Facilities Grant Application

Following is the information required to submit a facilities grant application.

Read the narrative requirements below. Then click on the file icon at the bottom of the page to download a Word document into which you can type your answers.

Facilities Grant Application Narrative

Please provide the following information in narrative form. Throughout the narrative, list a reference before each section. For example, put a header that says, “B. Purpose of the Grant – 1. Specific Activities – a) Goals,” when describing the proposal’s specific goals.

The narrative, excluding attachments, should not exceed seven pages. Incomplete or excessively long applications will not be considered.

1. Organizational Information
   1. Summary of your organization’s mission, long-term goals, and history. If you are not a bicycle advocacy organization, describe why and how you are invested in putting more people on bicycles more often.
   2. Description of successes in recent projects and programs.
2. Purpose of the Grant
   1. SITUATION
      1. Need: Explain why your project is important and necessary right now, for you and for the bicycling community.
      2. Environment: Briefly describe current bicycling conditions in your project’s market area, including infrastructure, programs, allies, and resistance that must be overcome.
   2. SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES: Short-term Goals
      1. Goals: List the goals of the project.
      2. Action Plan: Present a clear plan for reaching these goals. Be specific—describe your accomplishments so far, list individuals or groups assigned to tasks, and outline due dates/timetables for achieving your goals.
   3. IMPACT OF YOUR WORK: Long-term Goals
      1. Deliverables: Describe the measurable outcomes of your project and the methodology used to determine these outcomes. If applicable, please include the miles of path/trail you will be building and the miles of trail facilities connected by your project.
      2. Ridership: Include the total population of your market area and a projected number of new cyclists as a result of your project.
3. Evaluation
   1. Explain strategies and plans for determining your project’s success—both in the short term and in the long term.
   2. Describe how your project could serve as a model for other communities.
4. Project Budget
   1. Describe the total budget for the project and how the funding from Bikes Belong will be spent. Be specific.
   2. Note all other sources of funding (committed or proposed). Will the Bikes Belong funding leverage federal, state, or private funds? Will it help serve as a matching grant?
5. Attachments
   1. FINANCIALS
      1. Financial statements from your most recently completed fiscal year (If you are a municipality, please submit only ONE copy of your financials. A link to online financials is fine.)
      2. Organizational budget for the present year
   2. OTHER SUPPORT MATERIALS
      1. Support letters from the local bicycle industry*
      2. List of board members and their affiliations
      3. Map/plan of the project and area (if applicable)
      4. Media articles, if available

*Support letters from the local bicycle industry are required and tremendously important to your proposal. Letters from Bikes Belong member companies are preferred. Additional (non-industry) support letters will be considered if they are relevant.