American Hiking Society Invites Applications for National Trails Fund
Deadline: November 1, 2006
The American Hiking Society's National Trails Fund is the only privately funded, national grant program dedicated solely to protecting hiking trails. Awards range from $500 to $10,000 per project. Now in its seventh year, the fund has awarded more than $290,000 to 73 grassroots organizations all over the U.S. working to establish, protect, and maintain foot trails in America.
The program's priorities include: funding projects that have hikers as the primary constituency (however, all human powered trail uses are applicable); securing trail lands, including acquisition of trails and trail corridors, and the costs associated with acquiring conservation easements; building and maintaining trails which will result in visible and substantial ease of access, improved hiker safety, and/or avoidance of environmental damage (higher preference is often given to projects with volunteer labor); and constituency building surrounding specific trail projects -- including volunteer recruitment and support.
Grants are typically for amounts between $500 and $10,000 each.
Applicants must be nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations.
Complete program information and application are available at the American Hiking Society.
