The Art of ARC: Tips for Crafting and Submitting a Brownfields Grant Application in FY2025
The FY2025 EPA Assessment, Revolving Loan, and Cleanup (ARC) Grants Competition is open!
Join EPA Region 9, the Center for Creative Land Recycling, and past successful EPA grantees to learn more about this year’s competition, hear from entities who have been through the application process, and get insider tips that will help you master the art of the ARC. This session is not meant to be a repeat of EPA’s Guideline Overview webinars, so we recommend that you attend those for a deep dive into the FY2025 guideline specifics. Instead, in Art of the ARC we’ll discuss common challenges and strategies for overcoming them, reveal insider tips for making your application stand out, and outline how to engage effectively with EPA and CCLR during the solicitation.
In many ways MARC grant writing is more of an art than a science. Let us help you pick your color palette and refine your brush strokes! Join us, Wednesday, October 2nd at 1:00pm PT.
Devyn Rainwater is a Senior Program Associate for CCLR and serves as a project lead for various programs including the USEPA R9 Vacant to Vibrant outreach effort and an equity-focused learning module with Groundwork USA. She supports CCLR’s land-reuse Technical Assistance delivery for EPA R9 both as a partner to EPA and the Center for Community Energy and Environmental Justice (CCEEJ). Devyn’s passion for environmental justice and equity began at UC Santa Cruz, where she studied environmental and social justice and co-founded the Global Environmental Justice Journal.
Ignacio Dayrit coordinates CCLR’s technical assistance program for redevelopment projects. Ignacio is a redevelopment expert having spent 20 years with the City of Emeryville’s Redevelopment Agency, where he was responsible for the city’s Brownfield Pilot Project. He has over 30 years of experience in public sector development including: fiscal and financial analysis, public debt financing, feasibility analyses, and urban design. Ignacio was instrumental in the City’s redevelopment of hundreds of acres of blighted, contaminated property. He holds a BS in Architecture from the University of the Philippines and an MCP from The University of California at Berkeley.
Brooklyn James is a project officer in the Toxics and Brownfields Section at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9. She recently earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering from the University of California, Merced. Her research focused on environmental justice and equity issues with an emphasis on food-energy-water systems for historically underserved communities. Before joining the EPA, Brooklyn was a pioneer in the Carbon Cleanup Initiative Fellowship Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where she explored carbon capture and storage capacity in California. In the Brownfields program, Brooklyn is a part of the Vacant to Vibrant outreach effort to connect with new communities with environmental justice concerns.
