GREENSPACE

Transforming Unloved Places into Community Assets

The deadline for applications for a 2012 greenspace grant has passed, and we are in the midst of choosing our grant winners. Grant applications for 2013 projects will be available on our website in June 2012, with a deadline of the first Friday in August.

IPL Project GreenSpace supports partnerships with neighborhood-based organizations to help eliminate blight and provide the expertise and resources to revitalize neighborhoods and public spaces.

Since 1995, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc., in partnership with Indianapolis Power & Light Company (IPL) and the City of Indianapolis, has helped neighborhoods, schools, churches, and other community-based organizations create beautiful places from vacant lots, old parking lots, medians, or little used areas. Often, these sites are neglected and overgrown—inviting littering, illegal dumping, or worse! These little-used, undervalued, or detrimental places are transformed into community assets--green and beautiful places that build community, encourage community pride, and add value to neighborhoods across Indianapolis.

With our help, you can create a Pocket Park, landscape beautification, environmental planting, community vegetable garden, or neighborhood gateway.

Our grants are “project management” grants, meaning that we bring the plant material, tools, and project management expertise to the project, the applicant brings volunteers to do the work, provides lunch, and so forth. The key thing we look for in the application is a maintenance plan, who and how will you take care of the plantings once KIB is done helping you bring your vision to life? Projects with a strong maintenance plan will win out over the competition to receive a grant.

• How-To Guide on Creating your own GreenSpace

• Printable GreenSpace Brochure

• Information about Community Vegetable Gardens

• Detailed Maintenance Agreement for your Pocket Park

• LIST OF 2012 GREENSPACE AND POCKET PARK SCHEDULED PROJECTS

Check our grant application pages to see how to get organized and ready, and to see how to go about working with us on your project. Any group is eligible to apply. Our applications are a competitive process, so the more people you have involved and the more organized your group is, the more likely you will receive a project grant from us.

Get involved in helping another oroganization realize their dream of a greenspace.

Read about a recent greenspace success story.

Go to our GreenSpace history and photo gallery.

Special thanks to our partners!