Resilience Fund: Collaboration Grants

Community Foundation Boulder County established the Resilience Fund in 2025 to support nonprofits serving the Boulder County community with education, technical assistance, and financial support. Training, resources, and collaboration opportunities have been created to help nonprofits build long-term stability and support a vibrant, equitable community.

The Collaboration Grants funding opportunity is a combined effort of Boulder County Arts Alliance, the City of Boulder Office of Arts and Culture, and Community Foundation Boulder County.

Collaboration Grants support Boulder County nonprofits and fiscally sponsored projects that are exploring or building partnerships to strengthen their organizations, make better use of resources and better serve the community.

We encourage proposals that support formal partnerships, shared services or mergers involving two or more organizations. These collaborations should help reduce administrative work, improve efficiency and expand or strengthen services for community members.

Examples of requests include funding to explore or support:

• Sharing administrative functions among multiple organizations in areas including, but not limited to, finance, payroll, human resources, IT support, grant administration, or marketing/promotion.
• Co-locating office or program space among two or more organizations.
• Creating joint leadership or management roles to support multiple organizations.
• Developing formal partnerships, fiscal sponsorships, or shared governance models.
• Mergers and/or consolidations of two or more organizations.

The following will not be considered by this funding opportunity:

• Projects designed to assess or increase the capacity of a single organization.
• Support to start an organization, program or service.
• Direct program delivery or any general organizational expenses.

Grant funds may be used to support expenses such as consultant fees, legal assistance, planning and/or implementation costs.

Priority will be given to:

• Significant formal strategic partnerships, shared services or mergers between two or more entities with the potential to reduce administrative burden and/or improve services.
• Collaborations that would improve equitable outcomes for historically marginalized populations in Boulder County.

If your organization provides any of the following services, and you would like your contact information to be listed below for potential partnerships, please fill out the contact form.

• Finance
• Payroll
• Human resources
• IT support
• Grant administration
• Marketing and promotion

• Partnership Contact Form

• Review of grant applications will began on June 4, 2026.
• Applying entities may submit or be included in only one grant application.
• The grant size will be $5,000, and the total available for distribution will be $35,000 (7 grants total).
• Two grant awards will support arts and culture entities with one of those awards specifically for activities in the city of Boulder (supported by funds from the City of Boulder Office of Arts and Culture).
• The remaining five grant awards will be for any focus area within Boulder County.
• The grant period will be 12 months.
• A final report will be submitted 30 days after the grant period ends.
• Grant applications will be reviewed by Community Foundation Boulder County staff and representatives from the community.

Applications for a Collaboration Grant may be submitted online beginning on June 4, 2026. A confirmation email will be sent once the application is received.

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis. Funding decisions will be communicated approximately 6 to 8 weeks after submission.

• Applications must be submitted through Community Foundation Boulder County.

• Eligible applicants include IRS 501(c)(3) public charities.
• Private non-operating foundations are not eligible. Groups or organizations without IRS 501(c)(3) designation may apply with a fiscal sponsor.
• Grantees must use grant proceeds only for the stated purpose of the grant.
• Grants are exclusively for Boulder County activities. One of the grants will be exclusively for activities in the Boulder city limits with a focus on arts and culture.
• Community Foundation Boulder County does not make grants to organizations where grant money from our discretionary or field of interest funds would be used to further a particular religious doctrine.

Community Foundation Boulder County Staff Contact: Sarah Harrison, Vice President of Programs, sharrison@commfound.org