{"id":18372,"date":"2025-08-04T23:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-opens-2026-community-support-grant\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:03:30","slug":"cortez-opens-2026-community-support-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-opens-2026-community-support-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez opens 2026 Community Support Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8effd9ee-6457-5c51-821d-59feccf8d803&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" alt=\"Community Support Grant announcement graphic. (Courtesy photo\/City of Cortez)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Community Support Grant announcement graphic. (Courtesy photo\/City of Cortez)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Cortez is now accepting applications for grants of up to $5,000 from organizations that uplift the city.<\/p>\n<p>Taken from the city\u2019s general fund, awarded funds from the Community Support Grant will be given to groups that \u201cpreserve or enrich the health, education, and welfare of the community,\u201d a news release from the city reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommunity support organizations may receive grants, up to $5,000, to support activities and programs that are accessible to the city of Cortez community and encourage the development of healthy community organizations that provide programs for community welfare and education in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deadline to apply is Oct. 17 at 5 p.m. Announcements for awards will be sent out early in December and funding will be distributed by January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Applications can be submitted to Debbie Speer via email at <a href=\"mailto:dspeer@cortezco.gov\">dspeer@cortezco.gov<\/a>. Applicants may also deliver copies via mail or in person to City of Cortez, Attn: Debbie Speer, 123 Roger Smith Ave., Cortez, CO 81321;<\/p>\n<p>For more information please contact Debbie Speer at (970) 564-4019 or Wendy Mimiaga at 970-564-4075. Applicants can also find details at the c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cortezco.gov\/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1168\" id=\"link-ba9e56443dbd9b04909009a6b18e1d78\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ity of Cortez website\u2019s community supports grant page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organizations that support health, education and welfare for community could receive up to $5k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-18372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20552,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18372\/revisions\/20552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18372"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=18372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}