Keep Charlotte Beautiful (KCB) is currently accepting Letters of Intent for its Beautification Grant, an annual opportunity which awards up to $8,000 for community beautification projects.
Donor Name: Keep Charlotte Beautiful (KCB)
State: North Carolina
City: Charlotte
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/13/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
This competitive grant is open to neighborhoods, businesses, nonprofits, schools, and individuals citywide.
KCB Core Principles Eligible Project Opportunities
- Litter Prevention
- Clean-Your-Block Parties and educational efforts that promote litter removal & prevention
- Eligible expenses:
- Waste Reduction & Recycling
- Competitions and educational campaigns, decorative trash cans and recycling bins, pet waste stations, cigarette butt boxes and other methods to improve collection of waste and recycling
- Eligible expenses:
- Program supplies, signage, bins, design fees and installation.
- Beautification
- Beautification and placemaking enhancements, decorative elements including sculpture, painted pavement, murals, mosaics, decorative signal cabinet wraps, seating & benches. Façade improvements may include help your neighbor campaigns to manage lawns, landscaping and minor exterior home repairs, painting and other enhancements.
- Eligible expenses:
- Design fees, supplies and installation.
- Community Greening
- Community gardens, hydroponic gardens, street plantings, moveable planters or hanging baskets, trees, shrubs and other landscaping to promote bees, butterflies and other species, food production and clean air.
- Eligible expenses:
- Gardening tools/tool rental, design, signage, decorative elements including planter boxes and benches, potting soil and perennial plants.
- Must include at least 50% native plant species.
Grant Considerations
- Grant funds are provided as reimbursement upon project completion with submission of qualified receipts, unless other arrangements are made. No match is required.
- Grant funded activities may not begin prior to contract signing and must be completed by December 31st, 2025.
- Projects are subject to review and approval processes through Keep Charlotte Beautiful and the City of Charlotte. When applicable, written property owner permission is required.
For more information, visit KCB.
