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Larimer County behavioral health staff propose renewal streamlining and tiered grants for Impact Fund
Summary
Behavioral Health Services presented data from six years of the Impact Fund and recommended procedural changes for the 2025 grant cycle: earlier application dates, four clear funding tiers, more budget flexibility, and a pilot renewal process to allocate roughly half the 2025 dollars to multi‑year‑style renewals for proven grantees.
Larimer County Behavioral Health Services officials outlined proposed administrative changes to the county’s Impact Fund at a Feb. 12 work session, saying the recommendations respond to six years of grant data and rising application demand.
The proposal in brief: Amy Martinis, director of Behavioral Health Services, and Jessica Plummer, the Impact Fund program manager, told the board the county has invested about $14.7 million through the Impact Fund in 228 grants to 72 unique organizations since 2019. For the 2025 cycle the department expects about $2.8 million to award; Plummer said requests in 2024 totaled about $7.5 million. She said roughly 70% of awards in prior years have been continuation requests from previous grantees and about 50% of awards have been partial awards.
Why change the process: Plummer said the growing number of applications (84 last year) and the time required from volunteer reviewers and…
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