OUR MISSION
The Building Resilience, Innovation, Sustainability, and Assistance for the Environment Center (BRISA Center for the Environment) will give your organization or group free hands-on help, training, resources, and support towards environmental and energy resilience, innovation, sustainability, and assistance. We serve AZ, NV, CA, HI, and the US Affiliated Pacific Islands, including Native American tribes and Indigenous communities in these areas.
GRANT NAVIGATION
Guidance in finding, applying for, and managing grants
COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP
Building advocacy and leadership through resource fairs, student internships and Community Champions
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Providing environmental health, climate, and renewable energy expertise
OUR TEAM
The BRISA Center for the Environment is one of 16 centers in the EPA’s Environmental Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Center (EJ TCTAC) Program and was established to serve Region 9. The BRISA Center for the Environment" is powered by a network of collaborative coalition of academic and community-based partners with extensive networks with state and local government agencies, Tribal nations, Area Health Education Centers (AHECs), state offices of rural health, primary care associations and other community-based organizations across the region.
