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
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/25/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Planning & Capacity Program recognizes that the broad, complex natural resource and outdoor recreation needs of Colorado’s communities requires a program that values thoughtful, comprehensive planning efforts to best understand the needs and opportunities and to design adequate strategies and solutions. 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.
The program accommodates a wide range of projects, including strategic plans and master plans. They also invest in capacity-building and education efforts that help the partners make better informed decisions and take the appropriate actions. Opportunities designed to create a pathway to career building opportunities for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and others who identify as nonwhite, people with disabilities, members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community, and candidates from other marginalized communities will also be considered. Through this program, GOCO also invests in research projects to share and further knowledge and facilitate learning in conservation and recreation, as well as community engagement and educational efforts that develop and foster networks, partnerships, and collaborations. Finally, this program supports storytelling projects, helping our partners communicate the impacts, benefits, and challenges outdoor work brings.
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.
Who can apply?
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. GOCO will consider awarding funds to ineligible entities on a case-by-case basis; please contact your regional program officer to discuss. As always, GOCO strongly encourages partnerships.
- 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.
