Micro-Grant Recipients
SIPA, with its Board of Directors, is excited to award the 2025-2026 micro-grants to Colorado governments across the state. This year, we received 168 requests and were able to fund 42 of those totaling $255,812. The map below indicates all the new and past awardees across Colorado below.
| Organization | Amount Awarded | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Academy School District 20 | $8,355.50 | to provide specific special education accessibility training for 400 educators serving 24,000 students. |
| Akron Public Library | $4,151.54 | to purchase high-performance computers that support education, gaming, digital creativity, and music access for youth and adults in our library. |
| Aurora Public Schools | $9,129.98 | to create a districtwide train-the-trainer program that supports staff in becoming document accessibility experts and leading remediation efforts in their buildings or departments. |
| Berthoud Community Library District | $428.00 | to purchase a Vasco Translator V4 real-time translation device that we can use when people who speak languages other than English are trying to communicate with library staff and board members. |
| Berthoud Fire Protection District | $2,438.00 | to comply with State accessibility requirements by ensuring our website and publicly available documents are accessible. |
| Colorado Department of Labor & Employment | $4,000.00 | to obtain AI translation and caption software in order to communicate in real-time with Spanish-speaking participants of FAMLI program |
| Colorado Department of Transportation | $3,885.00 | to create an automatic payment system for tenants of CDOT-owned workforce housing to pay their monthly rent online. |
| City and County of Broomfield | $10,000.00 | to procure a technology-based solution to track the organization’s key performance indicators and display interactive data dashboards ensuring accountability and transparency to the public on the organization’s progress in relation to the OSP. |
| City of Aspen | $9,767.00 | to add an AI-based chatbot to our Community 311 service. |
| City of Centennial | $10,000.00 | to implement a digitally accessible online platform that allows residents to easily reserve city facilities and request community equipment—such as movie night kits—enhancing public access, transparency, and efficiency. |
| City of Colorado Springs | $10,000.00 | to implement the N5 Wildfire Detection System, AI-powered early warning platform to improve wildfire and chemical detection, optimize emergency response, and increase public safety |
| City of Durango | $2,488.51 | to obtain video encoding equipment for use with our agenda management solution for public meetings. |
| City of Fruita | $10,000.00 | to acquire and implement digital Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) software, streamlining the management, tracking, and retention of public records requests to enhance transparency and efficiency. |
| City of Golden | $10,000.00 | to move our email and identity domain from cityofgolden.net to cityofgolden.gov. |
| City of Loveland | $8,000.00 | to implement an accessible digital forms platform that will replace static PDF forms and web forms with interactive, accessible, and mobile-friendly online forms. |
| City of Wheat Ridge | $696.00 | to upload historical collections to the PastPerfect online, subscription-based service, which can be viewed online by the public. |
| City of Wray | $9,275.00 | to replace seven of the nine public computers located at the Wray Public Library. |
| City of Wray | $3,750.00 | to bring the City of Wray website documents into compliance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA. |
| Colorado Skies Academy | $2,500.00 | to purchase Grackle Workspace to ensure that Google Workspace documents are inclusive and compliant with global assessibility standards. |
| County of Boulder | $9,280.00 | to implement an accessible, full-text searchable Records Management Portal that provides equitable online access to Boulder County public records in compliance with WCAG 2.2 standards. |
| Englewood Schools | $9,866.00 | to purchase Allyant CommonLook Online and Grackle accessibility tool licenses, enabling staff to maintain accessible digital content, promote inclusivity, and ensure ongoing compliance with Colorado HB 21-1110. |
| Flagstaff Academy Charter School | $10,000.00 | to purchase website and document services that will allow us to further our ADA compliance efforts. |
| Fremont Conservation District | $1,280.00 | to hire a service to digitize approximately 1,000 Kodak ektachrome film slides from the 1950s-1990s. |
| Governor's Office | $10,000.00 | to transition from labor-intensive manual voicemail transcription to digital automation for constituent services streamlines operations, enhances efficiency, and improves responsiveness for the citizens of Colorado. |
| Governor's Office | $7,500.00 | to refine the Governor’s Dashboard website, increasing government transparency, improving Tableau user experience, and strengthening data infrastructure and internal reporting mechanisms for the next administration. |
| Highland Rescue Team Ambulance District | $967.70 | to allow us to pay for pdf remediation services for two of our most important documents to share publicly, the annual report and our budget. |
| Jackson County | $6,500.00 | to hire a contractor who will update our website and ensure our documents are up to date and aligned with current accessibility standards. |
| Jefferson County | $2,116.00 | to procure hardware to digitize records; by allowing citizens to fill out common forms electronically using modern tablet technology and remain in statutory compliance. |
| Mesa County | $7,000.00 | to conduct a UX and ADA compliance study for Mesa County's Open Data and Map Viewer applications, for GIS staff to enact. |
| Mountain View Fire Protection District | $4,900.00 | to develop an interactive ADA-compliant webpage to present the 2026 Budget in an accessible, user-friendly format. |
| Park County | $10,000.00 | to offset Accela SaaS licensing and implementation costs, giving Park County a modern, cloud-based platform for permitting, Short Term Rental management, and code-enforcement workflows. |
| Pueblo County | $10,000.00 | to create a virtual hub for multiple high-demand public services in Pueblo County to answer questions regarding the Clerks office. |
| Rio Grande County | $5,500.00 | to implement TextMyGov to enhance communication between Rio Grande County and its communities, fostering accessibility and engagement. |
| Saguache County Clerk & Recorder's Office | $2,500.00 | to complete document accessibility remediation by Coberly Web Creations. |
| Sedgwick County Health Center (SCHC) | $10,000.00 | to build an accessible, multilingual, mobile-responsive website for Sedgwick County Health Center with price transparency, portal tools, job applications, provider info, emergency alerts, and resources. |
| Snake River Water District | $10,000.00 | to assist with developing and implementing a cybersecurity plan. |
| South Central Council of Governments | $6,000.00 | to make the SCCOG website accessible for people with a wide range of disabilities - including auditory, cognitive, neurological, physical, speech, and visual disabilities. |
| St. Vincent General Hospital District | $1,272.08 | to remediate 5 complex and lengthy PDFs, that are too complex for us and must be posted on our website to comply with IRS, State of Colorado and, Special District rules. |
| Tallahasee Fire Protection District | $5,596.00 | to purchase and install Starlink Mini satellite dishes and ruggedized laptop computers on three of our first out apparatus which will help eliminate the communication gaps we experience across our district. |
| Thompson School District | $1,320.00 | to support the implementation of Grackle, a tool that helps ensure digital documents are accessible to all learners and the public. |
| Town of Boone | $3,500.00 | to out source a professional Service to build the Town of Boone a Website. |
| Turkey Canon Ranch Water District | $1,850.00 | to obtain a .gov domain and then set up Google emails to be used with a new website and/or for any district correspondence. |