Thanks for your interest in the SIPA Micro-Grant.
This year, we received 67 requests for micro-grants and are able to fund 34 of those totaling more than $153,500.
View a map of all new and past awardees across Colorado below.
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| Organization |
Amount |
Purpose |
|
Artesia Fire Protection District |
$2,000 | to develop a SIPA website on the official colorado.gov portal as we don't have a website and have public info that needs to be posted. |
| Boulder Valley and Longmont Conservation District | $4,000 | migrate the website to the secure Colorado.gov and create the option for online inventory and ordering for our tree seedling and other sales. |
| City of Fountain | $6,500 | integrate new Council Chamber's audio/video hardware with software for the public hybrid meetings. |
| City of Castle Pines | $6,500 | acquire endpoint detection/response service for adding a cyber-security layer to protect the City from threats, service disruption/data protection, and ensure access to web services. |
| City of Dacono | $500 | acquire REsimplifi data feed to be integrated into www.choosedacono.com to provide property information to users. |
| City of Florence | $3,000 | digitize cemetery records from the 1890’s to provide citizens with effective service regarding pre-need, family lineage and record maintenance. |
| City of Ouray | $4,050 | transition from Outlook/Exchange Email and Windows File Server configuration to a Google Workspace. |
| City of Sheridan | $3,000 | digitize some of our historic Comprehensive Plans and City documents to preserve their quality and promote their accessibility to the public. |
| City of Trinidad OED Grant | $8,500 | expand public access to an existing hard-copy publication on historical Trinidad architecture by developing it into a multimedia format on the tourism website. |
| City of Wheat Ridge | $3,000 | digitize Wheat Ridge newspapers from either microfilm or paper copies. |
| City of Yuma | $5,728 | deliver end to end cyber security from assessments, design, and planning to managing services. |
| City Wheat Ridge | $5,930 | create a publicly available ArcGIS Online City Development Map projects. |
| Clear Creek County | $3,000 | purchase the innovative software platform, Open Media, to improve transparency and promote civic engagement from our constituents. |
| Clear Creek County | $5,000 | implement dependable, high-quality technology in the Collaborative Care Center to facilitate effective communication between staff and external partners. |
| Cortez Sanitation District | $5,000 | move to the colorado.gov website platform. |
| Custer County Sheriff's Office | $3,500 | obtain a work email address system, Google Workspace, that is user-friendly to law enforcement and makes the job easier and works with our volunteer staff. |
| Denver Public Library | $8,000 | identify and document deeds between 1931-1935 containing racially-restrictive language and to build a widely accessible geospatial database and visual representation. |
| Department of Personnel & Administration | $7,147 | acquire GovDelivery, which will ensure the maximum number of employees receive vital information. |
| Department Natural Resources | $7,500 | assist the Governor's Office and Interagency Climate Team are finalizing a climate website that aggregates a massive resource library (grants, guidance, plans) across 15+ departments. |
| Department of Public Safety | $6,500 | develop an online submission platform to increase compliance with data gathering, which helps inform decisions and protect Colorado youth. |
| Dove Creek Ambulance District | $6,500 | digitize all documents and placing them in a searchable format for transparency to its district, as well securing all privacy data. |
| Elbert County School District | $3,000 | to digitize historical archives of board meeting data for the purpose of making them available on our district website to the public. |
| Garfield Public Library District | $3,000 | digitization to PDF OCR of several collections of Historic Glenwood Springs Newspapers, some of which are physically deteriorating and/or unavailable elsewhere. |
| Regional Housing Alliance of La Plata County | $3,000 | digitize the organization’s historic records so they are properly organized, secure, and readily available as the RHA begins efforts to reinvigorate the organization. |
| Security Public Library | $1,750 | continue to gather and record the history of the Security-Widefield area for future generations. |
| Southwest Colorado Council of Governments | $3,000 | to digitize the organization’s historic records, so they are properly organized alongside current records, secure, and readily available for Staff and the Public. |
| Summit Fire & EMS Protection District | $5,500 | create a user friendly website, on the official colorado.gov portal that will enable us to maximize our community engagement while increasing transparency. |
| Town of Collbran | $989 | purchase an advanced 360° smart conferencing camera to allow for streaming of Board of Trustee meetings. |
| Town of Haxtun | $3,500 | migrate to Google Workspace to conduct town business. |
| Town of Mt. Crested Butte | $4,950 | create a high-quality responsive design website to better communicate with residents, visitors, and second homeowners on the official colorado.gov portal. |
| Town of Westcliffe | $5,500 | to replacement/reactivation of Access Point #5 which was removed/destroyed by a new homeowner; the access point was installed May 2015. |
| Upper Pine River Fire Protection District | $5,000 | better utilize the communication and data network infrastructure in place, to serve our residents and community. |