The Community Mitigation Grant program aims to remove financial barriers and catalyze grassroot efforts for mitigation activities at the community scale, building momentum and providing a sense of agency for longer term self-sufficiency in this important risk reduction work.
Donor Name: Larimer County
State: Colorado
County: Larimer County (CO)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/15/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Community Mitigation Grant program is designed to incite community collaboration, reward neighbors helping neighbors and improve social capital – ultimately increasing resilience to future disaster or disruption.
Funding Information
The Community Mitigation Grant program provides eligible applicants up to $10,000 for any single project.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants include community groups, local non-profit organizations and charitable foundations.
- Projects must be located in Larimer County.
- Projects must mitigate the risk from one or more hazard(s).
- Applicants may submit applications for only one project per grant cycle.
- Applicants can only be awarded twice in a three-year period.
Grant Criteria
Grant funding will be awarded via a competitive process. Proposals will be scored by Larimer County OEM using a points-based system. Points are given based on the following:
- Overall contribution to community resilience and risk reduction as a result of the project
- Community resilience: How, and to what extent, will this project improve the community’s ability to cope with disaster?
- Risk reduction: How, and to what extent, will this project reduce future hazard impacts to the community?
- Community involvement and buy-in, both for the proposed project and for future mitigation efforts.
- Community involvement: Will there widespread participation in the project all in the community or neighborhood, or rather only a small number of people?
- Community buy-in: Are there other funds being contributed to the project? Will there be contribution of in-kind resources to the project (such as volunteer time, use of community/community-member owned equipment, etc.)?
- Future efforts: What are the long term plans to continue or build on the efforts proposed in the application? Is this proposal part of a larger related project?
- Partnerships developed or maintained during the planning of the project. (5 points)
- Collaboration: Who did you collaborate with (and how) during the development of this proposal?
- Stakeholder support: Who are the stakeholders to this proposal and how were their interests represented during the development of this proposal?
For more information, visit Larimer County.
