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Outreach Funding

Outreach Funding

Our office helps fund outreach and engagement projects that connect research, teaching and creative work with communities external to CU Boulder around Colorado and beyond and fit with the campus' strategic priorities of fostering innovation, training tomorrow’s leaders and positively impacting humanity. 

The annual CU Boulder Outreach Awards as well as our office's Community Impact, Micro and Undergraduate Grant programs fund project-related expenses such as, stipends, materials, supplies, equipment, travel and more. Each funding type has its own selection criteria, application requirements and allowable expenses.

The Office for Outreach and Engagement is currently accepting proposals for the CU Boulder Outreach Awards. The deadline to apply is April 14 by 5:00 p.m. 

Attend a virtual information session to learn more about the CU Boulder Outreach Awards application requirements and process. 

  • Register for Wednesday, March 8, from 12:00-12:30 pm
    • https://cuboulder.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcof-morz4tG9NvcKOJdaobtHJphbo4O-q_

Who Can Apply

  • Faculty can apply for the CU Boulder Outreach Awards
  • Faculty, staff and graduate students (with faculty support) can apply for our office micro and community impact grants
  • Undergraduates can apply for the office’s Undergraduate Community-Engaged Scholars grants

What funding works for me? Download a comparison sheet. 

Other campus funding

Undergraduate Funding

2022 Community-Engaged Scholarship Showcase Digital Flipbook

click here to access the digital flip book

The 2022 Community-Engaged Scholarship Showcase highlights a range of current outreach and engagement projects that broadly address environmental sustainability and the impacts of climate change. In this flipbook, you’ll find informational posters that illustrate how CU faculty, staff, students and community partners are working together to tackle issues like wildfire (including the Marshall Fire), water conservation, air quality, etc. and explore how communities grieve, heal and co-create solutions. Explore the flipbook here.

Funding Types

Students and teacher from Ryan Elementary in Lafayette, CO exploring a potential design for an educational toy.

CU Boulder Outreach Awards

  • Awarded by interdisciplinary CU Boulder Outreach Awards Committee
  • Supports substantive faculty-led outreach and engagement projects
  • Up to $24,000 (group), $11,000 (individual)  
  • Proposals due April 14, 2023
  • For CU Boulder faculty
Business owners in Vail talk about entrepreneurship through a Leeds School of Business workshop.

Office Community Impact Grants

  • Seed or extend community-engaged work
  • Up to $5,000
  • Deadlines have passed for academic year 2022–23. Stay tuned for 2023-2024 deadlines.
  • For CU Boulder faculty, staff and graduate students (with faculty support)
  • Awarded by our office
  • Note that Community Impact Grants offered by our office are different from the DEI Impact Grants offered by the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. For information about the latter, please see here. 
 Boulder Affordable Housing Research Initiative Researcher Gabby Murillo conducts a survey about affordable housing with a Boulder resident.

Office Micro Grants

  • Community-engaged scholarship and outreach-related events, materials, travel, and partnership development.
  • Up to $2,000
  • Deadlines have passed for academic year 2022–23. Stay tuned for 2023-2024 deadlines.
  • For CU Boulder faculty, staff and graduate students (with faculty support)
  • Awarded by our office
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Office for Outreach and Engagement

1505 University Ave, 178 UCB 
Boulder, CO  80309
outreach@colorado.edu

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