Outdoor Recreation Roundtable (ORR), the nation’s leading coalition of outdoor recreation associations, is excited to announce two new grant opportunities designed to help rural communities build, improve, and activate outdoor recreation assets and programs that strengthen local economies, improve community health, expand access to the outdoors, and enhance quality of life.

The new grant opportunities, made possible with support from the Richard King Mellon Foundation, LOR Foundation, and The VF Foundation, build on ORR’s longstanding rural development work and its continued partnership with the Recreation Economy for Rural Communities (RERC) program. The new grant programs are designed to advance ORR’s vision for America’s Outdoor Era, a national effort to position outdoor recreation as a cornerstone of health infrastructure. America’s Outdoor Era calls for expanded access to the outdoors, stronger partnerships between healthcare and the outdoor recreation economy, and greater recognition of time outside as essential to physical and mental health, particularly in rural America.

See application links for the respective grant programs below. Both grant applications open June 16 and close July 10. 

Recreation Economy for Rural Communities Rural Recreation Grant Program

Eligibility: Past and current participants in the Recreation Economy for Rural Communities Program. 

 

 

 

ORR Rural Outdoor Recreation and Health Grant Program — Mountain West

Eligibility: Rural communities in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, or Wyoming.