COMMUNITY GRANT PROGRAM
Applications for Community Grants are announced each January and awardees are announced in March to coincide with Brain Injury Awareness Month. Community grant cycles run for 1 year and begin in July and end in June of the following year.
MINDSOURCE Brain Injury Network is excited to announce the opening of our 2025 Community Grant! The grant application will be open throughout the month of February.
- You can find complete information in the Fiscal Year 2026 Community Grant Announcement.
- Applications for the Fiscal Year 2026 Community Grant are due on February 28th at 5:00pm. All grants must be submitted here and include an attached budget in the approved budget spreadsheet.
- MINDSOURCE is hosting a Q&A session on Monday, February 10th at 11am. You can join the Q&A session with this zoom link.
The application period is open from Monday, February 3rd and closes on Friday, February 28th at 5:00pm. Awards will be announced in March to help us celebrate Brain Injury Awareness Month. The contracted grant period will run from July 1st, 2025 through June 12th, 2026 and will not exceed $10,000 per award.
This year’s announcement highlights the areas of priority and preference, including projects that increase education and outreach for brain injury in Colorado while seeking to expand the infrastructure and capacity of support systems as it relates to the Colorado Brain Injury Model. Projects must be specific to brain injury to qualify for funding. This may include, but is not limited to providing education and/or outreach for:
- Disproportionately affected populations, e.g. older adults, lower socio-economic status families, veterans, unhoused individuals and families, and survivors of domestic violence.
- Infrastructure building for capacity and tracking of the Colorado Brain Injury Model, including implementation of NASHIA’s OBISSS (Online Brain Injury Screening and Support System) and A.H.E.A.D., A Psycho-Educational Curriculum for Traumatic Brain Injury. This may include funding of implementation activities, such as providing incentives for staff, holding in-person trainings, paying for specialized certifications for organization change agents.
- Transition programs for youth with brain injuries who are transitioning from primary to secondary school or vocational training programs.
- Caregivers about brain injury and available resources.
Preference given to applicants that demonstrate how the award will create or sustain:
- Cooperation between agencies and organizations
- Use of matched or braided funding
RESEARCH GRANT PROGRAM
The regular current grant application period has closed.
The goals of the Trust Fund Research Grant Program include: 1) facilitation of the acquisition and advancement of new knowledge regarding brain injury 2) improvement of the evidence base upon which the care of persons with brain injury is predicated, and 3) encouragement of the development and growth of the brain injury research field in Colorado.
MINDSOURCE awards grants to support research in Colorado related to the treatment and understanding of traumatic brain injuries. The Research Program has established the following two research priorities: basic science and clinical science and health services and outcome research. Research is funded at two levels: Type I (up to $50,000/year for two years) and Type II (up to $150,000/year for two years), plus a maximum of 20% indirect costs, over a two-year period.
Information about current and past projects can be found here.