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Funding & Technical Assistance
NWCCOG Regional Grants Navigator
NWCCOG has a Regional Grants Navigator on staff to assist with identifying appropriate grant opportunities, reviewing grants prior to submission, or helping to gather letters of support. Feel free to reach out to him for assistance: Jonathan Godes, NWCCOG Regional Grants Navigator - jgodes@nwccog.org.
Federal Opportunities
USDA: Grants for Livestock Protection for Colorado Ranchers
Deadline: Feb. 7 | More info here. The grant funding is being distributed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service office in Colorado and the Western Landowners Alliance. The funding applications opened on Jan. 10 and will remain open until 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7. Applications are available at U.S. Department of Agriculture service centers in northwest Colorado. The funding opportunity is meant to help ranchers offset costs associated with range riding, carcass management, fencing and other tools to reduce wolf-livestock conflicts.
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities & Flood Mitigation Assistance Opportunities
Details here. Colorado communities once again have the opportunity to reduce their long-term risks from natural hazards with assistance from FEMA’s two annual competitive Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) programs: Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) and Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA). These programs help elected officials, public works agencies, capital improvement staff, and other local officials to implement mitigation projects that can dramatically reduce the impacts of a future natural disaster.
USDA Rural Business Development Grant Program
Deadline: Feb. 28, 2025 | Details here. Funds can be used to provide technical assistance and training for small rural businesses. However, individual businesses are not eligible to apply. Funding is instead provided to public entities such as municipalities and nonprofits, and used to benefit rural areas. This is an extremely flexible program that can support a wide variety of economic development projects.
High Energy Cost Grants Program
Deadline: Feb. 28 | Details here. Assists communities with extremely high energy costs. Funds may be used to acquire, construct, or improve energy generation, transmission, or distribution facilities serving communities where the average annual residential expenditure for home energy exceeds 275% of the national average. Eligible projects also include on-grid and off-grid renewable energy projects and the implementation of energy efficiency and energy conservation projects for eligible communities.
PROTECT Discretionary Grant Program
Deadline: Feb. 24, 2025 | Details here. The Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) Discretionary Grant Program, a competitive grant program created by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to help make surface transportation more resilient to natural hazards, including climate change, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather events, and other natural disasters.
Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas Funding
NOFA to be released soon | Details here. U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) issued a Notice of Intent (NOI) for up to $400 million to spur innovative, community-focused clean energy solutions in rural and remote areas across the United States. The anticipated funding plans to support energy technologies that provide clean, resilient, reliable, affordable power, while also aiming to increase local economic development.
State Opportunities
DOLA/Division of Housing Announces 2025 Funding Calendar
Read more here. Announced funding rounds for grants and loans through June 30. The Division of Housing is anticipating up to $134 million of funds being made available to award to projects and programs throughout State Fiscal Year 2025 (July 1, 2024-June 30, 2025). The division has shifted to quarterly, competitive application cycles for rental and homeownership projects. LOI deadline will be 45 days prior to the application deadline to allow time for letters to be published to the division’s website for transparency. The complete funding calendar is available on the Division of Housing website.
Predevelopment of Affordable Housing Grants
Deadline: March 3 | Details here. The Colorado Department of Local Affairs, through its Division of Housing, Office of Housing Finance and Sustainability, is requesting applications for funding for the predevelopment activities of existing properties suitable for the purpose of providing or developing affordable homeownership opportunities for qualifying households at or below 100% of area median income.
Advance Colorado Broadband program: BEAD Funding Round 2
Deadline: February 28 | Details here. Seeking BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment) proposals aimed at reaching the remaining undserved and underserved households. In early January, we published a Round 2 Addendum to the Advance-BEAD Grant Program Guidelines. Many things remain the same from Round 1, with some changes based on stakeholder feedback. Read more here.
Local Planning Capacity Grant (LPC)
Deadline: March 14, 2025 | Details here. An informational webinar for prospective applicants is scheduled for Thursday, January 9, 2025 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. This grant program provides funding to increase Planning Departments’ capacity to advance local affordable housing goals, and implement the fast track requirement in Prop 123.
Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI)
Deadline: March 12, 2025 | Details here. The Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI) program is geared towards rural counties and communities to fund plans, construction, programs, and capacity building for economic development and resilience projects that create or retain jobs.
Natural Disaster Mitigation Enterprise Grant Program
Deadline: April 4 | Details here. The Natural Disaster Mitigation Enterprise (NDME) will fund grants to local governments to implement resilience and natural disaster mitigation measures and match funds required by federal grants dedicated to implement pre-disaster natural disaster mitigation measures. The NDME also provides technical assistance to local governments on natural disaster mitigation.
Community Wildfire Defense Grant
Deadline: Feb. 28 | Details here. The Community Wildfire Defense Grant will assist at-risk local communities with planning and mitigating against the risk created by wildfire.
Other Opportunities
Reimagining Land Use and Zoning for Health Equity Grants
Deadline: Feb. 6 for LOIs | Details here. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will provide grants to organizations and communities working to reimagine land use and zoning as tools for advancing healthy, thriving, and equitable U.S. communities. The grants support activities that address negative impacts of land use policies and work to achieve health equity for all. Proposed programs should have a significant focus on creating policy, practice, and system-level changes at the local, state, or federal levels.
WaterNow Alliance Project Accelerator Technical Assistance & Program Support
Deadline: Feb. 7 | Details here. The WaterNow Alliance’s Project Accelerator provides cities, towns, and utilities with the opportunity to obtain technical assistance tailored to local priorities and their specific needs. Projects support affordable, sustainable, climate resilient and equitable water solutions.
Social Justice Organizing Grants – Chinook Fund
Deadline: Feb. 13 | Details here. Chinook Fund seeds community-led, systemic change by mobilizing resources for grassroots social justice organizations across Colorado. Chinook funds organizations working to challenge the root causes of oppression, rather than treating the symptoms, with a focus on social change efforts that are constituent-led, community-wide, and create lasting effect. Priority is given to groups engaging in community organizing, located in rural areas, for work that is collaborative, risk taking, and strategic. Support is available to nonprofit organizations, including those that do not have 501(c)(3) status.
Freeport-McMoRan Foundation Climax Mine Community Investment Fund
Details here. Making investments in the areas of Education and Workforce Development, Economic Opportunity, and Capacity and Leadership in communities where Climax / Henderson Mine operates (Grand, Clear Creek, Lake, Summit, Eagle, and Chafee Counties).
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