Funding Opportunities

Current Funding opportunities

Building Healthy Communities for Active Aging: Training and Demonstration Projects

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to award in early 2009 a total of $200,000, $100,000 each for two grants for two grants that 1) train older adults to be environmental leaders and 2) demonstrate how greenways and sustainable streets can improve the environment, human health and the quality of life.

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.

Read more about Building Healthy Communities for Active Aging: Training and Demonstration Projects (EPA-AO-OCHP-08-01)(PDF) (26pp, 146KB,  About PDF).

Go to the Grants.gov site to read more and apply.

Questions and Answers related to the RFP Building Healthy Communities for Active Aging

The National Institutes of Health Seek Award Applications for Research on Fatigue in Aging (Deadline: May 8, 2011)

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) seeks submissions for its program announcements on "Transdisciplinary Research on Fatigue and Fatigability in Aging." These funding opportunities use the R01 and R21 funding mechanisms. The purpose of these program announcements is to promote research studies employing transdisciplinary approaches that could lead to increased understanding of mechanisms contributing to, assessment of, or potential interventions for, increased fatigue or fatigability in older persons. Direct cost requests for R21 applications are limited to $275,000 over 2 years and $200,000 in any single year. Direct cost requests for R01 applications are discussed in the text of the announcement. Eligible organizations/institutions include for-profit organizations, small businesses, city or township governments, public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, private institutions of higher education and more. Closing date for applications: May 8, 2011. Applications must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov.

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Web Sites:

Active for Life:  http://www.activeforlife.info/resources/funding_opportunities.html

Grants.gov:  http://www.grants.gov.