2024-2025 TEXAS RECYCLES DAY GRANT

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TEXAS RECYCLES DAY GRANT

SUPPORTED BY COCA-COLA SOUTHWEST BEVERAGES

ABOUT

Thanks to Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages and in celebration of Texas Recycles Day, Keep Texas Beautiful is proud to announce the Texas Recycles Day Grant. This grant will provide Keep Texas Beautiful affiliates and Keep Texas Recycling members with monetary assistance to help strengthen their existing recycling programs.

Projects must fall within one or more of the following categories:

Education and Outreach
Improvement Projects
Infrastructure and Equipment

GRANT AMOUNT
Applicants can request funding between $5,000-$15,000.

ELIGIBILITY

Eligible applicants are:

Keep Texas Beautiful affiliates in Good Standing or higher, and new KTB affiliates
Keep Texas Recycling Rural Cooperative Members
Special consideration will be given to communities that are members of both KTB and KTR.

CRITERIA

Projects must be completed and funding spent by June 27, 2025. If total project costs exceed the grant amount, the project must be completed using other sources of funding. Please note, the project must be completed in the designated time frame or the funding must be returned to KTB. Applicants must agree to submit a final report on their project by July 31, 2025 (see Timeline section for more details).

Special consideration for all awards will be given to projects that:

Address the collection of PET and/or aluminum cans

Project concepts could include, but are not limited to:

Implementation of a recycling program that accepts at least one post-consumer commodity.
Projects that improve recycling program efficiency and/or cost effectiveness.
Education and outreach projects with a focus on reducing contamination and improving material quality.
Education and outreach projects with a focus on specific recyclable commodities that have not otherwise been accepted for recycling and/or are hard-to-recycle.
Public-private collaborations to improve waste diversion in the community.

Funds may NOT be used for the following purposes:

Repayment of existing debt or obligations
Payment of organizational overhead
Legal fees
Loan or bank fees
Subsidization of existing contracts
Employee salaries & expenses
Land acquisition
Pass-through grants
Field Trips

TIMELINE

September 3, 2024: Grant application opens
October 18, 2024: Grant application must be received by KTB by 5 p.m. CDT
November 15, 2024: Winners announced
March 28, 2025: Progress Report due
June 27, 2025: Projects must be complete and grant funds spent
July 31, 2025: Final report form must be received by KTB by 5 p.m. CDT

Please note: By accepting funds for their project, grant applicants consent to complying with the criteria and deadlines, completing the final report on time. Failure to do so will result in loss of KTB affiliate benefits and future grant participation.

To view more resources for this grant, please visit our website.

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KTR Cooperative Member Location:

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Application Questions - 300 words maximum per question

Please provide a brief description of the project this funding will support.

What are the goals of your project? How will this project impact recycling in your community?

Please provide an estimated itemized project budget. If you are not awarded the full amount of this request, how will the project be adapted? Would this funding be matched by the community or other funding sources?

Please provide an itemized project budget.

Provide an overview of the community’s needs this grant will be used to address, and describe your community’s existing recycling efforts.

Please list the milestone steps needed to accomplish the goals and the expected timeline for the project.

How will you promote and publicize this program in your community? How will financial support from Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages be noted?

Will you partner with schools, nonprofit organizations, or other entities in the community?

Will your project help fill a need in an under-served community?

Describe the sustainability plan for this project. The three parts you should address are community sustainability, financial sustainability, and organizational sustainability of your project.

How would you measure the success of this project and what are the key performance indicators? Examples: Pounds of material collected, number of residents with increase recycling access, number of residents reach through education, etc.

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APPLICATION GUIDELINES

Application must be completed in its entirety and submitted online, with any applicable supporting documents attached.

All questions must be completed with adequate information and detail.
Please DO NOT submit materials that are not requested in the application or support your answer.
Applications must be submitted to KTB by Thursday, October 18, 2024 by 5 p.m. CST.

PROMOTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE FUNDING AWARDEES:

Grant recipients must post 2 photos of their Texas Recycles Day Recycling Grant project to Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and/or Twitter, tagging the following and including the hashtag #keeptexasrecycling

Keep Texas Beautiful - @keeptxbeautiful
Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages- @cocacolaswb

Contribute a brief summary to be used as a case study on the KTB website.
Grantees may be required to participate in a regional press event.

Contact Sara Walters with questions or concerns at swalters@ktb.org

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