The City of Boulder is seeking applications for its 2025 Human Services Fund.
Donor Name: City of Boulder
State:
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: (mm/dd/yyyy) 08/26/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Through the Human Services Fund (HSF), the City of Boulder invests resources in improving well-being for community members experiencing social or economic disparities. An annual allocation from the city’s general fund serves as the source for this grant program. The HSF supports programs and service delivery that promote the following shared outcomes:

Increased economic stability, mobility, and resilience (e.g., employment, financial assistance, benefits or other earnings, financial literacy, or other forms of self-sufficiency assistance).
Increase the ability for people to obtain and maintain housing (e.g., rental assistance, legal representation for housing, pathways to housing for individuals experiencing homelessness, other services that help with housing retention).
Advance personal growth, development and leadership potential (e.g., childcare; child, teen or adult academic support; youth, adult or older adult training; language access)
Increase safe environment for people with diverse identities (e.g., through advocacy, legal representation, protection from violence or other form of vulnerability).
Increase positive physical, mental or behavioral health and wellbeing (e.g., direct health care, wellness, food security or nutrition, social connectivity).
Increased ability among community members to access critical services (e.g., transportation, digital divide, culturally centered assistance programs, independent living).

Funding Information
Proposals must request a minimum of $10,000 with at least $8,000 in eligible program expenses.
Grant Period
January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2025.
Proposal Criteria 
Proposals submitted in response to this RFP will be evaluated based on whether the proposed program: 

Benefits people experiencing systemic socio-economic barriers or disparities; have been historically excluded and/or are in need of basic needs assistance; 
Has leadership (agency board, staff and volunteers) that reflects the demographic diversity of clients served
Aligns with a selected human services outcome; 
Demonstrates sound research, evidence-based best practices; 
Values lived experience, cultural knowledge and wisdom; 
Demonstrates strong and long-term evaluation of outcomes, or the potential for such evaluation; 
Meaningfully engages community members experiencing disparities in the design, implementation and/or evaluation of the proposed program; 
Demonstrates strong collaboration and transformative, equitable partnerships that move beyond informal relationships;
Demonstrates a cost-effective approach that benefits program participants, target populations or the community; 
Demonstrates that the agency currently has, or demonstrates a plan for achieving sustained financial stability and organizational leadership; 
Exhibits diverse funding sources or a plan to achieve diverse funding.

Eligibility Criteria 
Through the HSF, the city will fund programs rather than entire organizations, institutions, or agencies. Eligible programs may be located in nonprofit organizations, government agencies, or public or private educational organizations (i.e., pre-K-12 school or college/university. Businesses and for-profit agencies should not apply.’
Ineligibility 
The Human Services Fund (HSF) does not support: 

Arts, cultural, sport and/or recreation programs; 
One-time presentations, events, activities, advocacy, outreach, or marketing campaigns that are not directly associated with ongoing human services programming; 
General staff training or professional development programs outside of data collection, evaluation, or systems integration work; 
Outreach and educational campaigns that do not include long-term evaluation; 
Contributions to a political campaign or committee for a candidate or ballot measure; 
Political lobbying or political advocacy campaigns to promote legislation or specific governmental policies, or express advocacy as defined in Boulder Revised Code section 13-2-2;
Programs that cannot be directly linked to specific outcomes and indicators; 
General operating funds or expenses (e.g., general salaries of staff not directly involved in providing services for the proposed program, rent/mortgage, utilities, professional development, fundraising, or other expenses) that are not directly related to carrying out the program; 
Programs that cannot demonstrate established data collection or evaluation activities; 
Individual applicants; 
Programs proposing the same activities that are currently supported by other City of Boulder Department of Housing and Human Services funding1; or 
Programs that are heavily reliant on a single funder, including the City of Boulder; or do not have a plan to request funding from other sources.

For more information, visit City of Boulder.