Keep Louisiana Beautiful Greener Grounds Grant provides funding to resources, and education via the Greener Grounds guidebook and workbook.
Donor Name: Keep Louisiana Beautiful
State: Louisiana
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant | Reimbursement
Deadline: 06/20/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
To aid event organizers in incorporating practical ways to plan and manage operations resulting in better waste reduction, increased recycling and litter prevention at large Louisiana outdoor events.
Louisiana is home to more than 400 festivals and events annually. Across the region, locals, and tourists come together to celebrate the state’s vibrant offerings of food, music, history, and culture. With these events often comes a completely avoidable and solvable issue — litter. They all love to laissez les bons temps rouler, but they must ensure the waste inevitably created by outdoor events does not threaten the environment. Keeping your site clean not only enhances your attendee’s experience but stops the detrimental cycle of mismanaged waste becoming litter that will clog Louisiana’s storm drains or enter the waterways, an issue that will ultimately harm the state’s coastline, wildlife, and water quality.
Funding Information
Reimbursement grant up to $10,000 for 3,000+ attendee-per-day events; or up to $5,000 for 1,000+ attendee-per-day events.
Eligible for Funding
- Trash receptacles – permanent or disposable.
- Recycling receptacles – permanent or disposable.
- Trash/Recycling bins and bags.
- Waste Station directional and instructional signage and banners.
- Litter prevention and recycling signage and banners.
- Litter prevention and recycling education to attendees.
- Promotions strictly regarding litter prevention, recycling, and waste reduction efforts at event.
- T-shirts strictly limited to volunteers working waste stations and grant-related activities – not to exceed 10% of total grant budget.
- Water and food strictly limited to volunteers working waste stations and grant-related activities – not to exceed 10% of total grant budget.
- Litter removal supplies such as litter grabbers, shovels, and rakes.
- Expenses related to labor provided by not-for-profit organizations for servicing of collection containers – not to exceed 15% of total grant budget.
Eligibility Criteria
- Municipalities and Parishes that organize large-scale community special events
- Not-for-profit large outdoor events – festivals, fairs, concerts, and parades – Non-profit applicants must submit their IRS Determination Letter
- Outdoor events with a minimum of 1,000 attendees per day
- Event attendance must be open to all Louisiana citizens
- Event must be in Louisiana and must be held outdoors
- Event must be held after execution of the Grant Agreement and before the Final Report is due with enough time to complete the Greener Grounds Workbook and all Final Report requirements
- All applicants must submit Form W-9
- All applicants must be in good standing with the Louisiana Secretary of State
- All applicants must be a State Certified Vendor.
- Application must be submitted by the deadline and be completed in its entirety.
For more information, visit KLB.
