Community Grants
Learn about our Community Grant opportunities!
Each year, Keep America Beautiful awards thousands of dollars in community grants to affiliates and nonprofits. In 2021 alone, we awarded over $1.2 million to deserving grantees.
With a renewed commitment to restoring and revitalizing disadvantaged and underserved communities, as well as those dealing with the aftermath of natural disasters, we’re dedicated to helping others grow their impact.
THE KAB COMMUNITY GRANT PROGRAM APPLICATION period opens in the fall.
Please watch this space for additional information on the next cycle!
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Keep America Beautiful®, (KAB) the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization, will soon be announcing the next round of KAB Community Grant Program awards. These grants support communities and our 700-member affiliate network in preventing littering, promoting recycling, and building clean, green, and beautiful neighborhoods.
Through a coalition of corporate sponsors, Keep America Beautiful seeks innovative grant applications for programs that will unify communities as they address their community improvement needs.
Keep America Beautiful encourages applicants to use this grant opportunity to leverage local resources and encourage volunteers to sign up and take action in their community.
For more information on the 2022 program, please click here: 2022 Keep America Beautiful Unify & Beautify Community Grant Program
HOW IT WORKS
Keep America Beautiful is committed to fostering community diversity, unity, and environmental sustainability. Funding is available independently or collectively to:
- promote public space recycling collection
- build strong neighborhoods within and along Martin Luther King Jr. boulevards
- beautification through tree planting,
- and prevent littering by addressing cigarette litter and collecting litter from the nation’s waterways.
Applicants are encouraged, but not required, to develop a comprehensive PROGRAM approach, rather than project-specific activities by leveraging the funding available through the various grant applications. After completing basic information common to all the applications, applicants will be given the option to apply for one or several of the community improvement grant offerings.
As you plan your program activities please keep in mind that Keep America Beautiful requires every 2023 grant recipient to complete a status and/or final report, on or before by October 31, 2023.
For more information on the program and application process, contact the KAB Regional Director for your region:
Western Region
Gabi Polo, gpolo@kab.org
Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa.
Eastern Region
Jason Smith, jsmith@kab.org
Alabama, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Canada, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.
Mallory Coffey, mcoffey@kab.org
Florida, South Carolina, Delaware
PUBLIC SPACE RECYCLING GRANT
The Keep America Beautiful/Keurig Dr Pepper Public Space Recycling Grant Program supports local community recycling initiatives by providing selected grant recipients with resources needed to collect recyclables generated “on-the-go.”
Examples of public space recycling programs:
CIGARETTE LITTER PREVENTION GRANT
The Cigarette Litter Prevention Program (CLPP) is the nation’s largest program aimed at reducing cigarette litter.
Examples of CLPP grant programs:
MARTIN LUTHER KING NEIGHBORHOOD GRANT
Keep America Beautiful (“KAB”), in partnership with our sponsor, Diageo, is pleased to provide a Community Improvement Grant to support areas in and around Martin Luther King Jr. Corridors and neighborhoods.
Examples of MLK Neighborhood grant programs:
COMMUNITY & RECOVERY TREE PLANTING GRANT
This grant program supports community efforts to plant trees in response to or in prevention of a natural disaster.
Learn About Community & Recovery grant programs:
CIGARETTE LITTER COLLECTION STANDS
Keep America Beautiful affiliates and partner organizations have an opportunity to participate in a KAB initiative to place 5,000 litter stands in communities nationwide to collect and recycle cigarette butts.
Read more on Cigarette Litter Collection Stand grant programs:
LITTER IN WATERWAYS
Keep America Beautiful affiliates and partner organizations have an opportunity to participate in a KAB initiative to place litter collection devices in waterbodies and along beaches.
Litter in Waterways grant programs:
SPORTS STADIUM RECYCLING PROGRAM
Keep America Beautiful affiliates and partner organizations have an opportunity to participate in a KAB initiative to enhance recycling opportunities at major sports stadiums across the nation.
Learn more about the Sports Stadium grant programs:
Have a question about the Community Grants Program?
Contact your Regional Director
Western Region
Gabi Polo, gpolo@kab.org
Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa.
Eastern Region
Jason Smith, jsmith@kab.org
Alabama, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Canada, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.
Mallory Coffey, mcoffey@kab.org
Florida, South Carolina, Delaware
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YOUR DONATION IN ACTION
Your generosity allows us to expand our program offerings, fund community improvement projects from coast to coast, and provide the means needed to make meaningful and lasting impact in local communities across the U.S.