With funding provided by its partners, Keep America Beautiful provides grants to Keep America Beautiful affiliates, other nonprofit organizations, community groups, and local governments to help them implement projects that are designed to build clean, green, and beautiful places for all to thrive and enjoy. KAB is committed to fostering community diversity, unity, and environmental sustainability. We believe a beautiful America is made up of proud communities and unique, interconnected people – and that the principles of diversity, inclusion, compassion, caring, equity, and justice are tenets of a better society for everyone.
Annually, Keep America Beautiful offers a community grant program that funds several different community improvement projects that are designed to support our mission and grantee partners. The following application provides access to the project grants that are available this year. Applicants are encouraged, but not required, to develop a holistic program approach to support their work, rather than project specific activities, by leveraging funding available through the various individual grant project applications contained herein.
As a comprehensive grant application, there are several components that you are asked to complete (time estimates to complete in parentheses).
Identify the grant projects you wish to implement (< 1 minute)
Provide an overview of your organization (3 - 5 minutes)
Identify the communities or areas served by your organization (3 - 5 minutes)
Complete the specific grant applications(s) (10-15 minutes/project)
Before completing your comprehensive application, we encourage you to review the grant questions here. Please answer all questions to the best of your ability. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed. If you need to exit before completing the grant application, you will be able to save your progress and resume completing the application later by clicking on "Save my progress and resume later" at the top or bottom of each page. You will be able to print a copy of your completed grant application at the end of the application. You must click "Confirm" on the final page for the application to be submitted formally.
As you plan your grant program activities, please keep in mind that Keep America Beautiful requires every grant recipient to complete a final report on or before the specific grant deadlines. For cash grants, grantees will receive 70% of their grant funding upon executing a grant agreement and the remaining 30% of their award after submitting and having their final report approved by Keep America Beautiful. Grantees also are required to post at least one photo or story on the Keep America Beautiful Do Beautiful Things website.
Funding awards and grant agreements are expected to be announced and executed no later than January 31, 2023.
For more information on the programs and application process, please contact the following Keep America staff members based on the geographic locations provided.
For organizations in the following states and territories and countries, please contact Isaac Nicholson:
Alabama,
Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Indiana,
Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, ,
Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Canada, the U.S. Virgin Islands,
and Puerto Rico.
For organizations in the following states and territories and countries, please contact Jason Smith:
Alaska,
Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado,
Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana,
Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South
Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and Guam, the Northern
Mariana Islands, and American Samoa.