GOCO Planning & Capacity Grant Program in Colorado
This grant provides funding to Colorado municipalities, non-profits, and other eligible entities for projects that enhance planning, capacity, research, and education related to outdoor conservation and recreation, particularly for under-represented individuals.
Description
The Great Outdoors Colorado’s Planning & Capacity grants help the partners in planning, capacity, research, pathways to career building opportunities for under-represented individuals, education, and storytelling projects that address opportunities, explore issues, and examine trends in the outdoors.
Donor Name: Great Outdoors Colorado
State: Colorado
County: All Counties
Concept Paper Due: 10/24/2024
Deadline: 12/16/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The program invests in:
Planning
Capacity
Research
Pathways to career building opportunities for under-represented individuals
Education projects that explore opportunities, issues, and trends in the outdoors.
Through this program, GOCO will invest in research projects that develop knowledge and facilitate learning, as well as community engagement and education efforts to develop and foster networks, partnerships, and collaboratives. They invite partners to apply for funding to develop local, regional, or statewide plans e.g. master plans, strategic plans, comprehensive plans; to create organizational capacity in order to address a natural or recreational resource need; to research a conservation or recreation issue facing Coloradans; to provide educational opportunities to communities and partners for salient topics needing broad or targeted dissemination.
Eligibility Criteria
This program is open to entities eligible to receive GOCO open space and local government funds as listed below. Ineligible entities can partner with an eligible entity to apply.
Colorado municipality or county
Title 32 special district eligible to receive distributions from the Conservation Trust Fund
Political subdivision of the State of Colorado that includes in its mission the identification, acquisition, or management of open space and natural areas
501(c)(3) non-profit land conservation organization that includes in its mission the identification, acquisition, or management of open space and natural areas, e.g., land trusts
Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
For more information, visit GOCO.