The Recreation and Visitor Services Program provides a wide variety of recreational opportunities that benefit the public and local communities.
Donor Name: Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
State: Alaska
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/17/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
The BLM’s Recreation and Visitor Services Program oversees a broad and complex set of recreation related programs that provide a multitude of recreation opportunities and experiences. These recreation resources and visitor services support strong local economies and public land conservation. As the BLM works to enhance recreational opportunities, they strive to remain a good neighbor and partner.
The program is also responsible for implementing Administration and Department priorities, including projects to improve racial equity, diversity and inclusion; help strengthen the U.S. economy; and reduce impacts to the environment and climate. The program is also prioritizing implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act; the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act; the Great American Outdoors Act; the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act; Executive Order (E.O.) 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government; and E.O. 14008, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad
In fiscal year 2025, the BLM will support the Department’s priorities by focusing on projects that build healthy communities and economies, advance environmental justice, address the climate crisis, and provide safe and equitable access to outdoor recreation opportunities for all Americans. These projects will:
- Connect with youth, tribes, and underserved communities to foster public lands stewardship.
- Enhance access to quality outdoor recreation activities while promoting climate resiliency.
- Identify and remove barriers to outdoor recreation and expand recreation opportunities for all.
- Provide an enhanced, more sustainable recreational experience by delivering up-to-date and engaging visitor information online and in person.
BLM Alaska has an opportunity to work with partner organizations to assist with the following:
- Increase and enhance access to BLM public lands and waters, with a focus on, and not limited to, underserved, Tribal, and low-income youth.
- Reduce or remove transportation barriers for youth to access public lands.
- Increase and enhance recreational opportunities.
- Enhance public satisfaction at BLM recreation sites and areas.
- Collect visitor and recreation resource data by conducting inventories and visitor assessments.
- Conduct inventory, monitoring, data management, assessment and planning on BLM public lands and waters.
- Locate, inventory, monitor, survey, and nominate significant caves on BLM public lands.
- Provide enriched visitor services, information, interpretation and education, including websites.
- Protect visitor health and safety.
- Improve accessibility for persons with disabilities.
- Improve motorized and non-motorized trails including trail construction and maintenance, comprehensive travel and transportation inventory and assessment, planning, management, and monitoring.
- Enhance community-supported partnerships in tourism, marketing, and conservation.
- Strengthen relationships with sovereign Tribal nations by elevating indigenous voices on the public lands through the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience (NATIVE) Act.
- Engage with diverse stakeholders and traditionally underserved populations to achieve a better understanding of how recreation contributes to their lives.
- Enhance and increase responsible recreation messaging.
- Develop and provide training and education, including workshops, webinars and public outreach.
- Advance responsible recreation values.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $250,000
- Award Ceiling: $100,000
- Award Floor: $5,000
Grant Period
- Anticipated Project Start Date: 09/01/2025
- Anticipated Project End Date: 08/31/2030
Eligibility Criteria
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- State governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- City or township governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Special district governments.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
