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Safe Routes to School Infrastructure Project Program (Massachusetts) is sponsored by Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT). Helps fund larger-scale bicycle and pedestrian improvements that seek to improve safety, access, and mobility for students in kindergarten through 12th grade, while also encouraging more students to walk, bike, and roll to school.
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Safe Routes to School grants available - Massachusetts Municipal Association (MMA) Public Works, Energy and Utilities Safe Routes to School grants available Home → News → Public Works, Energy and Utilities --> Safe Routes to School, a federally funded program that works to increase safe walking, biking and rolling by public school students, is accepting applications for its Signs and Lines and Infrastructure Project grant programs.
Administered by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, Safe Routes to School uses a collaborative, community-focused approach that bridges the gap between health and transportation. The Signs and Lines program provides design services and up to $10,000 in construction funding to selected municipalities for a low-cost infrastructure project around a public elementary, middle or high school.
The project goal is to eliminate small barriers that students encounter when walking, bicycling or using a wheeled mobility device to get to school. Approved eligible expenses are reimbursed after completion. The application deadline is Sept.
22. The Infrastructure Project program helps fund larger-scale bicycle and pedestrian improvements that seek to improve safety, access and mobility for students in kindergarten through 12th grade, while also encouraging more students to walk, bike and roll to school. Projects must be within two miles of a school in the public right-of-way or along publicly accessible bikeways and pedestrian pathways and trails.
Applications for Infrastructure Projects will be accepted through Oct. 6. Eligible schools must be partnered for at least six months at the time of application.
Applications are available and must be submitted through the Massachusetts Project Intake Tool account . Additional information and guidance documents are available on the Engineering page. Questions may be directed to 888-426-6688 or [email protected] .
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According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Municipalities partnered with eligible schools for at least six months at the time of application. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
Safe Routes to School Infrastructure Project Program (Massachusetts) is funded by Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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Shared Streets and Spaces Program is sponsored by Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT). This program provides funding to municipalities and public transit authorities to quickly implement improvements to plazas, sidewalks, curbs, streets, bus stops, parking areas, and other public spaces in support of public health, safe mobility, and strengthened commerce.
Safe Routes to School Signs and Lines Program (Massachusetts) is sponsored by Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT). Provides design services and construction funding for low-cost infrastructure projects around public elementary, middle, or high schools to eliminate small barriers students encounter when walking, bicycling, or using a wheeled mobility device to get to school.
The Cummings Foundation's flagship program will award $35 million to roughly 150 eastern-Massachusetts nonprofits in 2027, up from $30 million — and nearly all of it now flows as unrestricted general operating support. Letters of Inquiry opened July 15 and close September 16, 2026. Here is who qualifies, how the multi-year and 10-year tracks work, and how to write an LOI that survives the first cut.
Read articleCummings Foundation grew its annual local program from $30 million to $35 million for 2026 awards, but the dollar increase is the smaller story. Nearly every grant now flows as unrestricted general operating support — the funding nonprofits ask for most and receive least. For eligible Massachusetts organizations, the 2027 cycle opens July 15 with a September 16 letter-of-inquiry deadline. Here is who qualifies, why the shift to operating support changes the calculus, and how a small nonprofit should approach a program that hands out 150 grants a year, most of them chosen by community volunteers.
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