Deadline: 2-Feb-23
Great Outdoors Colorado’s (GOCO) Land Acquisition Program seeks to invest in land conservation projects that protect significant conservation values, connect people to place, create landscape scale connectivity, and bolster the health of people and communities.
GOCO invite partners to work collaboratively to pursue land conservation goals that represent shared priorities among a community. Partners should consider community impacts and elevate diverse perspectives as they develop land conservation projects.
The public benefits of land conservation are significant and multi-faceted. These multi-faceted benefits include protection of their state’s natural resources and ecological systems; supporting healthy communities by providing recreation and education opportunities, local food supplies, and contributing to fresh air and clean water; connection to the environment and a sense of place; and diversifying and supporting local economies. Funding for the outdoors can also be a meaningful equity lever in Colorado—and a means to address issues of disparity and disproportionality. As you develop your land protection project, we ask that you consider and articulate the multi-faceted benefits of your project.
Components
- To support the full scope of a land acquisition project and its intended outcomes, applicants may request funding, as needed, for the following components:
- Land acquisition and due diligence costs,
- Local capacity building through investments in existing staff, community members and/or consultants,
- Community planning, organizing, and collaboration,
- Habitat restoration,
- Site specific management plans, and
- Storytelling, project communications and celebrations.
Eligible Cost
- 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
- All costs associated with acquisition including the property interest(s) and associated due diligence costs
- Costs associated with management planning
- Costs associated with habitat restoration.
Eligibility Criteria
- 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.