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Document Type:
Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:
EPA-R1-HC-2010
Opportunity Category:
Discretionary
Posted Date:
Jan 26, 2010
Creation Date:
Jan 26, 2010
Original Closing Date for Applications:
Apr 05, 2010
Please refer to the full announcement, including Section IV, for additional information on submission methods and due dates.
Current Closing Date for Applications:
Apr 05, 2010
Please refer to the full announcement, including Section IV, for additional information on submission methods and due dates.
Archive Date:
May 05, 2010
Funding Instrument Type:
Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity:
Environment
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
20
Estimated Total Program Funding:
$300,000
Award Ceiling:
$35,000
Award Floor:
$5,000
CFDA Number(s):
66.110
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Healthy Communities Grant Program
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:
Yes
Eligible Applicants
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility:
See Section III of the announcement for additional eligibility information.
Agency Name
Environmental Protection Agency
Description
The Healthy Communities Grant Program is seeking projects that:
• Target resources to benefit communities at risk (environmental justice areas of potential concern, places with high risk from toxic air pollution, urban areas) and sensitive populations (e.g. children, elderly, others at increased risk).
• Assess, understand, and reduce environmental and human health risks.
• Increase collaboration through community-based projects.
• Build institutional and community capacity to understand and solve environment and human health problems.
• Achieve measurable environmental and human health benefits.
Proposed projects must: (1) Be located in and/or directly benefit one or more of the three Target Investment Areas which include: Environmental Justice Areas of Potential Concern, Sensitive Populations, and/or Urban Areas in one or more of the EPA Region I States of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and/or Vermont; and (2) Identify how the proposed project will achieve measurable environmental and/or public health results in one or more of the five Target Program Areas which include Asthma, Capacity Building on Environmental and Public Health Issues, Healthy Indoor/Outdoor Environments, Healthy Schools, Urban Natural Resources.
