American Alpine Grants

Every year the American Alpine Club offers grants to climbers for various projects “outside the scope of traditional sponsorship funding”:

The AAC has a storied legacy of funding climbing, conservation, and research projects in support of our mission. Through the years, AAC grants have been responsible for encouraging thousands of climbers to dream big and push their limits; for establishing hundreds of cutting-edge new routes of remote and major peaks around the world; for improving infrastructure at climbing areas across the country; and funding scientific research expeditions that have contributed valuable information to our understanding of the worlds mountain ecosystems.

What would this look like for trail running? And for that matter, what would an American Alpine Club for trail running look like?