2023 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 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.

Grant 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 program will achieve these goals through 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, achieve measurable environmental and human health benefits.

Eligibility Requirements
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.

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