Thanks for your interest in the SIPA Micro-Grant.
This year, we received 95 requests for micro-grants and are able to fund 35 of those totaling $147,000.
View a map of all new and past awardees across Colorado below.
| Organization | Amount | Purpose |
| City of Boulder | $6,500.00 | Create an online portal for the food tax rebate program that allows households to apply for a rebate for the purposes of food security. |
| City of Colorado Springs | $3,000.00 | Inventory, scan, and digitize thousands of historical records, making them freely and easily accessible online to both the public and City staff. |
| City of Fountain | $3,000.00 | Digitize 161 years worth of documents from the City Clerk’s office for public online access. |
| Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind | $6,500.00 | Improve the school district's website by migrating to SIPA/CI's colorado.gov. |
| Colorado State Judicial | $6,500.00 | Set-up, site migration and customization on SIPA/CI's new Drupal 8 platform. |
| Denver Public Library | $6,500.00 | Digitize building permits in the Denver Public Library’s collections and encourage their use to understand the people and places that make Denver unique. |
| Department of Agriculture Animal Health Laboratory | $8,500.00 | Make a vital enhancements to a mobile application that allows veterinarians to submit data electronically for rapid, efficient testing of Equines. |
| Department of Human Services Behavioral Health Ombudsman | $300.00 | Set up an independent G Suite account for the office through SIPA and Tempus Nova. |
| Department of Labor and Employment | $6,500.00 | Streamline the claimant online experience and increase the utilization of self-service Colorado Unemployment Insurance claims by state unemployed workers. |
| Department of Natural Resources | $6,500.00 | Set-up, website migration and customization on SIPA/CI's colorado.gov new Drupal 8 platform. |
| Department of Natural Resources Division of Water Resources | $6,500.00 | Website migration from SharePoint to SiteBuilder with SIPA and CI on colorado.gov. |
| Department of Treasury | $5,000.00 | Perform a full update of the Department of Treasury's public facing website on SIPA/CI's colorado.gov platform. |
| Douglas County Conservation District | $300.00 | Upgrade to G Suite for a safer, more professional email provider through SIPA and Tempus Nova. |
| Fruitdale Sanitation District | $3,500.00 | Transition to the secure cloud G Suite platform with SIPA and Tempus Nova. |
| Genesee Fire Protection District | $4,250.00 | Facilitate the creation of a new and interactive website, on SIPA/CI's colorado.gov platform, focused on community preparedness. |
| Hinsdale County | $2,000.00 | Improve the County's website on the SIPA/CI colorado.gov platform to improve navigation and to provide better interaction with constituents such as “How Do I ….” for potential bill paying (trash & fees), add CORA request forms. |
| Hinsdale County | $5,000 | Broadband: to purchase conduit for fiber to be placed during existing construction projects for eventual fiber ring with multiple anchor institutions for improved, consistent, redundant communication. |
| Jefferson County Clerk | $8,500.00 | Continue offering transparency to the citizens of Jefferson County by furthering the use of technological applications for the 2020 election. |
| Las Animas County | $3,750.00 | Improve website and migrate data by moving to Colorado.gov SiteBuilder through SIPA/CI that includes ADA compliance. |
| Little Thompson Water District | $3,500.00 | Website migration to SIPA/CI's colorado.gov with an updated web design, coding and training. |
| Morgan County | $4,050.00 | Cover the one-time setup fees for implementation to stream meetings using Granicus. |
| Office of Economic Development and International Trade | $8,500.00 | Support the development of a cutting-edge website, on SIPA/CI's colorado.gov platform, to serve as the hub of information for programs while creating a new standard for state agencies. |
| Office on Judicial Performance Evaluation | $6,500.00 | Migrate to SIPA/CI's colorado.gov SiteBuilder to provide accurate information, for the residents of Colorado, for the 2020 election. |
| Pueblo County | $6,500.00 | Make the County Commissioner's public meeting process more transparent and efficient and save paper by using the Granicus platform. |
| Ragged Mountain Fire Protection District | $3,250.00 | Migrate to SIPA/CI's colorado.gov SiteBuilder to offer a high-quality website to effectively communicate with constituents with important information, and to interact with District Members and Residents. |
| Town of Akron | $3,500.00 | to transition to G Suite with SIPA and Tempus Nova for all department heads to have their own work email address, therefore not relying on personal email addresses to conduct business. |
| Town of Castle Rock | $5,000.00 | Provide the citizens and visitors of Castle Rock with trail conditions including sidewalk clearing during snow events. |
| Town of Dolores | $4,250.00 | Create a quality website on SIPA/CI's no-cost platform on Colorado.gov to provide functional, effective communication and service to residents. |
| Town of Dolores | $3,500.00 | Transition to G Suite with SIPA and Tempus Nova that includes Technical and Training Services, as well as Project Management. |
| Town of Olney Springs | $300.00 | Switch staff's residential gmail account to a governmental gmail account to G Suite through SIPA and Tempus Nova. |
| Town of Olney Springs | $3,750.00 | Migrate to SIPA/CI's colorado.gov SiteBuilder to make it easily accessible and interactive for citizens. |
| Town of Rockvale | $300.00 | Set up secure emails through SIPA and Tempus Nova for town staff and board members for better communication. |
| Town of Silt | $2,610.00 | Implement the Granicus Communications Cloud to connect with more people by leveraging the Cloud. |
| Town of Westcliffe | $6,477.27 | Broadband: to provide additional Wi-Fi Access Point node (#12) to the existing Main Street Wi-Fi System that provides complimentary casual internet access to public areas in Westcliffe. |
| Town of Williamsburg | $4,500.00 | Offer a higher-quality website with more functionality to effectively communicate with residents by moving to the SIPA/CI Colorado.gov SiteBuilder. |