Funding Opportunities - Recreation, Arts, and Quality of Life

• Transportation Enhancement Funds (TE-21)
  The Federal Transportation Enhancement Program offers extensive opportunities to take unique and creative actions to integrate transportation into our communities and the natural environment. Transportation enhancement activities can be stand-alone projects or implemented as part of an ongoing transportation project. In either case, the project must relate to the intermodal transportation system in terms of function, proximity or impact. For example, an independent bike path is a functional component of the intermodal transportation system. Removal of outdoor advertising within an individual's view of a highway is justified in light of its proximity. Retrofitting an existing highway by creating a wetland to filter runoff from the highway would qualify based on the impact of the highway in terms of water pollution.
  
  
• Missouri Outdoor Recreation Grants
  The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has two grant programs relating to outdoor recreation, including trail contstruction.
  
  

• National Endowment for the Arts, Grant Opportunities
  The National Endowment for the Arts is a federal agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts - both new and established, bringing the arts to all Americans, and providing leadership in arts education. The agency awards more than $100 million in matching grants to non-profit arts organizations annually.
  
  
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  The Gates Foundation provides funding opportunities to libraries and other educational institutions.