Below are the sections in the Community Impact online application.
Applicants will need to provide contact information for a departmental accounting person
General Information
- Applicant Contact Information
- Preferred Pronouns
- Contact information for a departmental accounting person
- Indicate if prior awardee (Office for Outreach and Engagement Micro or Community Impact grant, CU Boulder Outreach Award) and
- If you are a prior Micro or Community Impact grant awardee, indicate if you have submitted a final status report.
Project Summary (350 words maximum)
- Provide a brief description of the work to be completed, and indicate if this is a seed or pilot project or an expansion of an existing program.
- Provide evidence of need by describing:
- perspectives expressed by key stakeholders or groups
- relevant scholarship
- Briefly state the goals and objectives of the CU Boulder campus participants and the community partners.
- State where the project will take place (provide specific names of cities or towns, institutions and/or venues).
Rationale For Request (250 words maximum)
- Explain why a Community Impact Grant is the appropriate fit rather than an Outreach Award. Community Impact Grants are intended to seed or extend projects that are smaller in scope.
- Explain your plans for securing future funding if this is a pilot for a larger project.
- If you have received funding for this project from our office in the past, explain how your current proposal extends its reach or scope.
Participant Details Section
All projects must engage external community partners and participants.
External Community Partners and/or Participants (max 250 words)
List external partners. Describe how partnerships will be developed, and how partners are, or will be, involved in the planning process, project activities and goal setting.
- Community partners. These might be schools, libraries, nonprofits, and other institutions etc.)
- Community participants. These might be attendees, audience members, community members who your partners serve (e.g. students in a K-12 classroom, citizen scientists)
Campus Partners and/or Participants (max 250 words)
List campus partners and describe how they are involved in the planning process, project activity and goal setting
- Campus partners. These might be faculty members, staff, centers, research teams or other entities on campus.
- Campus participants. These might be faculty, staff or students who are audience members or affiliated with partners in some way.
Partner Benefits (max 250 words)
Project activity should be mutually beneficial for external community and campus partners. In advance of applying, please reach out and ask the partner(s) specifically how they see the project benefiting them and/or the audiences or participants they serve. Your proposal will be less competitive without this crucial information.
- Explain external partner and/or participant benefits
- How does the project benefit your partners and/or participants?
- Provide evidence that shows you communicated with the community partners and/or participants about how they view the project’s benefit (e.g. detailed communications, a report, a direct request from the community, etc.)
- Explain campus partner and/or participant benefits
- How does the project benefit the campus partners and/or participants? (e.g. faculty, staff, students, campus groups.)
Project plans and timeline
- Describe the process for how you plan to achieve your goals and objectives, including a detailed timeline. (250 words maximum)
- Describe scenarios for how you will modify your plans to address COVID-19 restrictions as needed. (250 words maximum)
- Input approximate start and end dates for your Community Impact Grant-affiliated activities
Assessment plans (250 words maximum)
Describe your project assessment plans including how you will monitor the quality of your outreach work, assess whether your work reached stated project objectives and how you will gather relevant feedback from project participants.
Detailed Budget Information
- Funding requested: Total dollar amount of funding requested from the Office for Outreach and Engagement ($5,000 limit, including GAIR, currently 7.89% of your total budget).
- Budget narrative: Provide an explanation and justification of how funds will be used to support the activities described in the funding request. Specifically explain how your budget will support the activities and people described in your proposal and how the project might change if funding is not awarded. (250 words maximum)
- Other funding sources: Describe other sources of funding for your project, including any matching funds available from your department/unit. (250 words maximum)
- Grant budget worksheet: Use the budget worksheet template, then upload the completed budget template with your online submission. The budget should include:
- Itemized expenses you are requesting from OOE for your project including a breakdown of the dollar amount and a brief description of the projected expenses (e.g. hourly rate for student pay and number of hours to be worked, cost of individual hotel rooms, per diem per person, etc.).
- Cost of GAIR (General Administrative and Infrastructure Recharge), currently assessed at 7.89% of your total budget. All outreach accounts, which are Fund 29 accounts, are subject to GAIR fees from the university.
