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The People’s Justice40+ Community Benefit Playbook

The People’s Justice40+ Community Benefit Playbook offers low income, rural, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), frontline, and fenceline communities, and community-based organizations that serve these communities, guidance for developing Community Benefit Plans (CBP) that leverage the Justice40 Initiative and the climate, economic, and infrastructure investments of major federal spending bills–such as the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act–to ensure that these federal investments benefit the communities that need them the most. This Playbook is also applicable to other state and local government funded climate, economic, and infrastructure investments that will also be necessary to achieve environmental reparations, build climate resilience, and address health and wealth disparities within low income, rural, BIPOC, frontline and fenceline communities.

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Organization: Emerald Cities
Resource Type: Toolkit
Topic: DEI & Anti-Oppression, Indigenous Sovereignty

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