With support from Toyota Motor North America, the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) is pleased to announce $250,000 in grant funding to make public lands more accessible and enjoyable for people of all abilities.
Donor Name: National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF)
State: Selected States
City: Selected Cities
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/18/2026
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Through the 2026 Driving Mobility and Accessibility on Public Lands grant, NEEF aims to:
- Increase the capacity of local organizations and government agencies to address mobility and accessibility considerations on public lands; and
- Improve the level of access, comfort, and enjoyment experienced by public lands visitors of all abilities, together with their families and friends.
Funding Information
The grant will provide up to $20,000 per grantee to increase physical or digital access, provide adaptive recreation equipment or programming, or perform accessibility assessments on public lands in communities near 16 Toyota Motor North America facilities.
Eligible Communities
Projects must take place on public land within 50 miles of any of the communities below.
Huntsville, AL, Chandler, AZ, Tempe, AZ, Long Beach, CA, Alpharetta, GA, Princeton, IN, Georgetown, KY, Ann Arbor, MI, Troy, MO, Blue Springs, MS, Liberty, NC, Henderson, NV, Jackson, TN, San Antonio, TX, Plano, TX, Buffalo, WV
Types of Project
Projects must focus on at least one of the following:
- Public land and trail accessibility assessments
- Digital accessibility improvements (e.g. website or visitor center improvements for visitors with vision or hearing impairments)
- Recreation equipment for people with disabilities (equipment must be made publicly available)
- Programs to improve public land access for people with disabilities (e.g. adaptive recreation programs like paddling or cycling)
- Physical accessibility improvement projects (e.g. trails, boardwalks, bridges, kayak launches, volunteer program accessibility improvements, etc.)
Eligibility Criteria
- Open to nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations, state or federal government agencies, and federally recognized tribes and local governments.
- Organization must have been in existence for at least two (2) years.
- Must be a project on public land, which, for the purposes of this RFP, is defined as any federal, state, local, county, or regional land or waterway accessible to the public for the purposes of recreation. This may also include nonprofit-managed public lands, such as land trusts, if the primary mission of the organization is conservation and recreation on that land.
- Projects must take place on public lands located within 50 miles of one of the eligible communities.
- Nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations must provide a partnership letter from the public land site if they are not the managing entity of the public land site.
- Project must meet the project criteria.
For more information, visit NEEF.
