This week in Grants
USA Pickleball Serves' Grant Program
The "Grow the Game Grant," administered by USA Pickleball Serves, provides equipment bundles to community organizations and schools within the country. This program is geared towards groups that are beginning new Pickleball programs in their communities or maintaining programs to increase exposure to the sport. These bundles include Pickleball Paddles, indoor balls, court markers, poly dots, and pickleball nets. Interested applicants must be members of USA Pickleball before applying, and applications are due by December 16, 2025.
You can find more information on this program here.
NEH - Landmarks of American History and Culture
The National Endowment for the Humanities' (NEH) "Landmarks of American History and Culture" program funds organizations to host a series of one-week residential, virtual, and combined format workshops. These workshops enhance how K-12 educators and higher education faculty, and humanities professionals, incorporate place-based approaches to humanities teaching and scholarship. Workshops funded by this program:
Offer participants enhanced knowledge of content through humanistic inquiry, experiential learning, discussions, readings, lectures, meetings with community members, and multimedia presentations.
Include place-based learning activities, such as visits to museums, libraries, archives, markers, sites, monuments, memorials, etc.
Engage in the design of public humanities and experiential learning activities such as collecting oral histories, working with digital mapping resources, and developing collaborations with community members or local organizations.
Funding Amount: Up to $190,000
Application Deadline: 2/11/26
More information can be found here.
NJDOT - Local Freight Impact Fund
The New Jersey Department of Transportation's (NJDOTG) "Local Freight Impact Fund" awards projects that enhance the safe movement of large truck traffic, renew aging structures that carry large truck traffic, promote economic development, and support new transportation opportunities within the state.
This program funds projects in the following categories:
Roadway Preservation - for projects that improve pavement conditions in support of freight travel on municipal/county transportation infrastructure.
Truck Safety and Mobility - for projects that improve large truck access, routing, and mobility along the municipal/county roadway system.
Bridge Preservation - for projects that improve bridge ratings/conditions in support of freight travel on municipal/county transportation infrastructure.
New Construction - for projects that promote new construction in support of freight travel on municipal/county transportation infrastructure.
Pedestrian Safety - for projects that improve pedestrian access to freight networks, address pedestrian safety, and promote equity for those without the option to drive.
Pavement Preservation - for projects that renew the road surface and correct irregularities while preserving and protecting the underlying pavement structure.
Funding Amount: $28,000,000 in total program funding.
Application Deadline: 12/17
You can find more information here.