Improve the appearance of your community by creating beautiful, well-maintained community entry points and roadways with the support of a Keep Louisiana Beautiful Beautification Grant.
2025-26 Keep Louisiana Beautiful Beautification Grant Application
Grant Description
Grant Purpose: The KLB Beautification Grant provides funding to help improve the appearance of communities throughout Louisiana by creating beautiful, well-maintained community entry points and roadways. People are less likely to litter in areas that display community pride and that are well maintained and beautiful, so reducing litter in highly visible areas is an additional key driver of this grant. Grant projects should enhance and beautify entry points of municipalities and parishes, or highly trafficked roadway medians. KLB seeks projects that have diverse community support, volunteer involvement, collaboration with stakeholders and benefit many community members.
Grant Type:
- $1,000 to $10,000 reimbursement grant.
- Minimum 15% cash match, in-kind donation or equivalent volunteer hours value is required
- Project must be on public property and completed on or before May 22, 2026.
Funding: The grant focus is to fund the purchase of native trees, shrubs, perennial plants landscaping materials and welcome signs to enhance and beautify entry points of municipalities and parishes, or highly visible and trafficked roadway medians. Plantings must account for a sizable portion of the project. The grant project must be completed on or before May 22, 2026. Reimbursements will be dispersed once the project and all the grant requirements are completed and the Final Report, including receipts and documentation for reimbursement is submitted to KLB by May 22, 2026.
- 25% of the plantings must be native to Louisiana
- Annual plants will not be funded
- Soil, mulch, pavers, edging and related landscaping materials, when incorporated into a planting project, may not exceed 25% of grant request
- Welcome sign materials, when incorporated into a planting project, may not exceed 25% of grant request
- Contractors to assist with the project may not exceed 25% of grant request
- A 15% in-kind or cash match, or equivalent volunteer hours value is required
This grant is made possible with funding from the State of Louisiana and the Office of the Lt. Governor.
Timeline:
- June 20, 2025: Deadline to submit application.
- May 22, 2026: Projects completed. Final report and reimbursement requests and documentation due.
Eligibility Guidelines:
Eligible to apply are Louisiana parishes, and municipalities
All applicants must submit Form W-9
All applicants must be in good standing with the Louisiana Secretary of State
All applicants must be a State Certified Vendor. Register: doa.la.gov/doa/osp/vendor-resources/
Application must be submitted by the deadline and be completed in its entirety.
Requirements and Terms: Failure to abide by all the requirements and/or submit the completed final report by May 22, 2026, will result in non-reimbursement for this grant and ineligibility for subsequent KLB grants. To be awarded a grant, applicants agree to the following:
Gardens and plantings must be on public property.
Applying for this grant must be pre-approved by the applying entity’s highest authorizing official.
A letter from the highest authorizing official, approving use of the public space for this grant project and agreeing to maintain the project must be uploaded with this application.
A Grant Agreement must be signed between the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism (DCRT) and the grant recipient (Grantee) before reimbursable work or purchases can begin on the grant project. The grantee must abide by the approved grant budget as documented in the Agreement.
All Grantees must attend a mandatory scheduled webinar before KLB will issue the Agreement.
A minimum 15% cash, in-kind, or equivalent volunteer hours value match is required.
Any project that requests funding for a “Welcome” sign must include some type of planting (garden or trees) to enhance the area surrounding the sign.
Projects must have an irrigation plan and a maintenance plan. Plans must be uploaded with the application.
Projects must have a plant design that must be uploaded with the application. The design does not have to be done by a professional landscape designer. It can be a sketch, but it must have sufficient detail to describe the project and show that the project has been well thought out. Plant and tree types, quantity and placement, and hardscape materials and placement must be identified.
Community engagement and volunteer support are required.
A small sign provided by KLB must be staked in the garden area acknowledging KLB’s and the Lt. Governor’s support of the project for at least one month after the project has been completed. A photo of the sign at the final project site must be uploaded in the Final Report.
A grant award acknowledgement letter must be sent to Grantee’s state representatives and senator. A copy must be uploaded with the Final Report.
A press release announcing that Grantee received a KLB grant must be sent to the local media. A copy must be uploaded with the Final Report.
Two social media posts must be made:
1) By 30 days after Agreement is executed, grantee must announce on social media channels that Grantee received a KLB Beautification Grant and mention how the grant will help the community. The Grantee must tag @LouisianaLtGov, and Keep Louisiana Beautiful – on Facebook and Instagram tag @keeplouisianabeautiful and – on Twitter tag @keeplabeautiful.
2) At the conclusion of the project, Grantee must make a second social media post announcing the outcome and showing photos of the completed project tagging as instructed above.
Photos of both media posts must be uploaded in the Final Report.“Before” photographs of the proposed project site must be submitted with the application, and “after” photographs of the project, including the KLB acknowledgement sign, must be submitted with the Final Report.
Beautification Grant projects must be completed on or before May 22, 2026.
Changes in grant scope and/or budget as outlined in the Agreement must be pre-approved by KLB.
A completed Final Report, photographs, press release, acknowledgement letters, social media photos and reimbursement request with proper receipts and documentation must be submitted to KLB by May 22, 2026. The Final Report may be submitted before the deadline upon project completion but will not be accepted after May 22, 2026.
Grantees must register for, conduct, and submit a report for a KLB Love the Boot Week event tentatively scheduled for April 2026.
Directions
Before beginning an application, download the sample application, gather information, and prepare responses. After starting the online application, a link will be provided to return to and complete the application, if necessary. Save the provided link, as KLB cannot provide this. Follow these suggested steps to completing the application successfully:
Download the sample application by clicking the button below.
2025-26 Grant Recipients
Caddo Parish
City of Shreveport: The City of Shreveport will replace signage and add trees to the Shreveport Regional Airport entrance.
Jefferson Parish
Town of Jean Lafitte: The Town of Jean Lafitte will enhance the city’s entrance with native plants and lighting to create a vibrant, inviting, and eco-friendly environment.
Lafayette Parish
City of Scott: The City of Scott will enhance beautification efforts in areas adjacent to Scott’s Veterans Memorial at the Rail Park, as well as the entrance into the downtown area.
Lafayette Consolidated Government: Lafayette Consolidated Government will complete two projects that include a Cajun Prairie Entryway and enhancements to Moncus Park.
Lafourche Parish
City of Thibodaux: The City of Thibodaux will enhance Edwin H. Chiasson, Sr. Memorial Park with a new sign and plants as well as trees throughout the park.
Lincoln Parish
City of Grambling: The City of Grambling will beautify the city’s entrance with native plants and a professionally designed welcome sign.
Ouachita Parish
City of West Monroe: The City of West Monroe will enhance five distinct, highly trafficked locations within the city with native plants.
Plaquemines Parish
Plaquemines Parish Government: Plaquemines Parish Government will improve the city’s existing welcome signs with native flowers and plants.
St. Bernard Parish
St. Bernard Parish Government: St. Bernard Parish Government will enhance seven entryways to the St. Bernard Bike Trail leading into native plant gardens.
St. Mary Parish
City of Morgan City: The City of Morgan City will install flower beds containing Louisiana native plants to enrich green spaces, reduce maintenance, and promote sustainability on Main Street.
Tangipahoa Parish
City of Ponchatoula: The City of Ponchatoula will revitalize the city’s entrance with a new welcome sign and native plants.
