CFDA#
66.110
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Funder Type
Federal Government
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IT Classification
B - Readily funds technology as part of an award
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Authority
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Summary
The Healthy Communities Grant Program was launched in 2003 and supports EPA's mission by integrating many EPA New England programs including Air Quality Outreach, Asthma and Indoor Air, Children's Environmental Health, Clean, Green and Healthy Schools Initiative, Energy Efficiency Program, Environmental Justice Program, Pollution Prevention, Sustainable Materials Management, Toxics and Pesticides, and Water Infrastructure (Stormwater, Wastewater, and Drinking Water). The goal of the program is to combine available resources and best identify competitive projects that will achieve measurable environmental and public health results in communities across New England. Eligible applicants are invited to apply to EPA New England for funding consideration under this competitive grant program. The Healthy Communities Grant Program anticipates awarding approximately 15 cooperative agreements from these project applications in 2023.
The Healthy Communities Grant Program is EPA New England's main grant program to work directly with communities to reduce environmental risks to protect and improve human health and the quality of life, advance resilience, and preserve/restore important ecosystems. The Healthy Communities Grant Program will achieve these goals through identifying and funding projects that:
- Target resources to benefit communities at risk [areas needing to create community resilience, environmental justice areas of potential concern, and/or sensitive populations (e.g., children, elderly, tribes, urban and rural residents, and others at increased risk)].
- Assess, understand, and reduce environmental and human health risks.
- Increase collaboration through partnerships and community-based projects.
- Build institutional and community capacity to understand and solve environmental and human health problems.
- Achieve measurable environmental and human health benefits.
History of Funding
2020 project summaries are available to view here: https://www3.epa.gov/region1/eco/uep/grants_2020hc.html.
Additional Information
The mission of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment (air, water, and land) upon which life depends. EPA's purpose is to ensure that:
- All Americans are protected from significant risks to human health and the environment where they live, learn and work.
- National efforts to reduce environmental risk are based on the best available scientific information.
- Federal laws protecting human health and the environment are enforced fairly and effectively.
- Environmental protection is an integral consideration in U.S. policies concerning natural resources, human health, economic growth, energy, transportation, agriculture, industry, and international trade, and these factors are similarly considered in establishing environmental policy.
- All parts of society (e.g., communities, individuals, businesses, state and local governments, tribal governments) have access to accurate information to effectively participate in managing human health and environmental risks.
- Environmental protection contributes to making our communities and ecosystems diverse, sustainable and economically productive.
- The United States plays a leadership role in working with other nations to protect the global environment.
For-profit organizations such as colleges, universities, trade schools, and hospitals are ineligible.
Eligibility Details
EPA Region 1 serves Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Tribal Lands.
Eligible applicants include State and Local Governments, public nonprofit institutions/organizations, private nonprofit institutions/organizations, quasi-public nonprofit institutions/organizations, Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments, K-12 schools or school districts; and non-profit organizations (e.g., grassroots and/or community-based organizations).
Deadline Details
Applications are to be submitted by May 26, 2023. A similar deadline is anticipated annually.
Award Details
The Healthy Communities Grant Program anticipates awarding approximately 15 cooperative agreements of up to $40,000 each in 2023. All Target Program Areas have a combined estimated funding of up to $500,000. All project periods are two years, performance period will start no earlier than October 1, 2023. Cost sharing or matching is not required.
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