Advocacy Rapid Response Grant

Advocacy Rapid Response Funding aims to fund short-term advocacy initiatives (three-to-nine months in length) that ensure Coloradans’ interests and priorities are front and center in shaping policy decisions that will have long-term impacts on creating health equity in Colorado. Rapid Response funding focuses on advocacy work that reflects the following priorities:

• Creating equity in access to and use of high-quality, comprehensive primary care
• Supporting children to move their bodies safely and conveniently on a daily basis
• Enhancing services and supports that foster social-emotional development and resiliency of young children
• Ensuring teens and young adults have access to the resources they need to support healthy minds
• Ensuring adults have access to local recovery resources that promote healthy minds and productive lives
• Ensuring Coloradans have enough affordable, nutritious food
• Supporting access to affordable, safe and high-quality housing options

Proposed projects for rapid response funding may seek to:

• Promote a public policy change at the local, state and/or federal level related to one or more of the priorities listed below or;
• Protect or improve implementation of an existing local, state or federal policy related to one or more of the priorities listed above.