Deadline: 15-Oct-21
The Colorado Health Foundation’s Capital Infrastructure – Intergenerational/Family Physical Activity funding opportunity will support capital infrastructure projects that are accessible, structured, safe, culturally responsive to the communities being served and affordable.
More specifically, this funding opportunity will focus on the design and construction of public spaces in high-need areas that create access, are intergenerational and encourage physical activity for individuals of all ages and abilities, especially for families with children ages 4-14.
Priority will be given to projects that serve economically disadvantaged rural communities and communities of color that have no public space for physical activity or can demonstrate the need to replace existing unsafe or outdated equipment in public spaces, including playgrounds. This funding opportunity will not support freestanding equipment, athletic courts and fields, general maintenance and programming.
Focus Area
- Maintain Healthy Bodies
Priority
Priority will be given to projects that:
- Serve economically disadvantaged rural or frontier (as defined by the Colorado Rural Health Center) communities and communities of color that have no public space for physical activity or demonstrate the need to replace existing unsafe or outdated equipment in the public space.
Eligible Funding
Examples of project elements and features we’re interested in funding:
- Activation: Up to 15% of funds can be used for promotional environmentally-friendly materials and events, including a one-time groundbreaking ceremony.
- Community-based Planning: Funds should be used to meaningfully engage youth, parents and community members of all ages and racial/ethnic backgrounds in the planning and designing process to facilitate ownership and empowerment.
- Fitness Stations and Trails: Up to 50% of funds can be used to purchase and install fitness stations and trails in combination with the purchase and installation of active play equipment for kids and equipment that encourages intergenerational physical activity and supervision.
- Fixed Infrastructure: Funds can be used to purchase tangible, immovable, age-appropriate, outdoor play space equipment for diverse age groups and necessary associated surfacing.
- Playground Markings: Funds can be used to support costs associated with painting the play area and public space with colorful, engaging and stimulating game and activity patterns that encourage physical activity.
- Signage: Up to 10% of funds can be used to purchase and install clear and identifiable signage and information in and around the public space to provide directions to the play spaces and to encourage use of the equipment.
- Weather Protection: Up to 15% of funds can be used to purchase structures for sun, rain and snow protection, including canopies and trees, to encourage intergenerational use year-round.
Criteria
To be considered for funding, applicants must demonstrate within the grant application how the proposed capital project meets the following criteria:
- Primarily benefit low-income Coloradans. They will consider the location of the project and other indicators used by your organization to determine who will have convenient access to use the space (e.g., free and reduced lunch rates for surrounding schools; average income of residents in the surrounding neighborhood).
- Shovel-ready projects that demonstrate advanced planning stages for which construction can begin in a short period of time.
- A plan to draw residents of all ages, especially families with children ages 4-14, to encourage physical activity and strengthen community building. If on school grounds, the space must be open to the general public during non-school hours, including evenings, weekends and school breaks.
For more information, visit The Colorado Health Foundation.
For more information, visit https://coloradohealth.org/funding-opportunities/capital-infrastructure-intergenerational-physical-activity