Thanks for your interest in the SIPA Micro-Grant.
Last year SIPA received 94 requests for micro-grants and we were able to fund 35 of those totaling over $150,000.
View a map of all awardees across Colorado below.
Organization | Amount | Purpose |
City of Westminster |
$10,000 |
The Mini-Library Kiosk initiative supports the Westminster Public Library Master Plan goal of increasing Literacy and Engagement in the community. The TLC Mini-Library can help extend our library’s reach to untraditional locations such as hospitals, community centers, shopping centers, and in our pilot of this kiosk - a recreation center. |
Parachute/Battlement Mesa Park & Rec District | $3,750 |
Migrate the three websites into one on SIPA's colorado.gov website. |
Town of Deer Trail | $300 |
One time set-up fees to migrate to G-Suite and Google Drive. |
Colorado Dept. of Agriculture |
$8,500 |
Help build a mobile app to enable veterinarians and animal owners to easily submit the required animal health data in order to transport their animals. |
Town of Moffat | $3,000 |
Digitize the following: 1) historical documents, 2) ordinances, 3) codes, 4) resolutions, 5) legal notices, and 6) board meeting agendas. |
Colorado Dept. of Public Safety | $7,000 |
Implement a new, online records management portal (ColoradoDocs) that works with our existing Google Drive system to organize and make searchable a vast wealth of public records maintained by CDPS. |
City of Walsenburg |
$3,000 |
Digitizing, uploading and linking Ordinances, Resolutions, Meeting Minutes, Agendas, and other documents to the City of Walsenburg website. |
Colorado Dept. of Education | $3,000 |
Preserve Colorado’s historic state government documents and to allow Coloradans access to a greater number of these documents online through digitization. |
Chaffee County | $3,750 |
Improve website and migrate to Colorado.gov. |
City of Craig | $8,500 |
Develop an interactive trails map and mobile application for trail users. |
Town of Colbran | $4,950 |
One time set-up fees to migrate to G Suite for Business. |
Dolores County | $3,750 |
Colorado.gov website and to improve content delivery to residents. |
Parachute/Battlement Mesa Parks & Rec District | $300 |
One time professional services needed to migrate email from a POP server to G-Suite and allow for uploading data and information. |
Washington County | $6,000 |
To fund one-time professional services needed to migrate our email from a POP server to G-Suite and CJIS compliant encryption with Virtru. |
Dove Creek Ambulance District | $3,250 |
Improve website and migrate to Colorado.gov. |
Town of Dove Creek | $3,250 |
Create a website for Town on Colorado.gov. |
Colorado Dept. of Higher Education | $6,500 |
Improve website and migrate to Colorado.gov. |
Town of Foxfield | $4,250 |
Improve website and migrate to Colorado.gov. |
City of Durango | $3,000 |
To create electronic documents for the City’s tree maintenance logs, providing easy online public searchable access to Durango's urban forest data. |
University of Northern Colorado | $6,500 |
Make UNC’s collection of nearly 3000 southwestern and plains artifacts publicly accessible through an online database that is searchable and Google indexed |
City of Yuma |
$1,600 |
Move to a SIPA service AODocs to help the City streamline our record retention by converting all paper records to electronic format. |
Colorado Dept. of Labor & Employment | $8,500 |
Implement a new, online records management portal (ColoradoDocs) that works with our existing Google Drive system to organize and make records searchable. |
Limon Memorial Public Library | $3,000 |
To preserve photographs, news articles and video materials from the 1990 Tornado. |
Morgan County | $3,000 |
Digitize Commissioner Minutes and Survey Books and make that information searchable for internal and external use. |
Elizabeth Fire Protection District | $6,500 |
Improve website and migrate to Colorado.gov |
Nederland Community Library District | $1,500 |
Preserve shared histories from Nederland Area Historical Society and to make them accessible online. |
City of Grand Junction | $6,500 |
Provide wider access to burial records by making burial records of City operated cemeteries available and searchable online. |
City of Boulder | $6,500 |
Additional implementation support to transition our direct service employees to use a new, integrated case management system. |
Wiley School District RE-3JT | $3,000 |
Scan and preserve school board minutes and other permanent documents. |
Colorado Dept. of Health Care Policy & Financing | $6,460 |
Accessibility report, with suggestions for remediation, on the top PDFs and HTML pages on the HCPF external website, to facilitate easier access and understandability for a significant population of Coloradans accessing Medicaid and CHP+. |
Las Animas-Huerfano Counties Health District | $6,500 |
Improve website and migrate to Colorado.gov. |
La Plata County | $5,000 |
Video streaming project. |
Town of Eagle | $4,000 | Broadband Grant with SIPA & DOLA |
Town of Silver Cliff | $5,000 | Broadband Grant with SIPA & DOLA |
Poudre Canyon Fire Protection District | $5,000 | Broadband Grant with SIPA & DOLA |