2024 HEALTHY COMMUNITIES GRANT PROGRAM

Background
The Healthy Communities Grant Program was launched in 2003 and supports EPA’s mission by integrating many EPA New England (Region 1) programs. These programs include Air Quality Outreach; Asthma and Indoor Air; Children’s Environmental Health; Air Pollution in Schools and the 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. The program aims to reduce environmental risks, protect and improve human health, and improve quality of life by targeting resources to benefit communities at risk, assessing, understanding, and reducing environmental and human health risks, increasing collaboration through partnerships and community-based projects, building institutional and community capacity to understand and solve environmental and human health problems, as well as achieving measurable environmental and human health benefits.

Grant Details
The Healthy Communities Grant Program anticipates awarding approximately 15 cooperative agreements from project applications in 2024. The program focuses on funding direct work with communities to support EPA’s mission. It aims to achieve these goals by identifying and funding projects that target resources to benefit communities at 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, as well as achieve measurable environmental and human health benefits.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligible applicants are invited to apply for funding consideration under this competitive grant program. The program targets communities at risk such as environmental justice areas of potential concern and/or sensitive populations (e.g., children, elderly, tribes, urban and rural residents).

Grant Value
The total value of the grant is not specified.

Place of Performance
The specific geographic location(s) where the grant will be performed is New England including Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, as well as federally recognized Tribes in New England.