Applications for spring, summer and fall projects are now open. Apply here!
The Office for Outreach and Engagement Micro Grants support projects that connect with communities external to CU Boulder.
Micro Grants support community-engaged scholarship and outreach-related events, materials, travel and more.
Please see the CU Boulder Outreach Awards for funding larger and ongoing community-engaged project requests. See our Community Impact Grants for seeding and extending new projects and our Undergraduate Community-Engaged Scholars Grants, if you are an undergraduate.
Community-engaged scholarship and outreach activities that are the most competitive provide clear evidence of how communities beyond the CU campus are involved in and benefit from the project and meet the following criteria:
- Align with the campus definition of outreach and engagement
- Align with our office's mission
- Involve communities external to the CU Boulder campus, especially those with less access to university resources (e.g. rural, black, indigenous, Latino, immigrant, low income)
- Connect to CU Boulder scholarship (research, teaching or creative work)
- Provide mutual benefit to CU Boulder and external community participants
- Promote equity, access and inclusion for groups with less access to university resources
- Develop innovative ways to address community issues in collaboration with community partners
Please be aware that multiple proposals from a single unit within a given cycle may not be awarded, because our office has made it a priority to support activities from units across campus.
Grant Funding Comparison Spreadsheet
Frequently Asked Questions about Office Grants
Questions?
Contact Katie Kleinhesselink, community outreach program manager