The Equine Welfare Assistance Grant enhances domestic equine welfare through education and outreach, emergency veterinary care, and shelter support.
Donor Name: Colorado Department of Agriculture (CDA)
State: Colorado
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/06/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Division of Animal Welfare is establishing a new Equine Welfare Assistance Grant to fund projects that advance the wellbeing of Colorado’s domestic equine population.
Due to limited funding, the Division of Animal Welfare has decided to use this grant opportunity to concentrate on initiatives that improve the well-being of Colorado equines requiring additional assistance. A domestic equine is a horse, burro, donkey, or mule that has been tamed and kept as a work or companion animal.
Funding Information
The minimum budget request per application is $10,000 and the maximum budget request per application is $100,000 per entity.
Eligible Project Types
With this grant opportunity, the division will broadly focus on awarding grants in the following categories:
- Education and Outreach Projects:
- Training or certification programs
- Printed educational materials
- Communication/education plans
- Training equipment or supplies
- Youth education
- Other applicable education training related to equine welfare
- Emergency care and veterinary services:
- Estimated emergency care for veterinary services
- Estimated cost for emergency feed or feed banks
- Estimated humane euthanasia and removal costs
- Farrier services
- Other applicable emergency care and veterinary services related to equine welfare
- Shelter support and transportation:
- Costs associated with the intake, care, and rehoming of equines
- Construction or enhancement to existing infrastructure of equine care facilities;
- Storage, including feed bins and water tanks
- Costs associated with transportation contracts
- Emergency response to natural disasters
- Other applicable shelter and transportation support related to equine welfare.
Eligible Activities & Expenses
This grant encourages domestic equine welfare projects in Colorado to support domestic equine welfare and further education, outreach, emergency, and veterinary services for domestic equines in the state. The State in its sole discretion, determines if a Project Type and/ or Expense is ineligible or eligible for this grant. All expenses must be directly related to the goals and outcomes in the grantee application.
Eligible expenses include:
- Salaries
- Allowed for new employees or contractors specifically hired for project management related to this grant.
- Current employees’ salaries cannot be supplemented with this grant. However, if a part-time employee increases their hours to deliver programming for this grant, that expense is allowable.
- Travel expenses (aligned with the rates defined by the US General Services Administration)
- Direct costs including but not limited to:
- Veterinary bills
- Contractor payments
- Indirect costs (maximum 5% of grant award).
Who is eligible?
Eligible entities can be any of the following:
- Non-profit entities;
- For-profit entities;
- Tribal or local government;
- Colleges, universities, or other institutions of higher education.
- Research projects and individual owners or companies seeking funding for care of privately owned equines are not eligible for this grant.
For more information, visit CDA.
