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Welcome to EPA’s Aging Initiative Website. The website provides a wealth of information about the Agency’s efforts to protect the environmental health of older persons.

The United States is a rapidly aging nation. By 2030, the number of older persons is expected to double to more than 70 million. Click here to read more.

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EPA Funding Opportunities

Innovative and Integrative Approaches for Advancing Public Health Protection through Water Infrastructure Sustainability. Deadline: July 29, 2008 Read more...

EPA Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response Program Tribal Support Grants. Deadline: August 11, 2008 Read more...

Region 5 Wetland Program Development Grants FY 08. Deadline: August 15, 2008 Read more...

2008 Indoor Environments: Reducing Public Exposure to Indoor Air Pollutants. Deadline: August 22, 2008 Read more...

Research Apprenticeship Program for High School Students. Deadline: August 25, 2008 Read more...

West Coast Estuaries Initiative for the California Coast. Deadline: August 25, 2008 Read more...

San Francisco Bay Area Water Quality Improvement Fund. Deadline: August 25, 2008 Read more...

Region 7 – Request for Proposals for EPA Dedicated Water Quality Program Funding. Deadline: August 29, 2008 Read More...

Food Quality Protection Act/Strategic Agricultural Initiative Grant Program: Request for Applications-FY 2008 EPA Region 1. Deadline: September 8, 2008 Read More...

Targeted Watersheds Grants for Water Quality Trading or Other Market-Based Projects to Reduce the Hypoxic Zone in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Deadline: September 9, 2008 Read more...

Indoor Environments: Reducing Public Exposure to Indoor Pollutants. Deadline: September 10, 2008 Read More...

Climate Change and Allergic Airway Disease. Deadline: October 1, 2008 Read more...

EPA Broad Agency Announcement for Conferences, Workshops, and/or Meetings. Deadline 2: June 5, 2008. Deadline 3: December 9, 2008 Read more...

Other Funding Opportunities

Mutual Service Cooperative Fund Announces 2008 Grant Program Cooperative Development Foundation. Deadline: July 25, 2008 Read more...

The National Council on Aging’s Multi-Generational & Civic Engagement Initiative. A concept paper is due on August 1, 2008 Read more...

Public Health Nursing. The Indian Health Service Division of Nursing, Office of Public Health Nursing. Deadline: August 4, 2008 Read more...

Johnson & Johnson in partnership with the Society for the Arts in Healthcare. Funder Johnson and Johnson and the Society for the Arts in Healthcare. Deadline: August 8, 2008 Read more...

CDC Cancer Prevention and Control Activities. Funder CDC. Deadline: August 11, 2008 Read more...

Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Grants to States Program: Innovation Grants to Better Serve People with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders. Funder: U.S. Administration on Aging. Deadline: August 11, 2008 Read More...(DOC)

Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Grants to States Program: Evidence-Based Intervention Grants to Better Serve People with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders. Funder: U.S. Administration on Aging. Deadline: August 11, 2008 Read More...(DOC)

Nursing Home Diversion Modernization Cooperative Agreement. Funder: U.S. Administration on Aging. Deadline: August 14, 2008 Read more...(DOC) (MS Word File)

Cooperative Agreement for Improving the Legal Preparedness of the Public Health System CDC. Deadline: August 29, 2008 Read More...

Rural Health Care Services Outreach Grant Program. HRSA. Deadline: October 16, 2008 Read more...

Social Neuroscience of Aging (R01). NIA. Deadline October 31, 2008 Read more...