- Families
- Adult Visitors
- Kids & Students
- Educators
- Archaeologists & Preservationists
- Archaeology & Historic Preservation Events
- Learn About Historic Preservation & Archaeology
- Useful Resources
- National and State Registers
- Program for Avocational Archaeological Certification (PAAC)
- City & County Government Preservation Programs (CLG)
- Cultural Resource Management
- Permits, Statutes & Regulations
- Office of Archaeology & Historic Preservation
- State Preservation Plan
- Grants & Financial Incentives
- Economic Benefits Report
- Grant Seekers & Recipients
- Researchers
Priorities for Funding
The following types of projects generally receive favorable scores. However, this list should not dissuade an applicant from applying for another type of project. Do not hesitate to contact Dan Corson or other OAHP staff with your ideas about a grant project. In fact, this is encouraged.
- Identifying, evaluating, interpreting and/or nominating properties to the local, State or National registers.
- Protecting historic and prehistoric properties.
- Preservation planning.
- Educational such as plaques, interpretative signs, website development, videos or walking tour brochures.
- Training for commission members and staff.
- Involving innovative technology or techniques.
Reimbursement for staff time may be part of an eligible grant project, but may not be as competitive for mature programs.
Eligible projects for funding consideration include but are not limited to:
- Surveys to identify historic/prehistoric resources in order to complete or update local cultural resource inventories.
- Development of historic/prehistoric contexts for evaluation of resources identified during the survey process.
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Comprehensive historic preservation planning that may include:
- Development of community-wide preservation plans.
- Designations of local landmark districts.
- Development of architectural design guidelines.
- Improvement of local historic preservation ordinances.
- Support for technical or professional administrative assistance to commissions.
- Nomination of properties to the National, State or local register.
- Public education programs, activities or publications that create an awareness or understanding of local, state or federal preservation programs, or that inform broad sectors of the public on preservation issues, including website development.
- Educational speakers, programs, sessions and conferences for historic preservation commissioners.
- Innovative projects that address the application or development of new methods, tools or technologies having potential for broad application beyond a specific project.
Applications for funding will be evaluated on the basis of the above considerations as well as Scoring Criteria specified in this set of guidelines. Additionally, if grant application reviewers believe that there are more projects worthy of funding than available money, they may consider certain non-scored factors. These non-scored factors may include past performance in administering CLG grant projects, past performance on other CLG requirements such as timely submitting minutes, annual reports and state tax credit resolutions, and equitable issues such as geographic representation, number of grants awarded in previous years and maturity of a local program.
Please note that new state contract management regulations require History Colorado to consider prior contract management performance when awarding grants.
Contacts
Office of Archaeology & Historic Preservation
Location:
History Colorado Center
1200 Broadway
Denver, CO 80203
Hours:
8:00 am to 5:00 pm Mon. - Fri.
Phone: 303-866-3392
Fax: 303-866-2711
email: oahp@state.co.us

