EPA Requests Grant Proposals to Build Healthy Communities for Active Aging

[Charlie McCabe]

Hi everyone,

This might be of interest to folks working on trails around Austin in terms of possible funding.  Thanks to Tracy Atkins of NPS for sending this to me.

Charlie

EPA Requests Grant Proposals to Build Healthy Communities for Active Aging

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to award in early 2009,two grants for $100,000 each to train older adults to be environmental
leaders and demonstrate how greenways and sustainable streets can improve the environment, human health and the quality of life for persons of all
ages.

Building Healthy Communities for Active Aging Training and Demonstration Projects must include a strategy that either 1) trains older adults to
be environmental leaders on local planning decisions that affect their community's built environment; or 2) demonstrates how greenways and
sustainable streets can improve the quality of life for persons of all ages while improving environmental quality.

For purposes of this RFP Greenways and Sustainable Streets are defined as follows:
Greenways are linear corridors of open space.  They include natural corridors (e.g., along a stream, river, or ridge), canals, rail road
rights of way converted to recreational use, and trails.  They link places together, inviting city and community residents to experience a connection with the natural environment.  Greenways connect neighborhoods, downtowns, schools, community centers, and other important public places.  They can include waterfront walkways, stream corridors and other natural ecological reserves, as well as off-street biking and walking paths.

Sustainable Streets are a multimodal rights-of-way designed and operated to create benefits to mobility, community and ecology. They are streets
that use sustainable design principles that promote safe, least-polluting ways to connect people and incorporate natural, landscape-based methods that infiltrate, reuse, or evaportranspirate (allow water to evaporate back into the air) stormwater runoff, and mitigate the "urban heat island effect" (the additional heating in the air over a city as the result of replacement of vegetated surfaces with those composed of heat-retaining, man-made materials such as asphalt and dark colored roofing).

Eligible entities include States, or state agencies, the District of Columbia, territories, American Indian Tribes (federally recognized),
and possessions of the U.S.  It is also available to public and private universities and colleges, hospitals, laboratories, other public or
private nonprofit institutions, and 501(c)(3) organizations.

Letters of intent are encouraged by October 24, 2008.

Proposals must be submitted by November 21, 2008.

See: http://www.epa.gov/aging/grants/index.htm#2008_1121_grant_1


For the pdf see:
http://www.epa.gov/aging/grants/grant-list/2008_11_21_rfp-epa-ao-ochp-08
-01-fnl-rev-9-24.pdf

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