The Healthy Communities Grant Program is seeking 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,

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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 environmental and human health benefits.



Proposed projects must:
(1) Be located in and/or directly benefit one or more of the three Target Investment Areas which include:
Environmental Justice Areas of Potential Concern, Sensitive Populations, and/or Urban Areas in one or more of the EPA Region I States of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and/or Vermont; and (2) Identify how the proposed project will achieve measurable environmental and/or public health results in one or more of the five Target Program Areas which include Asthma, Capacity Building on Environmental and Public Health Issues, Healthy Indoor/Outdoor Environments, Healthy Schools, Urban Natural Resources.