{"id":21652,"date":"2025-05-02T02:41:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T02:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/search.insightful.design\/?p=21652"},"modified":"2025-05-02T02:41:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T02:41:29","slug":"circular-economy-fund-awards-50000-to-five-local-organizations-august-2025-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/search.insightful.design\/?p=21652","title":{"rendered":"Circular Economy Fund Awards $50,000 to Five Local Organizations \u2014 August 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Circular Economy Fund Awards $50,000 to Five Local Organizations \u2014 August 2025<\/h2>\n<p>Boulder County&#8217;s Resource Conservation Division has awarded $50,000 in grants to five local organizations through the 2026 Circular Economy Fund. Recipients include projects focused on food waste reduction, textile reuse, construction material salvage, and community repair events.<\/p>\n<p>The Resource Conservation processed over 3,686 applications last year, with an average processing time of 11 business days. Staff are available at the Boulder office Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM.<\/p>\n<p>Eligible participants include Boulder County residents with household incomes at or below 50% of Area Median Income (AMI). For a family of four, this is approximately $106,000 per year. Applications are processed on a first-come, first-served basis.<\/p>\n<h3>Details<\/h3>\n<p>Public comment on this matter can be submitted through the Boulder County online portal, by email to Resource Conservation, or in person at the next Board of County Commissioners meeting. Written comments received by 5:00 PM the day before the hearing will be included in the public record.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the 2025 Boulder County Community Survey shows that 40% of respondents rated this service as &#8220;important&#8221; or &#8220;very important.&#8221; The survey, conducted every two years, received 3,719 responses from residents across the county.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boulder County&#8217;s Resource Conservation Division has awarded $50,000 in grants to five local organizations through the 2026 Circular Economy Fund. Recipients include projects focused on food waste reduction, textile reuse, construction material salvage, and community repair events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":["post-21652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment-sustainability","tag-boulder-county","tag-demo-data","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/search.insightful.design\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/search.insightful.design\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/search.insightful.design\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/search.insightful.design\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/search.insightful.design\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/search.insightful.design\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/search.insightful.design\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/search.insightful.design\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}