Community Engagement Pilot Grant Program (CE-Pilot)
Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI), University of Colorado Anschutz
Two-tier pilot funding for community-academic research partnerships: $8,000 Partnership Development Projects for new partners, and $30,000 Joint Pilot Projects for established partnerships doing T3/T4 translational work in real-world community settings.
- Indicative award
- $8k–$30k (total award)Two published tiers: $8,000 for Partnership Development Projects and $30,000 for Joint Pilot Projects.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · Jan, FebNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Annual cycle. For the 2026 round the page published an intent-to-apply deadline of 26 January 2026, an application deadline of 27 February 2026 and an 1 August 2026 award start. Those dates have passed; the next cycle should be expected on the same January/February rhythm.
- Who can apply
- Early-career faculty, Any faculty rank, Community organisation
- Eligibility
- Requires community and academic co-PIs. The academic co-PI must hold a full-time faculty appointment at a CCTSI-affiliated institution (CU campuses, Colorado State University, partner health systems). Primary research site must be in Colorado. Community partners engaged only as advisors or for recruitment are not acceptable.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- community-based participatory research · community-academic partnership · translational research · health equity
- Apply at
- https://cctsi.cuanschutz.edu/funding/cepilot
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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