Looking for funding opportunities for active transportation projects? Look below for the latest funding opportunities!
Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-saving Transportation Program (PROTECT)
The US DOT’s PROTECT program provides funding to ensure surface transportation resilience to natural hazards including climate change, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather events, and other natural disasters through support of planning activities, resilience improvements, community resilience and evacuation routes, and at-risk coastal infrastructure. This includes highways, public transportation, ports, and intercity passenger rail. The PROTECT discretionary program offers two types of awards: planning grants and Competitive Resilience Improvement Grants. The Notice of Funding Opportunity has officially launched and applications are due no later than 11:59 p.m. ET on Monday, February 24, 2025. See the FY25 PROTECT NOFO for more information.
Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) Grant Program
The US Department of Transportation (US DOT) has officially launched the Fiscal Year 2025 cycle of their RAISE grant program and are accepting applications! The program helps project sponsors at the state and local levels, including municipalities, Tribal governments, counties, and others complete critical freight and passenger transportation infrastructure projects. The eligibility requirements of RAISE allow project sponsors to obtain funding for projects that may be harder to support through other U.S. DOT grant programs. Learn more about the program in the FY25 RAISE Notice of Funding Opportunity
Applications close on January 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM ET. You can find out more on the program website.
Road to Zero Coalition Community Traffic Safety Grants Program
The National Safety Council’s Road to Zero Coalition Community Traffic Safety Grants Program, funded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, is an annual opportunity to put the Road to Zero pillars into practice by supporting promising projects and programs that can help achieve the mission of zero traffic fatalities. It is focused on supporting innovative and promising approaches for implementing evidence-based countermeasures, supporting a Safe System approach, and performing necessary research to address traffic fatalities, disparities in mobility safety and access, and overall improve traffic safety. To be eligible, applicants must be a Road to Zero Coalition Member and either a non-profit organization, government entity, federally-recognized Indian Tribes, Tribal Organizations, Urban Indian Organizations, or other entity that operates within the United States.
Applications are now open until 11:55 p.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. Visit the program's website for more details on how to apply.
Smart Growth America’s Champions Institute
Smart Growth America’s Champions Institute provides mayors, city councilors, tribal chairpeople and councilors, and other local elected officials with knowledge and resources to support plans, policies, and funding that promote activity-friendly routes to everyday destinations. Applications are now open for the 2025 Champions Institute cohort until Friday, January 17, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. ET! For more information on how to apply, visit the program website today.
Sustainable Transportation Planning Grants
Caltrans’ Sustainable Transportation Planning Grants program provides a total of $37.7 million for transportation planning projects statewide, including approximately $3 million in Climate Adaptation Planning grants. For Native American Tribal Governments, the Limited Waiver of Sovereign Immunity requirement has been removed, the local match requirement has been removed, and there are up to $3 million in funding set-asides available – up to $2 million for Sustainable Communities and up to $1 million for Climate Adaptation Planning.
Applications are due January 22, 2025 by 5 PM PT. For more information on the Grants program and how to apply, visit the program's website.
Tribal Transportation Program Safety Fund (TTPSF)
The US DOT’s TTPSF provides funding each year under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), as enacted by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58), to address transportation safety issues identified by federally recognized Indian tribes through the competitive, discretionary program. Projects are chosen whose outcomes will reduce fatal and serious injuries in transportation related incidents, such as motor vehicle crashes. Applications for the 2025 TTP Safety Fund will be accepted October 1, 2024 through January 15, 2025. Visit the program's website for more information.
Be sure to regularly check our webpage for funding and programming opportunities for improving walking, biking and rolling safety throughout the year at the state, regional and local level.