The State of Colorado is excited to share an opportunity for rural Colorado communities to form regional teams and receive technical assistance for accelerated recovery from COVID-19. The “Resiliency and Recovery Roadmaps” will enable communities to take a long-term view of recovery, reimagine their economies, and take advantage of emerging trends and opportunities.
COVID-19 represents one of the greatest disruptions of our lifetimes, requiring our communities to partner across jurisdictional boundaries in order to effectively respond to change and elevate community assets to solve shared problems. We are excited to offer communities an opportunity to work together to support diversifying and strengthening their economies while building your region’s resiliency.
The project is limited to Regional Community Teams from rural counties (which excludes Boulder County, City and County of Broomfield, City and County of Denver, Jefferson County, and Douglas County) and from municipalities with populations under 50,000 within rural counties statewide. Participating jurisdictions should be rural in character.
This opportunity is a collaboration of the Department of Local Affairs (DOLA), the Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT), and the Colorado Rural Workforce Consortium, along with the Colorado-based non-profit Community Builders and others.
We are now accepting Letters of Interest, through December 1, from eligible rural communities interested in receiving technical assistance to develop a “Rural Colorado COVID-19 Economic Recovery and Resiliency Plan” (“Recovery Roadmap” for short). The objective of the Letter of Interest is to encourage and jumpstart the formation of informal Regional Community Teams before the request for a formal application. These Roadmaps will meet communities where they are in their recovery planning and help align with existing broader community visions.
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