Grant Opportunities
for the EMTS System
The FY-08 Foothills RETAC Mini-Grant Guidelines and Grant Applications are now available!
MiniGrant Applications are due into the RETAC office by November 31, 2007
Hearings/Scoring will take place December 10, 2007
Funds will be awarded by end of year
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EMS Provider Grants. Recruitment and Retention Grant, and Emergency Grants:
These grants can all be found at the prehospital Division of the Colorado Department of Health and
Environment. To access specific information on each of these grants, and their timelines, you can find the
website at: http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/em/Grants/PCPGrant
Colorado Rural Health AED Grant Program:
The Colorado Rural Health Organization has partnered with the 11 RETACs within the state to distribute
AEDs. The RETAC gave out 6 AEDs in 2003 and 8 AEDs in 2004, 6 in 2005 and this year we will only be
able to give to our LAST rural county, which is Grand County..
What a great partnership this has been!
Stay Tuned........
Stay tuned to this web page as we proceed. We'll post new opportunities for funding as it becomes available. We have a lot of interesting possibilities right now, and are working with other partners such as the HRSA grant(CDC) and Homeland Security people to develop and coordinate our funding efforts.
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FRETAC Mini Grants
Description and Purpose:
Four years ago, the FRETAC Council started putting money "away" to start a grant
process within our five county region. The FRETAC grant process is divided into two
divisions. These are the "County Subsidy Grants" and the "EMS Agency Grants."
FRETAC County Subsidy Grant:
Each year a letter is sent to each set of our county commissioners. The letter states
that $5,000 is available to them for "Basic EMS Needs". After they send back the
attestation form included in the letter, a check is sent to the county. It is up to each
set of commissioners as to how the funds are spent and who will decide where the
funds go.
FRETAC Competitive Mini-Grants:
After sending out checks to each county, we then start the second part of the
process. Grant applications are sent to all our EMS agencies and our listserve. The grants are
patterned after the CDPHE grant process, but widdled down considerably. The
FRETAC board takes more stock of the narrative portion of the grant than any other
portion. Priorities for the FRETAC Grant include BASIC NEEDS (training,
equipment, education, and transportation), REGIONAL PROJECTS, and
INTERAGENCY/COUNTY COOPERATION.
The Grant cycle begins November of each year. Stay tuned for the 08 applications.
These are awarded in December of each year.
Congratulations to last year's FRETAC Grant Recipients
Awarded December 06
Boulder EMD: $ 3,000 EMDCont. Ed Training
Evergreen Fire: $ 1,700 IO Equipments
Grand County Ambulance $ 5,000 EMT Education
Highland Rescue Team $ 8,144 AEDs
Lefthand Fire: $ 3,083 AED Upgrades and CEs
Grand Lake Fire $ 3,267 AED Trainer/Pagers
Total Awarded Aprox. $25,000
The Foothills RETAC Council members are very committed to not only organizing, facilitating, and acting as a resource to our EMS members, but to also provide cold hard cash to those EMS providers in need.
Our group is always on the lookout for financing opportunities for our members.
We hope you'll use the information provided as a resource for the funding challenges that EMS is now facing.
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Foothills RETAC
Grants Page