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The Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) Program Community Engagement Steering Committee (“CE Committee”) comprises resident-led and resident-focused organizations working in the climate, sustainability, energy, housing, economic development, and community development and planning sectors from the Philadelphia Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). As partners in the delivery of the CPRG program, the CE Committee will collaborate and assist the CPRG Planning Team in understanding how the region’s Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (CCAP) can be implemented in their communities, developing community engagement events for residents of Low-Income Disadvantaged Communities (LIDAC), and advancing a carbon-free, equitable, resilient, and sustainable region.
Planning Area and Focus on LIDACS
The CPRG Community Engagement Steering Committee brings together community groups and community-focused organizations across the Philadelphia MSA with established relationships with residents in low-income and disadvantaged communities identified in the EPA’s Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool. Organizations selected to participate on the Steering Committee must be resident-led or resident-focused organizations within the Philadelphia Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) and work in the climate, sustainability, energy, housing, economic development, and community development or planning sectors.
The Philadelphia MSA includes the following (4) states and (12) counties:
Pennsylvania: Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia
New Jersey: Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer, Salem
Maryland: Cecil
Delaware: New Castle
Due to the large size of the planning area, the CBO Steering Committee is unable to include organizations from every municipality that has LIDACs identified by the EPA. The committee's member organizations should have relationships with communities with the largest percentage of low-income and disadvantaged census tracts (*).
Goals
Understand community priorities and needs
Develop and deepen relationships with community partners to foster future collaboration and engagement for CCAP planning and implementation
Collaborate with CBOs in the development of the Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (CCAP)
Mission
The Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) Program Community Engagement Steering Committee (“CE Committee”) comprises resident-led and resident-focused organizations working in the climate, sustainability, energy, housing, economic development, and community development and planning sectors from the Philadelphia Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). As partners in the delivery of the CPRG program, the CE Committee will collaborate and assist the CPRG Planning Team in understanding how the region’s Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (CCAP) can be implemented in their communities, developing community engagement events for residents of Low-Income Disadvantaged Communities (LIDAC), and advancing a carbon-free, equitable, resilient, and sustainable region.
Planning Area and Focus on LIDACS
The CPRG Community Engagement Steering Committee brings together community groups and community-focused organizations across the Philadelphia MSA with established relationships with residents in low-income and disadvantaged communities identified in the EPA’s Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool. Organizations selected to participate on the Steering Committee must be resident-led or resident-focused organizations within the Philadelphia Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) and work in the climate, sustainability, energy, housing, economic development, and community development or planning sectors.
The Philadelphia MSA includes the following (4) states and (12) counties:
Pennsylvania: Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia
New Jersey: Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer, Salem
Maryland: Cecil
Delaware: New Castle
Due to the large size of the planning area, the CBO Steering Committee is unable to include organizations from every municipality that has LIDACs identified by the EPA. The committee's member organizations should have relationships with communities with the largest percentage of low-income and disadvantaged census tracts (*).
Goals
Understand community priorities and needs
Develop and deepen relationships with community partners to foster future collaboration and engagement for CCAP planning and implementation
Collaborate with CBOs in the development of the Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (CCAP)
CPRG Community Engagement Steering Committee has finished this stage
Steering Committee In Session
CPRG Community Engagement Steering Committee is currently at this stage
The Steering Committee meets every other month from October 2024 to June 2025.
Steering Committee Engagement Completed
this is an upcoming stage for CPRG Community Engagement Steering Committee
Publish Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (CCAP)
this is an upcoming stage for CPRG Community Engagement Steering Committee
Submit final Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (CCAP) to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by December 1, 2025. Publish final CCAP report to dvrpc.org/cprg.
