Resources

These resources are designed and selected to help support your community and environmental health projects. We are continually updating this list, so check back often. 

If you have questions about any of these resources or are seeking one that isn’t included, please let us know by completing this technical assistance request form or emailing us at cehe@uw.edu.

Community Mapping Using EPA's EJScreen Demo (See Mapping resources below if you are having difficulty accessing EPA's EJScreen Tool)
Exploring the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) (See Mapping resources below if you are having difficulty accessing CEQ's CEJST)
Surveys: What They Are, When to Use Them
Philanthropy Northwest Thriving Communities Grant Program
Best Practices for Environmental Data Collection: Community Air Monitoring
The Intersection of Tribal Sovereignty, Offshore Wind, and Renewable Energy
Tyonek's Solar Journey: Developing a Solar and Battery Microgrid in Rural Alaska
Sustainable Energy Solutions: An Overview of the Qualco Anaerobic Digester and Tulalip Microgrid Initiatives
Developing Sustainable Indigenous and Researcher Collaborations to Address Climate-Migration and Cultural Impacts of Environmental Changes
  • Rooting in Values: Communicating Your Organization’s Mission and Vision. This four-page visual resource shares an overview of how your organizational vision, mission and values can inform action plans for a project. This resource also shares sample language and examples to communicate how a project connects to your organization’s mission and vision in grant applications.
  • Template for Reviewing Funding Opportunities. This two-page fillable template is designed to help you screen potential funding opportunities to see if they’re a fit for your organization and project. The template guides you through important information to take away from funding announcements and questions you should answer before deciding to apply for a grant.  
  • Ideas to Action Workbook. This workbook provides support in building an outline for community and environmental health projects, or to move from ideas to action. This resource provides a series of exercises and activities to help you think through what this project could look like and how to communicate it to an outside audience. We have versions of the workbook in different languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Somali, Amharic, Russian, Tagalog, and Vietnamese. Please contact us if interested in these language versions of our I2A workbook. We welcome inquiries on hosting Ideas to Action Workshops for specific population groups.
  • Fiscal Sponsorship: A Guide for Grassroots Groups. This guide gives an overview of fiscal sponsorship, a formal partnership between a nonprofit organization and a grassroots group or project that provides support to groups that may not have formal nonprofit status.
  • Keeping Your Family Safe: Lead in Aviation Fuel Factsheet. This one-page factsheet provides an overview of the health impacts of leaded aviation fuel for children and where to learn more about this topic. This resource also shares some "fast facts" about leaded aviation fuel in Washington State and King County.  
  • Air Quality and Wildfire Smoke Factsheets. These one-page factsheets on accessing air quality information and information on reducing the impact of wildfire smoke were developed for a community event in the Yakima Valley.
  • Demonstration of DIY Box Fan Filter. This demonstration video was developed for a community event to show the impact of a DIY box fan filter on indoor particulate air quality levels.
  • Quality Assurance Project Plans (QAPPs) for Tribes. A QAPP is document that describes your plan for collecting environmental data that's required and must be approved by EPA for projects. Resources from EPA Region 10 on preparing a QAPP for Tribes, include templates and tools and EPA Region 10's Presentation on Developing a Successful Project Plan.
  • EPA EJScreen This is an initial reconstruction of Version 2.3 of EPA’s EJScreen. Public access to the tool from EPA was discontinued on February 5, 2025. The tool was re-created and made publicly accessible by The Public Environmental Data Partners.
  • Washington Environmental Health Disparities Map An interactive mapping tool showing environmental and health risks by census tract to identify disparities and improve equity. Measures include ozone, PM2.5, hazardous waste, poverty, and unemployment.
  • Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) | NDC Partnership The currently available version is an unofficial copy of the CEJST Tool, and some links and text may incorrectly suggest that this site is affiliated with the US Government.