40 Accelerator [ link ]