Executive Summary:
The Healthy Communities Grant Program is EPA New England’s main competitive grant program to work directly with communities to support EPA’s “Back-to-Basics” agenda to reduce environmental risks, protect and improve human health and improve 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 [areas needing to create community resilience, environmental justice areas of potential concern, sensitive populations (e.g.
children, elderly, tribes, urban and rural residents, and others at increased 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.
Advance emergency preparedness and ecosystem resilience.
Achieve measurable environmental and human health benefits.