The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking applications for its Healthy Communities Grant Program to combine available resources and best identify competitive projects that will achieve measurable environmental and public health results in communities across New England.
Donor Name: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/26/2023
Size of the Grant: $40,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
The Healthy Communities Grant Program is a competitive grant program for EPA New England to fund work directly with communities to support EPA’s mission to reduce environmental risks, protect and improve human health and improve the quality of life. The Healthy Communities Grant Program will achieve these goals through identifying and funding projects that:
- Target resources to benefit communities at risk [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.
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.
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 their 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.
Target Program Areas
- Capacity Building on Environmental and/or Public Health Issues;
- Clean, Green, and Healthy Schools;
- Energy Efficiency;
- Healthy Indoor Environments;
- Healthy Outdoor Environments;
- Pollution Prevention; and
- Sustainable Materials Management
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $500,000
- Award Ceiling: $40,000
Project Period
The project period will start no earlier than October 1, 2023 and can last for a one or two-year period.
Eligible Applicants
In accordance with CFDA 66.110, eligible applicants for awards under this announcement 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). Applicants need not be physically located within the boundaries of the EPA regional office to be eligible to apply for funding, but must propose projects that affect the states, tribes, and territories within Region 1. Private businesses, federal agencies, and individuals are not eligible to be grant recipients. However, they are encouraged to work in partnership with eligible applicants on projects.
Threshold Eligibility Criteria
To qualify as eligible projects under this solicitation, proposed projects from eligible applicants as defined above must meet the threshold eligibility criteria listed below.
Projects must:
- be located in and/or directly benefit one or more of the Target Investment Areas within Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and/or tribal lands in New England and
- identify how the proposed project will achieve measurable environmental and public health results in one or more of the Target Program Areas.
- Applications must substantially comply with the application submission instructions and application content requirements set forth in Section IV or else they will be rejected.
- Applications that request more than $40,000 in Federal funding will not be reviewed.
- Funds for all awarded projects must support research, investigations, experiments, trainings, demonstrations, surveys and/or studies related to restoring or revitalizing the environment; provide education, outreach, and training; or organize/conduct community planning activities in the Target Program Areas
- If any application is submitted that includes any ineligible tasks or activities, that portion of the application will be ineligible for funding and may, depending on the extent to which it affects the application, render the entire application ineligible for funding.
- Projects that do not fit within the statutory authorities listed in Section I will be considered ineligible and will not be reviewed.
Fort more information, visit Grants.gov.
