Communities for a Better Environment Grant

Organization - Communities for a Better Environment
Grant Amount - $608,761
Foundation - California Endowment
Grant Purpose - Community Health and Clean Energy Project: To support community organizing, leadership development and policy advocacy efforts to decrease the health disparities associated with cumulative impact, or exposure to multiple environmental health hazards, with an emphasis on toxins and pollutants emitted by oil refineries, in the predominantly minority, low-income communities of southeast Los Angeles.


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