Deadline: 30-Dec-21
The Community Foundation Boulder County announces the first open funding opportunity from the Boulder County Crisis Fund, a fund created to respond to the mass shooting at the Table Mesa King Soopers.
Funding Information
- A total of $100,000 will be available to grant for this RFP. The maximum grant amount available will be $10,000. Only one grant will be made per applicant.
Geographic Boundaries of Eligibility
- North: Baseline Rd
- East: 36, South Boulder Rd, Cherryvale Rd
- South: Marshall Rd, Eldorado Springs Dr.
- West: Open Space
Eligible Activities
- Be designed in response to the March 22 shooting and disasters of the last year.
- Have community healing as the primary purpose of activities proposed.
- Be planned and implemented with a trauma-informed lens, and in demonstrated consultation with the BoulderStrong Resource Center or other a trauma therapist, or victim advocate.
- Be primarily designed to gather and support the residents within the eligible boundaries but may be open to participants from the larger Boulder community.
- Have at least one host of proposed activities that is located within the eligible geographic boundaries.
- Expect at least 12 unrelated people to attend or benefit from proposed activities.
- Not have a particular religious, political or policy agenda or message.
- If hosted by a congregation, will be nonsectarian or interfaith, and designed to attract community members beyond the host congregation.
- Take place in a publicly accessible location.
- Actively promote equitable access for people from historically underrepresented communities.
- Adhere to all social distancing/COVID-19 requirements in effect at the time of proposed activities.
- Provide documentation of written consent of the property owner(s) if grantee is a tenant or otherwise unaffiliated with proposed activity location(s).
- Be free of charge and open to the public.
- Event will follow all local laws and obtain required permits.
Eligibility Criteria
- Grantees must be currently recognized as a public charity in the United States, including nonprofits with 501(c)(3), or governmental [170(c)(1)], or educational and religious institutions. Groups or organizations that do not have such designations may only apply in partnership with an IRS-qualified entity as a fiscal sponsor. The Boulder County Arts Alliance has agreed to provide fiscal sponsorship for those that are not recognized as public charities.
- Grantees must use grant proceeds only for the stated purpose of the grant, and within the stated timelines.
- Grants from Community Foundation Boulder County are exclusively for activities in Boulder County and for the benefit of Boulder County residents.
- Community Foundation Boulder County does not make grants to organizations where grant money from their unrestricted or field of interest funds would be used to further a particular political or religious doctrine.
For more information, visit https://www.commfound.org/grants/get-grant/crisis-fund/request-proposals