President's Inclusive Excellence Grants

President's Inclusive Excellence Grants [1]

The President’s Inclusive Excellence Grants support innovative and creative initiatives that advance inclusive excellence across the University of Colorado. These grants are open to proposals demonstrating exceptional dedication to advancing the university’s strategic goals through innovation, problem-solving, and serving diverse communities. Successful projects will integrate inclusive practices into institutional structures, remove barriers, create pathways to success, and cultivate environments where people feel valued, respected, and empowered to contribute.

Grant proposals must be submitted by CU full-time faculty* or full-time staff. Students or student groups interested in submitting a proposal will need to have a faculty or staff sponsor submit the proposal and include a letter of support.

*Full-time CU tenured faculty, tenure track faculty, and IRC faculty (instructional, research, and clinical).

Selection Process: Proposals are also reviewed by campus representatives who forward the top proposals to a system-wide selection committee. The system-wide selection committee, consisting of representatives from each campus, will review the proposals and rate them based on the criteria listed below.

Funding Amounts: Proposal funding is for one year with a maximum request of $8,000 per year.

Past President's Grant Recipients [2]

Proposal Rating Criteria

Additional Considerations

Proposal Format

Proposals must follow the required format.

1. One Page Cover Sheet, which to include:

Title of the project;
Name, title, department, phone number, and email address of project lead(s);
List of project collaborators; and
A brief description of and purpose for the project.

2. Proposal Narrative, which includes (in three pages or less):

Project description
- What is the issue or challenge you are looking to address?
- How does your project or initiative address your identified issue or challenge? What are the major activities or components?
- How does this project align to campus-wide goals related to inclusive excellence?
- How will you collaborate with or involve other members of CU (students, staff, faculty, other departments, units, alumni) and/or community members?
- How do you intend to institutionalize your program or strategy once this grant funding has ended?
Evaluation
- How will you evaluate the success of your program or initiative? (indicators, data collection methods)
Timeframe for project completion

3. Budget and Justification

A complete and detailed budget that includes the precise dollar amount requested and justification for the request.
- Commitment for funding is given only on an annual basis, and such commitment should not be construed as a commitment for future funding.
- Lack of a clear, itemized budget is grounds for denying funding.
- If funds are to be used for the purchase of equipment or materials (including computer software or hardware), the proposal must indicate why they are essential to the project, and who will be responsible for them and how they will be used after the project has been completed.
- Funds CANNOT be used for faculty or staff salaries or course buyouts. Salary support for students (e.g. research assistants or other student assistants) is allowed.
- All funds must be spent in accordance with university fiscal and procurement policies.
- Speed type must be submitted by selected applicants to the Office of DEI at systemdei@cu.edu [3] before May 31, 2025 or risk forfeiture of funding. Please contact your campus budget office if you have questions about which speed type to use.

4. One letter of support from advisor, supervisor, department chair, dean, or other officer/leader.

Timeline and Notice of Award

Post-Award Reporting

Questions?

Submit a President's Inclusive Excellence Grant Application [6]

Groups audience:

Office of Collaboration