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Cooperative Agreements
The CARE Program offers two levels of Cooperative Agreements to local communities. They can effectively be thought of as grants and are categorized as Level I or Level II based on whether the community toxics have been previously identified and prioritized.
On this page
On the Community Profiles page
- Community Profiles of Grant Recipients for 2009
- Community Profiles of Grant Recipients for 2008
- Community Profiles of Grant Recipients for 2007
- Community Profiles of Grant Recipients for 2006
- Community Profiles of Grant Recipients for 2005
2010 CARE Cooperative Agreements Request for Proposals (RFP)
EPA has published the CARE RFP. EPA plans to award approximately $2 million in grants; applications are due by March 9, 2010.
CARE Request for Proposals Q&A Webcast
The CARE program will conduct three national information sessions for cooperative agreement applicants via national Webcasts in February 2009.
| February 2, 2010 | 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. eastern time |
| February 23, 2010 | 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. eastern time |
| February 26, 2010 | 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. eastern time |
Registration information will be available on this site in January and February.
After the three national Webcast sessions are completed, a recorded version of the full Webcast will be available.
For Your Information: EPA has a new Web-based training page designed to help non-profit recipients of EPA grants and cooperative agreements (grants or grant agreements) manage their grants in a manner that assures EPA meets this vision.
How the CARE Program Works
CARE offers two different types of Cooperative Agreements: Level 1 and Level 2. These can be thought of as grants and, respectively, amount to approximately $90,000 and $275,000.
Level 1 Cooperative Agreements help communities:- Join together to form a broad-based partnership dedicated to reducing toxic pollutants and environmental risks in their local environment. Partners could be non-profit groups, community organizations, businesses, schools, and state, Tribal and local government agencies, EPA, and others Federal Agencies.
- Identify problems and solutions. Working together, this stakeholder group assesses toxics problems in their community and considers options for reducing environmental risks. Many of the emission and exposure reductions will result from the application of EPA partnership programs. EPA technical assistance is available to support this process.
Level 2 Cooperative Agreements are for communities that already have established broad-based collaborative partnerships and have completed environmental assessments. (The successful completion of a Level 1 Cooperative Agreement is not required.)
Level 2 Cooperative Agreements help communities:
- Implement solutions and reduce risks. The partnership identifies the combination of programs that best meet the community's needs. EPA funding helps to implement these projects. The community begins improving its environment.
- Become self sustaining. The community develops local solutions and ways to continue their environmental work long-term (e.g. increased partnerships and sustainable practices). CARE funds pay to implement the local actions and solutions that are identified. These solutions will reduce risks within their community. The result: communities will build self-sustaining, community-based partnerships that will continue to improve human health and local environments into the future.
Please visit EPA's Region 7 Online Tutorial for the 2009 CARE RFP at: http://www.threestarenterprises.com/epa.asp (Under Construction)