Region 1: EPA New England

Healthy Communities Grant Program

The Healthy Communities Grant Program integrates nine EPA New England programs – Assistance & Pollution Prevention: Schools Sector, Asthma, Children’s Environmental Health, Community Air Toxics, Pesticides, Smart Growth, Tools for Schools, Toxics, and the Urban Environmental Program working in partnership to best identify competitive projects that will achieve measurable environmental and human health improvements in communities across New England. The Healthy Communities Grant Program is EPA New England’s main grant program to work directly with communities to reduce environmental risks to protect and improve human health and the quality of life. The Healthy Communities Grant Program will achieve this through identifying and funding 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 environment and human health benefits.

The application guidance and forms are available below in PDF. If you have any questions, or would like to learn more about the grant competition, please contact Sandra Padula at (617) 918-1797.

Application Guidance (25 pp., 130 KB, about PDF)

Application Form (2 pp., 44 KB, about PDF)

Application Form Section A (4 pp., 120 KB, about PDF)

Application Form Section B (2 pp., 20 KB, about PDF)