The Colorado River District’s Community Funding Partnership was created in 2021 to fund multi-purpose water projects on the Western Slope in five project categories: productive agriculture, infrastructure, healthy rivers, watershed health and water quality, and conservation and efficiency. Funding for the program was approved by Western Colorado voters as part of ballot question 7A in November 2020. These funds provide a catalyst for projects that are priorities for residents in the District to receive matching funds from state, federal and private sources.
Our water users build their own solutions.
“A producer’s career is every day, doing a little bit at a time, changing their landscape to improve it just enough to havethe production they need. That’s the ethos and the mentality of our funding program.”-Melissa Wills, Community Funding Partnership Program Manager
“The entire Colorado River Basin faces a future with less water, and the projects we fund through the Community Funding Partnership provide real-world solutions within our own District. The Accelerator Grant program is a success story of how local funding can catalyze durable, resilient and immediate actions across our communities.”
-Amy Moyer, Chief of Strategy
