The City of Boulder is now accepting applications for its Human Relations Fund.
Donor Name: City of Boulder
State: Colorado
City: Boulder
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/28/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Human Relations Fund (HRF) supports community-initiated activities that focus on or raise awareness of civil rights, human rights, or equity issues and problems in Boulder; facilitate interaction, understanding, collaboration and civic participation among diverse communities; or enable communities that experience marginalization to celebrate events significant to them while providing learning opportunities to the general population.
Fundinig Information
The city anticipates awarding approximately $85,000 in funding in 2025 to qualified community organizations through a competitive application process.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofit organizations and individual organizers under the fiscal sponsorship of a nonprofit
- Projects that have a significant component of programming that impacts residents of Boulder
- Events that take place within the city limits of Boulder
- Projects that reinforce the goals of respect for diversity, inclusivity, and equity
- Activities that are free of charge for participants and open to the public
- Additional criteria considered include:
- Projects that are community-led
- Collaboration with other organizations
- Diversity among planners and decision makers
- Inclusivity among participants
- Access to people with disabilities
- Projects or activities that provide opportunities for communities that experience marginalization
- Activities that advance the ongoing and annual priorities of the HR
- Ability or inability to access multiple sources of funding
- Projects that have not received prior funding from HRF
- The extent to which the project or activity might engage and educate the larger community
- The program or event for which you are seeking funding, take place in the City of Boulder and/or will engage community members in the city?
- The HRF will not fund:
- Proposals that are not from community organizations
- Groups that have failed to meet their contractual requirements with the HRF in the past
- Projects that do not have a significant component of programming that impacts residents of Boulder
- Activities that charge fees for participants.
For more information, visit City of Boulder.
