The Keep Virginia Beautiful is currently accepting applications for its Green Grant Program.
Donor Name: Keep Virginia Beautiful
State: Virginia
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/30/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,000
Details:
Keep Virginia Beautiful Green Grants program empowers groups all across Virginia to make an environmental impact in their own communities. This is one of the ways they can engage the people who live in Virginia to improve our natural and scenic environment. They believe in a shared responsibility to end littering, improve recycling and beautify communities, and they know with your determination and their support, much can be accomplished!
Grant Categories
- Litter Prevention: Grants are awarded to groups that aim to clean up, prevent, or reduce litter. Funding will support cleanup supplies, cleanup events, including water cleanups. Studies show that an area that does not contain litter less likely to become littered in the future. The purpose of these grants is to support sustainable prevention and reduction of litter in Virginia
- Cigarette Litter Prevention: Cigarette butts account for over 30% of all U.S. roadway litter and storm drain litter. Grants are awarded for projects that include public education and awareness of the issue of cigarette litter, placing cigarette butt receptacles at transition points (such as entrances to public buildings), recycling cigarette butts through the Teracycle, and/or distributing pocket or portable ashtrays to adult smokers
- Community Beautification: The purpose of this grant is to support beautification efforts within Virginia’s communities. Grants are awarded to groups who create projects or programs that beautify and benefit the community, such as community gardens, renovating vacant lots, removing or repainting graffiti, creating green public spaces, and community revitalization projects
- Recycling: Grants in the Recycling category are awarded to groups that implement or expand programs to reduce waste, increase recycling, as well as other inventive ways to reuse or repurpose recyclable/non-recyclable items in Virginia. Funding will support recycling receptacles, fix-it fairs, re-usable produce and shopping bags, water refilling stations, and other efforts to eliminate the dependence on single-use plastics.
Funding Information
Keep Virginia Beautiful accepts grant applications in spring each year, and funds thirty awards in amounts of $500, $750, or $1,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- The grants are awarded to schools, parks, counties and towns, environmental groups, associations, nonprofits, and service organizations
- You may submit an application in more than one category, but only one grant would be awarded to any one group for this grant cycle
- Projects or Programs must take place in the Commonwealth of Virginia
- No funds will be issued directly to individuals.
For more information, visit Keep Virginia Beautiful.
