New England Healthy Communities Grant Program

Zac Degler
617.918.1630
Degler.Zachary@epa.gov

The New England Healthy Communities Grant Program awards funding to communities to reduce environmental risks, protect and improve human health, and improve the quality of life.

Goals for Healthy Communities Grants include:

• Target resources to benefit communities at risk or sensitive populations, such as 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

Program priorities include rural, tribal, and other areas with environmental justice concerns.

Target 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
• Sustainable materials management

Project examples and outputs under each target area are listed in the application instructions.

Eligible applicants include:

• State and local governments
• Public nonprofit institutions/organizations
• Private nonprofit institutions/organizations
• Quasi-public nonprofit institutions/organizations
• Federally-recognized tribal governments
• K-12 schools or school districts
• Other nonprofits such as grassroots and community-based organizations

Applicants do not need to be physically located within the boundaries of EPA New England to be eligible to apply for funding, but all proposed projects must affect and benefit one or more of the states, tribes, and/or territories within EPA Region 1.

Award ceiling: $40,000
Project period: 1-2 years
Expected number of awards: 15
Estimated total program funding: $500,000

Links to the full announcement and online application process are available through grants.gov. The application instructions will be found on the related documents tab.

Completed applications may also be emailed to R1hcgrants@epa.gov if there are technical issues with submission.