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Get Involved

Denver has many community opportunities and grassroots organizations that promote street safety.

One such organization is Denver Streets Partnership, a non-profit that advocates for people-friendly streets in Denver. They are an advisory board member for Denver’s Vision Zero Program and facilitate numerous community-led safety initiatives. One is working with residents to experiment with temporary demonstration projects that address specific street safety issues.

These projects allow community members to interact with changes in real time and decide whether they want to see these installations made permanent.

This has been successful in securing community support for specific design changes.

Here are some changes that have been or will soon be built as permanent changes by Denver’s Vision Zero team:

community members and Vision Zero staff talk at an event

How Can I Play a Role in Reaching Vision Zero in Denver?

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Community Opportunities to Promote Street Safety

Community Streets

A colorful circular mural in an intersection, featuring the C from the Colorado flag at the center

The Community Streets Program supports community members to install temporary artwork in the public right-of-way. DOTI reviews, approves and provides financial and logistics support. The intersection artwork murals are often utilized to enhance community cohesion, improve aesthetics and create a more engaging pedestrian environment near schools, parks or along business corridors.

Information on funding a project, how to host a project or to see past projects:

Community Streets Program

Micro Grants

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The Community Support Mini Grants program prioritizes projects and/or activities that will create a stronger, more connected neighborhood and address community needs such as safe streets.

Denver Economic Development & Opportunity’s division of Neighborhood Equity & Stabilization (NEST), in partnership with the Denver Foundation, is offering mini grants ranging from $500-$10,000 to support the meaningful and necessary work of nonprofit organizations, community groups, and micro businesses in some of Denver’s most vulnerable neighborhoods.

Funding is available for small, community-driven projects designed to create a stronger and more connected neighborhood, and address community needs.

NEST

Denver Community Active Living Coalition (CALC) in partnership with the Department of Transportation & Infrastructure (DOTI) and Denver Streets Partnership (DSP) invite you to get creative about living an active life in your neighborhood! We are offering Micro-Grants of up to $500 for individuals and $1,500 for businesses and organizations in support of walkability, bikeability, or access to safe and healthy spaces for physical activity. Applications opened on April 19, 2024 and will be reviewed on a rolling basis throughout 2024 or until funds are fully spent. Learn more and apply:

www.denvercalc.org/microgrants

20 MPH Yard Sign

20 mile per hour sign reading Hey Denver, it's time to slow down

In April 2023, Denver updated the speed limit on local streets. There are nearly 4,000 signs that need to be created, installed, replaced, or removed across 78 neighborhoods. This effort is anticipating completion in spring 2026.

Get a yard sign for your lawn and show your support for the new speed limit:

denvergov.org/20mph

Car Seat

OCBE staff host an event at Castro Elementary

The Child Passenger Safety Collaboration of Colorado (CPSCC) with Denver’s Booster and Seatbelt Engagement Program (BASE) and HealthOne Swedish Medical Center Injury Prevention, provides child passenger safety education, encouraging safe practices, and assisting underinvested communities in receiving new car and booster seats.

Child Passenger Safety and Seatbelts (CPS and BASE)

Teen Safety

The Denver Teen Safe Streets (TSS) program is a youth program to empower a team of Ambassadors to promote transportation safety, educate young people about teen driving programs such as the Graduated Drivers’ License, and reinforce social norms for young drivers, bicyclists and transit users to travel safely on Denver’s roads. TSS is a grant program funded through the Highway Safety Office (HSO) at the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT).

Teen Safe Streets