{"id":31790,"date":"2023-09-04T20:48:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T02:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-urges-nonprofit-organizations-to-apply-for-its-community-support-grant\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:46:23","slug":"cortez-urges-nonprofit-organizations-to-apply-for-its-community-support-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-urges-nonprofit-organizations-to-apply-for-its-community-support-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez urges nonprofit organizations to apply for its Community Support Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"
Organizations with the most community accessible programs are highly encouraged<\/div>\n

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The city of Cortez invites the public to tour the new City Hall from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 to 6 p.m. on Friday, March 17, at 123 N. Roger Smith Ave. The public is also invited to attend a building dedication at 5 p.m. A skylight with stained glass is overhead a seating area outside the City Council chambers in the new Cortez City Hall.<\/span>Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After this year\u2019s funding for Cortez\u2019s organizations that preserve and enrich the community\u2019s fitness, education, health and welfare, applications are now open for 2024\u2019s Cortez City Council Community Support Grant.<\/p>\n

Community organizations can apply until Oct. 13 for next year\u2019s funding.<\/p>\n

Nonprofits that have reached the State of Colorado\u2019s status for this grant include those that:<\/p>\n

Address a unique community need.<\/div>\n
Serve the community broadly.<\/div>\n
Avoid overlapping services.<\/div>\n
Are established service providers.<\/div>\n

According to a news release, the organizations that make programs and activities most accessible to Cortez\u2019s community are sought after.<\/p>\n

Only one application per organization may be submitted with a request up to $5,000, and they can be found at the Community Support Grant Application link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Applications will be evaluated according to its completeness, strengths and merits. Applicants should expect responses through the mail by December. Responses will include comments, award amount and funding agreements.<\/p>\n

Most applicants should expect payments to be mailed in early January.<\/p>\n

The deadline for the application is at 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. Complete applications can be emailed to dspeer@cortezco.gov<\/a> or addressed at:<\/p>\n

City of Cortez, Attn. Debbie Speer, 123 Roger Smith Ave., Cortez, CO 81321<\/p>\n

Organizations that receive city of Cortez funds for 2023 need to submit a follow-up report with their application. If they don\u2019t apply for 2024\u2019s grant, then organizations need to submit by Oct. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Organizations with the most community accessible programs are highly encouraged The city of Cortez invites the public to tour the new City Hall from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 to 6 p.m. on Friday, March 17, at 123 N. Roger Smith Ave. The public is also invited to attend a building dedication at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31791,"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-31790","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\/31790","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=31790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81566,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31790\/revisions\/81566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31790"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=31790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}