Deadline: 11-Mar-22
The Virginia Outdoors Foundation (VOF) is seeking applications for its Preservation Trust Fund.
The Virginia General Assembly in 1997 and administered by VOF, the Open-Space Lands Preservation Trust Fund (PTF) provides grants for acquisitions, easements, rights of way, and other methods of protecting open space for farming, forestry, recreation, wildlife, water quality, and more.
Funding Information
- There is approximately $1.3 million available for the second grant round of FY 2022.
What types of costs are eligible?
- PTF Public Access grants may pay for any costs that are associated with the conveyance of an interest, right, or privilege in open space to VOF or a local government, including fee-simple acquisition, development rights, public access rights of way, leases, legal costs, and survey costs.
- Components critical for public use of the land may also be included in the grant request such as planning, designing, engineering, and infrastructure.
Eligibility Criteria
- PTF Public Access Grants may be awarded to any person or organization conveying a real estate interest to VOF, or to a locality acquiring such interest, for the purpose of providing or enhancing public access to open space.
For more information, visit https://www.vof.org/protect/grants/ptf/