Grant Application and additional information can be found on the LifeSkills Training Implementation webpage. Applications accepted between October 3, 2024 and February 3, 2025.
Building Excellent Schools Today (BEST) Grant Program
BEST provides an annual amount of funding, in the form of competitive grants, to school districts, charter schools, institute charter schools, boards of cooperative educational services and the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind.
Caring for Colorado Foundation
Caring for Colorado Foundation has several open grant opportunities. Check out their grant website to see grants that may be of interest to your entity!
Colorado Department of Education Building Excellent Schools Today (BEST)
For more information on the grant, please visit the Colorado Department of Education's Office grant website. Important Dates: December 15, 2024, Intent to Apply Due
Colorado Department of Law Youth Mental Health and Wellness Opportunity
For more information on the grant, please visit the Colorado Department of Law (DOL)/ Attorney General's Office grant website
Important Dates:
- November 12, 2024 12:00-1:30PM: Pre-Application Webinar - Youth Mental Health & Wellbeing Challenge Grant - to attend.
- January 15, 2025: Applications Due by 11:59 pm
Colorado Kids 1st is an initiative of the Rocky Mountain Research and Prevention Institute (RMRPI). Community groups and organizations with project proposals that comply with the Colorado Kids 1st mission of promoting health and preventing injuries to Colorado's children may apply for grants from the Colorado Kids 1st Fund.
Colorado School Counselor Corps Grant Program
Colorado's School Counselor Corps Grant Program (SCCGP) funding is awarded to eligible school districts, BOCES, charter schools or Institute charter schools. The purpose of this program is to increase the availability of effective school-based counseling within secondary schools.
The EARSS program is authorized by Colorado Revised Statute 22-33-205 to fund grants for which the purposes are to provide education services and support services to expelled students, students at risk of being expelled, enrolled truant students and/or students at risk of being declared, or already are, habitually truant, and chronically absent students.
Fund Your School Safety Vision: Grant Writing Support for Colorado School Districts
CU Boulder's Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) and Greenlights Grant Initiative have partnered to offer a free grant writing course to provide training and assistance for select Colorado school districts to prepare a proposal for BJA STOP School Violence grant. For more information on the grant, please see the flyer here.
Public Welfare Foundation Youth Justice
The Foundation makes grants to groups working to advance state policy reforms that dramatically restrict youth incarceration, abandon the youth prison model, and adopt community-based approaches for youth in the juvenile justice system; end the practice of trying, sentencing, and incarcerating youth in the adult criminal justice system; and support innovative strategies to counter structural racism in the youth justice system, with a particular focus on front-end reforms.