Colorado Outdoor Regional Partnership Capacity Grants

The Colorado Outdoor Regional Partnership Capacity Grants, offered by Colorado Parks and Wildlife and Great Outdoors Colorado, provide funding ranging from $50,000 to $150,000 to support regional collaborations in conservation and recreation planning. This initiative invites coalitions to enhance outdoor recreation experiences and promote sustainable practices across Colorado. Eligible applicants include non-profits and government entities committed to building diverse coalitions focused on community-driven conservation goals. The grants cover one to two-year terms, requiring a 10% match.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) and Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) offer grant funding for regional collaboration and conservation and recreation planning under the Colorado Outdoor Regional Partnerships Initiative (RPI). Coalitions are invited to join a network of Regional Partnerships working to ensure that Colorado’s land, water, and wildlife thrive while also providing equitable and quality outdoor recreation experiences. Grant funding supports coalitions at all stages of development, including those just forming and those already funded under the RPI.
The fall 2024 funding round offers two types of grants. Grants are offered for the duration of one to two years, including Partnership Capacity Grants and Plan Development Grants.
$50,000 - $150,000 for one to two-year terms for newly forming collaboratives.
Funding supports Regional Partnership collaboratives that are committed to convening a broad range of outdoor interests to identify and advance conservation and sustainable outdoor recreation objectives in alignment with Colorado’s Outdoors Strategy. Collaboratives focused on areas where there are no established Regional Partnerships are a priority for this category.

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants:Colorado non-profit organizations and government entities that represent a coalition with a broad range of outdoor interests including, conservation, outdoor recreation, working lands, underrepresented populations, and government interests OR demonstrate a commitment to building a coalition with these interests.
Represent new or existing coalitions in areas that do not have a Regional Partnership OR represent an existing Regional Partnership. Please see the RPI map to see if your coalition is eligible.
Commitment to identifying community-driven conservation and sustainable outdoor recreation values, objectives and priorities while considering opportunities to inform Colorado’s Outdoors Strategy, a collaborative vision for conservation, climate resilience, and sustainable recreation.Grants are offered for the duration of one to two years.CPW requires a 10% match of financial and/or in-kind contribution.