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95 Express Lanes’ builder Transurban to award $1.5K grants to non-profits

Transurban, the company that owns and operates the 95 and 495 Express Lanes, has announced a new grant program that will award $1,500 grants to local non-profits.

According to Mike McGurk, a spokesperson for Transurban, the program will award $1,500 grants to three organizations on a quarterly basis as a way to give back to the communities along the Express Lanes.

“[This] is what we’re trying to do to stay invested in the communities where we operate,” McGurk commented.

McGurk stated that this new grant program mirrors another program that Transurban offered back during the construction of the Express Lanes.

“Before this grant program was launched we had two different grant programs during the construction of both the 495 and the 95 Express Lanes. And those were intended to support the directly impacted communities that were along the corridor on 95 and 495…we wanted a way to give back to those communities that were impacted by the construction,” McGurk said.

Any area non-profit can apply for one of the grants online.

The next round of grant applications are due to Transurban by the end of June, McGurk said.

“We’ll begin to review the applications in early July, with an aim to have a decision made with the organization we want to support by the end of the July or early August,” McGurk stated.

Non-profits can apply to the program each fiscal quarter, but if a non-profit receives a grant, they need to wait another calendar year before applying again, commented McGurk.

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