Deadline: 9-May-22
The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking applications for its 2022 Healthy Communities Grant Program.
The Healthy Communities Grant Program is Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) New England’s main competitive grant program 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 this 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, 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.
Target Investment Areas
- Areas Needing to Create Community Resilience, Environmental Justice Areas of Potential Concern, and/or Sensitive Populations
Target Program Areas
- Capacity Building in Minority or Low-Income Populations; 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: $450,000
- Award Ceiling: $40,000
- Award Floor: $0
Eligibility Criteria
- 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.
- 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 their Region.
- 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.
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Non-Profit Status: Non-profit organization, means any corporation, trust, association, cooperative or other organization that:
- is operated primarily for scientific, educational, service, charitable, or similar purposes in the public interest;
- is not organized primarily for profit; and
- uses its net proceeds to maintain, improve and/or expand its operations.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=338641