Y: The purpose of this Children’s Healthy Learning Environments in Low-Income and/or Minority Communities solicitation (RFA) is to provide funds for capacity building activities to address disproportionate children’s environmental health harms and risks in school and/or childcare settings in, or that primarily serve, low-income and/or minority communities. This RFA provides funding directly to organizations to support school- and/or childcare center-based capacity building projects that help school communities understand and address local environmental and public health issues that affect children. Projects must take place in schools and/or childcare centers that are located in minority and/or low-income communities and/or primarily serve student populations that are minority and/or lowincome (e.g., Head Start and Early Head Start programs, Title I schools, tribal schools).
) Projects must address health outcome disparities from pollution and/or the COVID-19 pandemic and identify and address disproportionate environmental health harms and risks in minority populations and/or low-income populations.
Applicants may submit only one application under this solicitation. If an applicant submits more than one, EPA will contact them prior to application review to determine which one to withdraw.
Deadline: Sep. 10, 2021
Assistance under this competition is available to states or state agencies, territories, city or township governments, county governments, the District of Columbia, American Indian Tribes (federally recognized), and possessions of the U.S. It is also available to public and private universities and colleges, hospitals, laboratories, or public or private nonprofit institutions. Nonprofit organizations described in Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code that engage in lobbying activities as defined in Section 3 of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 are not eligible to apply for funding. For-profit organizations, including proprietary colleges and universities, are not eligible for cooperative agreements under this RFA.
: Under this RFA, EPA intends to award up to 10 cooperative agreements to U.S. states or state agencies, territories, city or township governments, county governments, the District of Columbia, American Indian Tribes (federally recognized), and possessions of the U.S.; public and private universities and colleges, hospital, laboratories, or public or private nonprofit institutions. For profit organizations including proprietary colleges and universities are not eligible. The total estimated funding for the awards is $2,000,000, and EPA expects that each award will be for approximately $200,000. EPA expects to award one cooperative agreement in each of EPA’s 10 regions; however, EPA may adjust the funding and awards based on the quality of applications received and other relevant considerations.
