Announcing the 2025 Community Mitigation Grant Awards

[Josh Roberts]

Good morning and happy Friday!

We are pleased to announce the 2025 cycle awards of the Community Mitigation Grant program. We have awarded the fund pool of $100k to 19 different communities across the county. Attached is a list of the recipient communities, and see this link for a map. 

We have some great projects again this year and we look forward to working with these communities on their projects! Awarded projects will help to fund a range of activities, including wildfire mitigation treatments and hazardous fuels mitigation, community slash chipping and slash removal programs, and the acquisition of equipment, tools and supplies for neighborhood tool libraries and community use. All projects also incorporate neighbors working together, with many projects including neighborhood mitigation work days.

This year represents a strong interest and commitment from our communities in building resilient neighborhoods as a record number of proposals were received. We received 34 proposals this year with a total requested funding amount of $302,300. This represents the highest amount of applications we've received thus far, as well as the highest amount of total requested funding we've received thus far. See below for the number of proposals received and requested funding, by year. The program continues to grow and is eliciting a good deal of interest among our communities.

Year	Total # of Proposals Received	Total Amount of Funding Requested ($)
2025	34	$302,300
2024	21	$167,002
2023	10	$80,744
2022	14	$132,638

Of course we couldn't provide an award to all, but after careful evaluations and deliberation we tried to provide as much support as we could to as many communities as we could. We took the same approach as last year and provided a number of partial awards. Additionally, new this year, we are waiting on word back from a recent grant proposal we've submitted in an effort to help plus-up the available pool of funding we have to award through this program - so in addition to the selected recipients in the attached flyer we also provided "contingent awards" to another 6 different communities (i.e., they will receive an award later contingent on us receiving the plus-up of funding per our grant proposal). 

As always, thanks for your support of this program and for this important work and don't hesitate to shout if any questions!

	Josh Roberts Mitigation Coordinator EOC Planning Section Chief
	Office of Emergency Management 4872 Endeavor Drive, Johnstown CO 80534 W: 970-619-4903 | C: 239-777-7117 josh.r...@larimer.gov  www.larimer.org/emergency

[Jody Shadduck-McNally - Larimer Commissioner]

Well done Josh and Team!

For every dollar we spend on mitigation, the studies show we save $13 on suppression and recovery.

Great work and important resiliency-community building!

Thank You!

Commissioner Jody Shadduck-McNally

	Jody Shadduck-McNally Larimer County Commissioner, District 3
	Commissioner's Office 200 W Oak St, Fort Collins, 80521 | 2nd Floor W: (970) 498-7003| M: (970) 939-0558 jshadduc...@larimer.orgl | www.larimer.org