Community Grants
Each year, Keep America Beautiful, in partnership with its corporate sponsors, awards hundreds of thousands of dollars in community grants to affiliates, nonprofits, and local governments to implement projects that help build clean, green, and beautiful places for all to thrive and enjoy.
With a renewed commitment to beauty and its benefits for people and nature, restoring and revitalizing disadvantaged and underserved communities, as well as those dealing with the aftermath of natural disasters, we’re dedicated to helping our affiliates and local partners grow their impact.
THE 2025 KAB COMMUNITY GRANT APPLICATION PERIOD IS OPEN!
Learn about our Community Grant opportunities!
Keep America Beautiful® (KAB) is the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization. Through a coalition of corporate sponsors, KAB seeks innovative grant applications for programs that will unify communities as they address their community improvement and environmental needs. These grants support our 700-member affiliate network and other communities in building clean, green, and beautiful neighborhoods; preventing littering, and promoting recycling.
Keep America Beautiful encourages applicants to use these grant opportunities to leverage local resources and encourage volunteers to sign up and take action in their community.
HOW IT WORKS
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- reduce pollution in American communities by collecting cigarette waste from public spaces and waterways and recycling it;
- build strong, beautiful neighborhoods within and along Martin Luther King Jr. corridors
- plant trees and establish green public spaces for their multiple environmental, social and economic benefits
- promote recycling and waste reduction
Grant availability varies per year and depends on funding secured from sponsors and partners.
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Case Studies from Past Grant Recipients
MARTIN LUTHER KING CORRIDOR COMMUNITY GRANT
Keep America Beautiful (“KAB”) is pleased to provide a Community Grant to empower communities to revitalize, beautify and transform areas in and around Martin Luther King Jr. corridors and neighborhoods.
Examples of MLK Neighborhood grant projects:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
Have a question about the Community Grants Program?
Please contact Gabriela Polo at gpolo@kab.org
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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.