Keep America Beautiful Grants: Apply Online
www.kab.org/grants

Keep America Beautiful's Grants Program provides opportunities for KAB certified affiliates in good standing to apply for and receive a variety of community improvement grants, ranging from recycling to beautification projects.

"While these grants may not fund an entire program, they do allow us to do really significant projects that essentially give us something to take to local corporate groups and other potential funders. We can say, 'Look what we can do with $5,000.' It’s nice to have those 'spotlight' projects to use as a leveraging tool. People see that, and they want to know how they can get involved."

Brooke Romaniw
Public Awareness & Volunteer Coordinator
Keep Cincinnati Beautiful

Grant Applications for KAB Affiliates ONLY:

Keep America Beautiful's Grants Program provides opportunities for certified affiliates in good standing to apply for and receive a variety of grants. In 2012, over one million dollars of grant funding is available for community improvement, beautification, greening, waste reduction and recycling. There are no more restrictions on the number of grants you can receive so be sure to apply today!

Available Now:

Deadlines:
Newly Added Grant Deadlines:

2012 KAB/Waste Management Think Green Grants

How do you Think Green? We want to know, and we want to help you make your community’s greenest dreams possible. Waste Management, North America’s leading provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services, is again joining forces with Keep America Beautiful to encourage local solutions that showcase your environmental stewardship and community improvement efforts through grants from Waste Management. Grants will be awarded for programs that will improve communities, increase local recycling, or expand public education related to recycling. Ten $10,000 grants will be awarded.

What will your community do? That’s up to your creativity, but sample projects could include anything from recycling programs to creating a community green space, to starting a youth environmental club. Grant awards will recognize KAB affiliates’ most innovative or comprehensive programs and partnerships to improve business areas, neighborhoods or public spaces; or to increase recycling or recycling education in their communities. 

Applications are due by June 15, 2012.

Winners will be notified before August 2, 2012.
Projects must be completed by June 3, 2013.
Project wrap up reports are due by July 3, 2013. 

KAB Affiliate Eligibility:
1) KAB certified affiliates in good standing are eligible to apply. 
 
Grants Criteria:
Grants will be awarded to the best proposals that show:

• Creative and/or comprehensive concepts for community recycling infrastructure or public education (public education projects; collection systems at schools, home or retail establishments; community drop-off programs; or expansion of an existing curbside program).
• Creative and/or comprehensive concept for community renewal and/or beautification (makeover for a park or a section of a neighborhood, downtown business area or any community area, or clean-up of an illegal dump site).
• Evidence of sustainability of the project after grant funding terminates.
• Use of partnerships to leverage the scope, size and duration of the project.

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Graffiti Hurts Grant Application

Deadline: June 15, 2012 (11:59 pm EST)

All applicants will be notified of status by September 12, 2012. 

Grants will be awarded to applicants that meet the following criteria*. The proposed project will:

• Contribute to a comprehensive effort to prevent graffiti in the community.
• Implement an innovative or proven technique to address graffiti prevention.
• Help educate the community about graffiti prevention.
• Involve community partners, and encourage adult and youth citizen volunteers.
• Help develop a sustainable graffiti prevention effort. 

*Grant funds may not be used to pay in full for items such as cameras, equipment, personnel salaries, prize money, etc.

Any of the following groups are eligible to apply for a Graffiti Hurts^® grant:

Nonprofit, Civic, and Community Organizations
Includes neighborhood groups (e.g., Neighborhood Watch), crime prevention associations, civic clubs or organizations, and other nonprofit groups.

Youth Groups/Schools
Includes any group of youth such as Girl/Boy Scouts, 4-H, Girls/Boys Clubs, YW/YMCAs, and students in a class, grade or school club.

Government Agencies
Includes city, county, state and federal government agencies, or subdivisions within these agencies (e.g., department of public works), and police departments or other law enforcement.

For more information on Graffiti Hurts^® please visit: http://www.graffitihurts.org/

 Please note: If you are a recipient of a 2012 Graffiti Hurts® grant, you will be asked to submit a brief report outlining your accomplishments, including additional photographs to be taken during the project.

Please be sure to read each grant application requirement carefully as the questions may vary slightly from one grant to another and we are always refining the process. 

Before you get started...

• Is your affiliate in good standing and eligible to apply for the grant?

• WATCH YOUR FILE SIZE! No one file should be larger than 1MB! The ideal application is one document (either Word doc or PDF) with pictures embedded within the document. Click here for a sample application.

• Plan and prepare, don’t rush. Give yourself enough time (1-2 weeks if possible) to prepare the grant application.

• Will you be able to meet the program due date/execute the project on-time?

• Who in your organization is best suited to effectively write the grant proposal?

• Arrange with colleagues, department heads or mentors to review a first draft to make sure you are on the mark.

2012 Grant Application packages are now CLOSED.
Opens in the fall

The Division of Recycling & Litter Prevention’s 2012 grant funding information is now available.  Although the eligible applicants vary from grant to grant, generally the following entities are able to apply and receive funding:  Ohio counties, municipal corporations, townships, villages, solid waste management districts or authorities, soil & water conservation districts, Keep Ohio Beautiful affiliates, any agency of the state as defined in Chapter 119 of the Ohio Revised Code, board of education, joint vocational school districts, private sector businesses and non-profit organizations. Division grants range from $2,000 to $350,000 depending on the grant type.  All programs are competitive in nature. Some grant options require cash match, while others require no match but may recommend financial or in-kind contributions to demonstrate a sense of commitment. Both written and electronic applications must be U.S. postmarked or delivered to the division by the designated deadline date.

You may download the grant application packages, available in Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF, from the following links:

2012 Community Development Grant Application

2012 Market Development Grant Application

2012 Scrap Tire Grant Application