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Fireshed Fund

About the Fund

Since its launch in 2023, the Northern Colorado Fireshed Fund has awarded more than $2.4 million to 15 community-connected partners across the fireshed boundary, helping advance forest resilience, partner capacity, and landscape-scale wildfire mitigation efforts.

The Northern Colorado Fireshed Fund (Fireshed Fund) was established in partnership with the National Forest Foundation and the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests. The Fund allows NCFC to cultivate and allocate diverse funding sources to support community partners. Grants may build organizational capacity, enhance fireshed readiness, and increase the pace and scale of forest treatments throughout the region.

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Fireshed Fund Supporters

  • Logo of The Nature Conservancy featuring a green globe with a tree and river inside, and the text "The Nature Conservancy Colorado".
  • U.S. Forest Service badge with a green shield, yellow border, and a pine tree in the center. Text includes "Forest Service," "U.S.," and "Department of Agriculture."
  • Logo of the National Forest Foundation featuring a stylized tree and text.
  • Xcel Energy logo with a red swirl icon and black text on a white background.

2025 Fireshed Fund Impact

$1M

invested in healthy forests

2,500+

acres of non-federal lands treated

10

grantees awarded funds

8

prescribed fire burn plans written

Grantee Success Stories

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News
Catalyzing Wildfire Resilience in the Big Thompson Through Collaboration and Strategic Investments
Catalyzing Wildfire Resilience in the Big Thompson Through Collaboration and Strategic Investments

The challenges facing Northern Colorado’s forests and watersheds are larger than any single organization can solve alone. Recognizing this, Peaks to People Water Fund launched the Big Thompson Watershed Health Partnership (BTWHP) in late 2022 to provide the collaboration and shared strategy required to meaningfully reduce wildfire risk and strengthen watershed resilience.

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Reducing Risk in Soldier Canyon: Fireshed Fund at Work
Reducing Risk in Soldier Canyon: Fireshed Fund at Work

With support from the Fireshed Fund through the Larimer County Community Mitigation Grant Program, the Soldier Canyon community is taking big steps to reduce wildfire risk.

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Building Skills to Increase Wildfire Mitigation in Larimer County
Building Skills to Increase Wildfire Mitigation in Larimer County

At The Fireshed Fund, we’re proud to see our funding at work strengthening local wildfire resilience across Larimer County.  

Recently, three responders from Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department (RCVFD) wrapped up an S-212 Chainsaw Course lead by The Ember Alliance. The training helped bring together participants from Glacier View, Poudre Canyon, and Rist Canyon volunteer fire departments. 

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9 News | Clear Creek County’s first dedicated forester helping neighbors reduce wildfire risk
9 News | Clear Creek County’s first dedicated forester helping neighbors reduce wildfire risk

Clear Creek County has not experienced disturbance in the form of wildfire in over a hundred years. As Forest and Mitigation Manager for the Clear Creek Watershed & Forest Health Partnership, Kelby is working to change that trajectory.

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The Northern Colorado Fireshed Fund Awards over $1,000,000 to Local Organizations for Wildfire Resiliency Work
The Northern Colorado Fireshed Fund Awards over $1,000,000 to Local Organizations for Wildfire Resiliency Work

Since 2023, The Northern Colorado Fireshed Fund, in partnership with the National Forest Foundation, has awarded over $2.3 million to support community-led wildfire resiliency work in landscapes across Northern Colorado. In the latest grant cycle, the Fireshed Fund awarded over $1,045,000 to community groups to make our forests more resilient, our communities safer, and keep our water supplies reliable.

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Empowering Our Communities: The Larimer County Community Mitigation Grant Program
Empowering Our Communities: The Larimer County Community Mitigation Grant Program

The recent announcement of the 2024 cycle Community Mitigation Grant awards offer a good time to showcase the bona fide energy and community spirit contributing to resilience within our communities. After a careful evaluation process a total of 19 deserving recipient communities in Larimer County were awarded varying amounts distributed from a total funding pool of $100,000.

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How to Support

Companies, foundations, and other entities can donate to The Fireshed Fund. Organizations interested in supporting the Fireshed Fund can email sjones@emberalliance.org.

For Applicants

ROUND 4 OF THE FIRESHED FUND IS CLOSED. Please check back soon for future funding rounds.

How to apply:

Round Four of the Fireshed closed July 30th. Funding for this round was made possible through the generous support of Xcel Energy and The Nature Conservancy. Selected grantees will be notified soon.

How The Fireshed Fund Works

1

The Northern Colorado Fireshed Investment Committee will make recommendations to the NFF for Fund investments based on funding proposals received from NCFC partners.

2

The Investment Committee will coordinate the process of developing requests for proposals, soliciting and/or inviting proposals, and will set forth the submission requirements.

3

The Investment Committee will apply criteria informed by the Steering Committee to evaluate proposals to determine alignment with priorities and relative merit.

4

NFF will track and communicate specific requirements for each funding source to the Investment Committee (e.g., geography restrictions, reporting requirements, etc.).