External Grant Opportunities
The University of Colorado Boulder Grant Opportunity
A two-year grant is available to Colorado schools and educational agencies to implement the Botvin LifeSkills Training (LST) High School program with grade 9 or 10, starting in fall 2026.
Schools already implementing the program are eligible. Botvin LST promotes positive youth development by preventing substance use, violence, and other high-risk behaviors by building personal self-management skills, social skills, and refusal skills.
The grant covers all costs for training, ongoing support, and curriculum materials. Applications are being accepted Oct 1 – Dec 9, 2025. For more information, visit our website.
Elevating Prevention In Colorado (EPIC) Grant Funding
The EPIC grant funding opportunity, RFA #49960377, empowers communities to establish a collective impact system that fosters comprehensive primary prevention efforts for substance use and misuse, aligning with community needs.
Deadline: November 3, 2025 by 5:00pm MST.
Visit the CDPHE Website for more information.
Caring for Colorado is supporting a funding opportunity
This funding opportunity is for the advancement in health and well-being for young people, ages 9 to 25, who face health inequities.
The grant focuses on strengthening families, building youth-centered communities, and helping young people thrive.
Key Dates: Part 1 Applications due: Thursday, November 6, 2025, by 5:00 p.m.; Part 2 (if invited) due: Thursday, February 5, 2026.
STOP School Violence Program FY2025 Funding Opportunity
Deadline Extended!
The Students, Teachers, Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Grant Program is designed to improve K-12 school safety and security by providing students and teachers with the tools they need to recognize, respond quickly to, and help prevent acts of violence. The STOP School Violence Act of 2018 gave the Department of Justice the authority to provide awards to grantees to implement evidence-based school safety programs and technology.
Application JustGrants Deadline: November 10, 2025
Localities, Federally Recognized Tribal Governments, Nonprofits, and School Districts are eligible to apply for awards up to $1,000,000.00 under Category 2
Visit BJA’s 2025 STOP program website for more information
FY27 State Victim and Law Enforcement (State VALE) Funding Opportunity
The Office for Victims Programs (OVP), a unit of the Division of Criminal Justice within the Colorado Department of Public Safety, announces the estimated availability of up to $500,000.00 (total announced is the amount available from July 1, 2026 - June 30, 2027), in State VALE Grant Funds.
The purpose of your State VALE Application should be to develop, deliver, and/or coordinate a Victim Services Training Series and/or Statewide Victim-Services related conference for victim services professionals in Colorado. Projects should be designed to strengthen and build the capacity of victim services professionals and providers across the state to respond effectively to victims of crime. Activities funded through this opportunity must benefit the entire state or multiple regions in Colorado and be tied to conference and/or training project activities rather than ongoing organizational expenses.
- Project activities must occur between July 1, 2026, and June 30, 2027
- All applications must be received by 11:59 p.m. on November 14, 2025.
Visit DCJ’s program website for more information.
OSP Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Grant Program
The OSP is pleased to announce the availability of funds, through Senate Bill 18-272, to enhance comprehensive suicide prevention and crisis response for public schools and school districts. The purpose of this legislation is to provide funding for public schools and school districts to implement crisis and suicide prevention strategies, with priority given to public schools or school districts that have not received suicide prevention training previously.
Application Deadline: December 5, 2025
Visit Office of Suicide Prevention webpage for more information.
DOL Resilient Colorado Grant Program
The Department of Law is seeking applications from eligible entities who aim to support local and statewide efforts to prevent and respond to opioid use and its impact in Colorado. This funding opportunity is from the State Share of Opioid Settlement Funds. There are six possible target focus areas:
- Target 1: Promoting Youth Well-Being and Prevention by Encouraging Connection and Healthy Behaviors
- Target 2: Addressing Gaps in Substance Use Treatment for Youth
- Target 3: Growing Colorado’s Rural & Underserved Behavioral Health Workforce
- Target 4. Building Recovery & Reentry Systems for Justice-Involved Individuals
- Target 5. Supporting Families, Caregivers, and Children
- Target 6: Empowering and Sustaining Colorado Peer Leadership
Application Deadline: December 18, 2025 by 11:59 p.m. MST
Visit the Department of Law webpage for more information.
COAC Infrastructure Share Fund
The purpose of the Infrastructure Share is to promote capital improvements and provide operational assistance for developing and improving the infrastructure necessary to abate the opioid crisis in Colorado. The Infrastructure Share is further intended to meet the needs of rural and underserved populations.
- Notice of Intent to Apply: December 15, 2025
- Application Deadline: January 14, 2026
Visit the Colorado Opioid Abatement Council webpage for more information.
CDPHE Childhood Injuries and Fatalities by Firearm Mini Funding Opportunity
The Office of Gun Violence Prevention within the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) is now accepting applications for new mini-grants that will fund projects to prevent childhood firearm fatalities across Colorado.
The maximum allocation is $10,000 per organization, and CDPHE plans to award a maximum of $200,000 in total funding.
Applications are reviewed and awarded on a rolling basis. Due to limited funding, the office encourages organizations to submit their applications as soon as possible. The program will close on December 30, 2025, or when all funds have been awarded, whichever comes first.
Motorola Solutions - Police Radios Grant Assistance Program
- Motorola has several grant opportunities opening in the future to assist with radio equipment.
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