Children’s Healthy Learning Environments in Low-income and/or Minority Communities

Deadline: 9/10/2021

Amount: $200,000 max

Website: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=334805

Description:

The purpose of this program is to provide funds for capacity building activities to address disproportionate children’s environmental health harms and risks in school and/or childcare settings. Funds will support projects that help school communities understand and address local environmental and public health issues that affect children. Projects must take place in or directly benefit 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 low-income (e.g., Head Start and Early Head Start programs, Title I schools, tribal schools). Projects may demonstrate, implement or expand innovative methods and approaches to prevent and reduce exposures in schools and/or childcare settings. Capacity-building programs should be multi-media (involving multiple environmental health hazards stemming from air pollution and/or unsafe drinking water) and holistic (involving multiple stakeholders and built on strong partnerships).

Eligible applicants:

government entities, nonprofit institutions, tribes, IHEs, hospitals, and laboratories for capacity building projects