Deadline: 2/3/22 (Part 1)
Amount: $10,000-$134,000 (typical grant size: $25,000-$90,000)
Website: https://caringforcolorado.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Grant-Application-Overview_2022.pdf
Description:
Caring for Colorado Foundation’s grantmaking program is rooted in its purpose of achieving equity, health, and well-being for Colorado’s children and families. When reviewing applications and assessing alignment, the Foudation relies on several grantmaking guiding principles:
• We center the health and well-being of all children, youth and their families, and we prioritize resources and attention to children living in families with low incomes, children and youth of color, and children and youth who experience systemic injustice.
• We center the voice and perspective of children, youth, families and caregivers and support efforts that seek, integrate, and respond to their insights and solutions.
• We center organizations that are rooted in and trusted by the children, youth and communities they serve.
Caring for Colorado Foundation Focus Areas are:
• Healthy Beginnings
• Healthy Youth
• Strong and Resilient Families
• Public Policy Advocacy
For eligible organizations and proposals aligned with our Focus Areas, funding may support general operations, programs/projects, capacity building, collaboration or systems-building efforts. Proposals longer than 12 months are considered.
The primary components of Part I of the online grant application include:
- Proposal Overview (completed in the online form)
- Organization Name
- Select yes if your proposal is a general operating request or no if it is a program request.
- Proposal Title
- Proposal Summary
- Total Amount Requested
- Proposal Duration in Months
- Geographic Area Served
- Proposal Overview Template—Please use the Proposal Overview Template to write and edit answers before entering them on the online form. The overview cannot exceed three pages using 12-point font.
Applicants moving forward will receive an email invitation outlining next steps within three weeks of the Part 1 deadline date. Caring for Colorado Foundation encourages all applicants to view our recorded informational webinar here and attend our upcoming Focus Area Q&A webinars. Registration for Q&A sessions is limited to 40 individuals, so register today to secure your spot!
Eligible applicants:
Caring for Colorado will consider applications from and awards to organizations who benefit Colorado and are:
- Charitable nonprofit organizations with tax-exempt classification from the Internal Revenue Service; or
- Tax-supported institutions including state and local governments and schools.
Note that new or emerging organizations are permitted to apply through a tax-exempt organization acting as fiscal agent. The most common type of fiscal agent arrangement is between a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization and a non-tax-exempt group. The fiscal agent has the ultimate authority and responsibility to see that the funds are used for the purpose intended; it cannot simply be a pass-through organization.
Caring for Colorado does not fund:
- For-profit entities
- Annual appeals or membership drives
- Financial support for political candidates
- Fee-based programming without a robust sliding scale
- Pregnancy resource centers
- Research (costs specifically associated with the research process such as design, investigation or analysis)
PROGRAM CONTACT
Caring for Colorado Foundation
1635 W. 13th Avenue, Suite 303
Denver, CO 80204
(720)-524-0770, info@caringforcolorado.org