Great Outdoors Colorado’s (GOCO) 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.
Donor Name: Great Outdoors Colorado
State: Colorado
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/24/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
For FY25, GOCO plans to invest $10.3 million in local government funds and $8.6 million in open space funds to advance projects across all base programs. 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.
Eligible Costs
- Costs associated with project planning/coordination/implementation/communications/ celebration
- Staff expenses incurred by the applicant and any contracted service providers for professional services directly related to project outcomes and administration
- Strategic planning and consulting services
- Staff/board development, training, and workshops
- Costs of surveys, engineering, design, GIS/mapping, etc.
Who can 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.
