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Report: $500,000 Water Equity Fund supported community grants; University of Oregon subawards reached tribes, immigrant and frontline communities
Summary
The Joint Committee of Education received a report on May 13 on distribution and outcomes of a $500,000 one-time appropriation from SB 5506, administered through HECC to the University of Oregon's Just Futures Institute and used for community water-equity subawards and related work.
The Joint Committee of Education received a report on May 13 on use of a $500,000 one-time general-fund appropriation from 2023 (SB 5506) that directed the Higher Education Coordinating Commission (HECC) to support the University of Oregon's Just Futures Institute to research and fund water-equity work in environmental-justice communities.
Alej Reyes Santos, professor of practice at the University of Oregon and director of the Water Equity Fund, told the committee the appropriation primarily funded community subawards and that award decisions came from a selection committee that included non-applicant members who each received $1,000 to participate. "Water equity, meaning that we all have access to clean, healthy water regardless of our income, where…
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