Health

To fund community-led development and infrastructure projects that achieve major environmental, health, and economic benefits in California’s most disadvantaged communities. The program empowers the communities most impacted by pollution to choose the strategies and projects best suited to achieve their community vision and enact transformational change. All with data-driven milestones and measurable outcomes.

Gary Erickson and Kit Crawford, founder and co-creators of Clif Bar & Company, started the foundation in 2006 to support nonprofits that are working tirelessly to transform our food system, revitalize the environment, and enhance community health.

Research on the direct and indirect health impacts of extreme weather in the United States. The goal is to address knowledge gaps by supporting the ethical collection of perishable, health-relevant data and the rapid sharing of results to inform efforts to save lives and prevent adverse health outcomes.

Following an emergency, disaster, or other major contingency, Congress has sometimes enacted supplemental appropriations to the Indian Community Development Block Grant program to provide additional assistance to ICDBG-eligible entities. ICDBG-IT grants must alleviate or remove imminent threats to public health or safety.

To address NIOSH's mandate to ensure an adequate supply of qualified personnel to carry out the purposes of the Occupational Safety and Health Act. ERCs are academic institutions providing high-quality, interdisciplinary graduate and post-graduate training, research training, continuing education, and outreach.

This program helps eligible communities prepare, or recover from, an emergency that threatens the availability of safe, reliable drinking water.

The Firefighters Charitable Foundation (FFCF) was founded in 1991 to provide much needed financial assistance to individuals who have been affected by a fire or disaster and to support other charities, institutions, and volunteer fire departments.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation supports children, families, and communities to strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society. The Foundation Grants support community-driven work that helps children, families, and communities thrive. Funding priorities include early care and education, health, good food access, career pathways for parents and caregivers, racial equity, and community engagement.

Project update from June 2026: The WSMART project has restarted for the 2026 wildfire season with limited scope of loaning Vehicle Add-on Mobile Monitoring Systems (VAMMS) to Air Resource Advisors only. If you are an Air Resource Advisor being deployed for wildfire response and would like to request equipment, please email SmokeTech@epa.gov.

The purpose of the Tribal Undergraduate to Graduate Research Training and Leadership Experiences (TURTLE) program is to fund federally-recognized Tribes or Tribal Entities to develop a pool of scientists to conduct research on Tribal health and health disparities. The overall goal is to support the development of individuals who have the technical, operational, and professional skills required to conduct Tribal health research in a culturally appropriate, ethically responsible and rigorous manner, to complete their degrees in a biomedical field, and to transition into careers in the biomedical research workforce.

NIGMS will provide support for a phased award to Tribal Entities to develop (UE5) and implement effective training and mentoring activities for research-oriented individuals earning a baccalaureate degree (T34) or doctoral degree (T32) in biomedical research fields at a variety of institutions across the United States and territories. The phased award is intended to develop capacity at eligible Tribal Entities and provide funds for institutional NRSA training programs. The funding in the second phase of the TURTLE award will provide trainee stipends to defray living expenses, tuition remission, travel, as well as training-related expenses to support the program.