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Boulder County approves Climate Equity Fund contract amendment, endorses community‑led grant rules
Summary
The Board of County Commissioners approved a contract amendment with JSI and endorsed a Community Creation Committee (CCC) blueprint to launch a Climate Equity Fund that prioritizes frontline communities; the board set an application window for Aug. 1–Sept. 1 and signaled phased disbursement beginning January.
Boulder County commissioners voted July 8 to amend a county contract with consultant JSI and to endorse recommendations from a six‑member Community Creation Committee (CCC) establishing a Climate Equity Fund designed to resource communities disproportionately affected by climate change.
Bridal Fleishman, senior climate strategist in the Office of Sustainability, Climate Action and Resilience, told the board the fund is intended to center frontline communities and to use participatory grantmaking. "At its core, the Climate Equity Fund seeks to resource those most disproportionately affected by climate change,…
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