Assistance program
Healthy Communities Grant Program
$2.8 Million committed in FY2018–FY2025
- Agency
- Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Protection Agency
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 66.110
- What it does
- The Healthy Communities Grant Program is a competitive grant program for EPA New England (Region 1) to fund work directly with communities to support EPA’s mission to reduce environmental risks, protect and improve human health and improve the quality of life. In FY 2025, the Healthy Communities Grant Program will continue to achieve these goals through identifying and funding projects that: target resources to benefit communities at 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; and achieve measurable environmental and human health benefits. More information on each participating program’s activities, projects and accomplishments is available at EPA New England website: (https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/epa-region-1-new-england).
- Who benefits
- Interstate, State, Local, Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments, public nonprofit institutions/organizations, private nonprofit institutions/organizations, quasi-public nonprofit institutions/organizations, anyone/general public.
- Who applies
- Assistance under this program is available to State, Local, public nonprofit institutions/organizations, private nonprofit institutions/organizations, quasi-public nonprofit institutions/organizations, Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments, K-12 schools or school districts; and non-profit organizations (e.g. grassroots and/or community-based organizations). Funding will be considered for a college or university to support a project with substantial community involvement. Private businesses, federal agencies, and individuals are not eligible to be grant recipients; however, they are encouraged to work in partnership with eligible applicants on projects. Applicants need not be located within the boundaries of the EPA regional office to be eligible to apply for funding but must propose projects that affect the States, Tribes, and Territories within Region 1. For certain competitive funding opportunities under this assistance listing, the Agency may limit eligibility to compete to a number or subset of eligible applicants consistent with the Agency's Policy for Competition of Assistance Agreements.
- Authorized by
- Clean Air Act
- Clean Water Act
- Safe Drinking Water Act
- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
- Solid Waste Disposal Act
- Toxic Substances Control Act
- Indian Environmental General Assistance Program Act of 1992
- Program site
- https://www.epa.gov/newenglandhc ↗
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How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
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Direct payments