Thanks for your interest in the SIPA Micro-Grant.
This year, we received 141 requests for micro-grants and are able to fund 35 of those totaling $173,316.44.
View a map of all new and past awardees across Colorado below.
| Organization |
Amount |
Purpose |
|
Arapahoe County |
$8,500 | to substantially expand and elevate community voice through extensive ongoing engagement research using Qualtrics CX software/platform to collect community data. |
| Aurora Public Schools | $4,848 | to purchase thirteen voice-output communication devices, to support students with disabilities across the district to be able to communicate across the educational setting. |
| Aurora Public Schools | $6,500 | to support a consultant to assist evaluation of the HB21-1110 accessibility bill and develop strategies and initiatives for implementation at the district level. |
| Bent County Conservation District | $2,944.44 | to purchase equipment to place mapping data online and make it available for community members in the district as well as the district itself. |
| Carbon Valley Parks and Recreation District | $6,500 | to upgrade our website to serve our entire community, be fully ADA compliant, and easily accessible to all audiences. |
| City and County of Broomfield | $6,000 | to ensure access to essential community information for all community members that are contained in web PDFs and cannot be reverted/converted to web based format. |
| City and County of Denver | $6,500 | to reduce the digital access divide for the cities citizens who require ADA accommodations, enabling them to more easily consume city services and documents. |
| City of Alamosa | $6,500 | to provide equitable access to all current and newly created electronic documents hosted by the City of Alamosa. |
| City of Lakewood | $6,500 | to make PDF documents accessible to the public in compliance with ADA requirements and the new Colorado HB21-1110 law. |
| City of Pagosa Springs | $6,500 | to obtain and maintain compliance with HB21-1110 Colorado Laws for Persons with Disabilities by implementing technology accessibility on our website. |
| City of Wheat Ridge | $6,300 | to help us with researching and developing a project plan for migrating the City of Wheat Ridge’s domain from ci.wheatridge.co.us to WheatRidge.gov. |
| CDHE History Colorado | $3,000 | to digitize and make accessible 25-50 of our legacy oral histories featuring underrepresented people and stories. |
| Combined Community Library | $5,000 | to update the hardware for at least 10 computers currently running on Windows 7 or 8. |
| Dancing Willows Metropolitan District | $300 | to purchase a PA System for district gatherings and meetings. |
| Estes Valley Public Library District | $6,500 | to offset the cost of a comprehensive website audit and remediation project to achieve full AA compliance with WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards. |
| Front Range Fire Rescue | $3,000 | to bring our website into compliance with accessibility standards. |
| Garfield County Federal Mineral Lease District | $6,500 | to comply with HB21-1110, as amended by SB23-244, regarding website accessibility and all related statutory requirements. |
| Genesee Water and Sanitation District | $4,850 | to facilitate migration and updating of the existing website to an ADA-compliant, interactive website, on SIPA's colorado.gov platform, focusing on ease of use for our elderly customers. |
| Ignacio Library District | $5,000 | to procure one hotspot and two computers for use on the bookmobile, five hotspots for checkout and seven seven computers for in-library use. |
| Orchard City Irrigation District | $1,500 | to make all website content accessible to those with disabilities as required by Colorado HB21-1110. |
| Park County | $6,500 | to purchase a software package that will allow for remote Building permit application and plan submittals. |
| Prowers County | $6,500 | to update the County website to make it more accessible and will need to migrate to a new hosting company to do so. |
| Pueblo County | $6,500 | to modernize with HB21-1110 compliance of citizen-facing, and internal software tools. |
| Southeast Council of Governments | $6,500 | to utilize funding to build a compliant website on colorado.gov which can be updated easily from our office. |
| Southern Chaffee County Regional Library District | $1,100 | to purchase an Owl 3 conference room camera for use by staff and patrons in our newer large meeting room. |
| Town of Bennett | $10,116 | to utilize KnowBe4 services to train staff as well as our community to help protect the town from any potential cyber-attacks. |
| Town of Brookside | $3,000 | to scan, and digitize thousands of historical records, making them freely and easily accessible online to both the public and City staff. |
| Town of Fairplay | $3,000 | convert vital paper Town records (Agendas, Minutes, Ordinances, Resolutions, Packets, Etc) into digital format for safekeeping and easier searching and sharing. |
| Town of Manzanola | $2,050 | to create a website to provide community communications and updating on projects with availability of on-line water/sewer bill payments. |
| Town of Mead | $3,000 | to make ordinances and resolutions more accessible to the general public. |
| Town of Nederland | $3,000 | to contract work related to updating and digitizing Town documents to increase accessibility and ensure compliance with HB 23-1182. |
| Town of Silverton | $4,693 | to purchase new OWL meeting equipment for the live streaming of public meetings to the community and beyond. |
| Upper Thompson Sanitation District | $5,000 | to hire Cob-Web Creations to bring its website into full compliance with Colorado HB 21-1110 to make it accessible for those with disabilities. |
| Vail Police Department | $5,650 | to migrate civilian officers from a paper-based to an e/ticketing system and to implement an online payment portal for digitally-transacted and tap-and-go credit card payments. |
| West Fort Collins Water District | $3,465 | to digitize customer records to modernize, efficiently serve, and provide security for the WFC Water District community. |