2005 Grantees
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Public Policy & Advocacy
| Amount: | ||
|---|---|---|
| Chinook Fund | Support for Chinook’s Social Justice Awareness Project | $10,000 |
| Colorado Center on Law and Policy | Justice and economic security for lower income Coloradans | $15,000 |
| Colorado Children's Campaign | Operating funds for a child advocacy organization | $10,000 |
| Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition | Operating funds to support criminal justice reform efforts | $7,500 |
| Colorado Progressive Coalition | Colorado's largest progressive membership organization and a leading voice for civil rights, racial justice, corporate accountability, tax fairness, and high quality education for all Coloradoans. | $15,000 |
| Common Cause Education Fund | A nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization to encourage citizen action, and promote open, honest and accountable government. | $5,000 |
| Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing | Southwest Paper Series towards bringing about a just and equitable society in which young people are recognized as valued members, decision-makers and leaders in constructing their own lives and communities. | $2,500 |
| Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training | GIFT develops and strengthens the grassroots fundraising skills of people working for social justice. | $5,000 |
| KGNU Boulder Community Radio | Boulder County's independent community radio station, dedicated to reflecting the diversity of the local and world community, and to providing a channel for individuals, groups, issues. | $10,000 |
| LARASA | Leads and influences change to improve the quality of life for the Latino community in Colorado. | $5,000 |
| One Nation Enlightened | Founded by youth and young adults in communities of color to build direct-action, grassroots organizing group and to train leaders and organizers in traditionally overlooked communities. | $5,000 |
| Padres Unidos | Multi-issue organization working for educational equity, student rights, and justice for immigrants | $5,000 |
| ProgressNow | A non-profit formed to provide a 'fair and balanced' response to the radical right-wing interests that dominate our region's politics and media. | $10,000 |
| Rights for All People | A grassroots immigrant rights group that organizes immigrants and their allies to achieve justice, dignity, and human rights for immigrants in Denver and throughout Colorado. | $10,000 |
| The Center | The Center is a focal point and catalyst for community organizing, support services, social activities, and cultural events for the LGBTQ community in Denver and throughout Colorado. | $7,500 |
Direct Services
| Amount: | ||
|---|---|---|
| Attention Homes | Provides safe shelter and support services to youth in Boulder County. | $5,000 |
| Boulder County Community Services Department | Support for the Youth Risk Behavior Survey | $5,000 |
| El Centro Humanitario Para Los Trabajadores | Operating support for an immmigrant day laborer organization to launch the Workers Legal Empowerment Project | $5,000 |
| El Comite | Support for human services and advocacy for the Latino community of Longmont | $5,000 |
| Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families | GCYF serves as a point of contact for grantmakers seeking collegial and collaborative relationships with other funders concerned with children, youth, and families. | $2,500 |
| Impact on Education | A nonprofit organization focused on leveraging community resources to impact student learning, create opportunities, and increase support for public education in the Boulder Valley School District. | $7,500 |
| Project YES | Provides leadership opportunities for young people through the arts and service learning. | $5,000 |
| Voices for Children | Provides coordination to match community volunteers with volunteer opportunities, and supports organizations seeking to engage volunteers. | $5,000 |
| Volunteer Connection | Provides coordination to match community volunteers with volunteer opportunities, and supports organizations seeking to engage volunteers. | $3,000 |
| YWCA of Boulder County | Serves women and their families through programs designed to protect children, empower women and girls, and eliminate racism. | $5,000 |
Trustee Awards
| Amount: | ||
|---|---|---|
| Boulder Valley Women's Health Center | Supports reproductive freedom and provides a full range of community education and gynecological health care services for every woman without respect to differences in income, race, disability, ethnicity, creed, age, and sexual orientation. | $5,000 |
| City of Denver, Office of Strategic and Philanthropic Partnerships | Serves as the primary liaison between the City and the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. | $2,500 |
| Coalition for the Medically Underserved | A membership organization working towards access to affordable, timely, quality health care for everyone in Colorado. | $5,000 |
| Colorado Consumer Health Initiative | A unified, statewide organization of consumers and consumer advocates whose goal is adequate and affordable health care for everyone. | $10,000 |
| Colorado Music Festival | CMF educates, entertains and challenges audiences of all ages by presenting classical music performed by extraordinary professional musicians from around the world at the historic Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder. | $2,500 |
| Early Care and Education Council of Boulder County | Support for a staff position for the Early Child and Education Sustainability Initiative | $5,000 |
| Economic Policy Institute | Working to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy | $10,000 |
| I Have a Dream Foundation of Boulder County | Promotes self-sufficiency and educational success for low-income children by providing a long-term program of mentoring, tutoring, social & academic enrichment, and guarantied scholarships for higher education. | $5,000 |
| Imagine! Foundation | Funds for a debt repayment campaign serving Imagine! clients in Boulder & Broomfield counties | $5,000 |
| Media Matters | Working to comprehensively monitor, analyze, and correct conservative misinformation in the U.S. media | $10,000 |
| MESA - Moving to End Sexual Assault | Works to end sexual assault by focusing on its causes and consequences and by providing an emergency hotline, counseling services, advocacy and information. | $3,500 |
| National Network of Grantmakers | NNG is an organization of individuals working within organized philanthropy to increase financial and other resources to groups committed to social and economic justice. | $2,500 |
| OUR Center | Provides basic needs services for low-income residents in the St. Vrain Valley. | $5,000 |
| Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, Longmont Teen Clinic | Provides reproductive healthcare for teens in Longmont. | $8,000 |
| Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence | A human rights rganization committed to ending violence against women, youth and children through support, advocacy, education and community organizing. | $3,500 |
| Social Venture Partners Boulder | An innovative way for community-minded individuals and business professionals to contribute actively to positive social change in Boulder County by investing expertise, time, and money through pooled resources and a venture capital approach to nonprofit organizations. | $5,000 |
| University of Pennsylvania Law School | Offers a legal education enhanced through cross-disciplinary studies. | $5,000 |
| Volunteer Connection | Provides coordination to match community volunteers with volunteer opportunities, and supports organizations seeking to engage volunteers. | $3,000 |
| White House Project | Working to enable progressive women to enter the American political pipeline | $10,000 |
| Women Donors Network | Provides the tools and relationships women need to be activist donors working together for progressive change. | $12,500 |
Special Projects
| Amount: | ||
|---|---|---|
| Bell Policy Center | A progressive public policy Institute dedicated to expanding opportunity and promoting effective government for all Coloradoans. | $100,000 |
| Philanthropic Community Organizing Collaborative of Colorado | A joint project of the Ford Foundation and 11 Colorado funders to expand philanthropic support for community organizing and to foster collaboration among community organizing groups working for social justice | $12,500 |
| Southwest Action | A regional support center that will provide resources and coordination to its state-level policy institutes, organizing and advocacy affiliates in the Southwestern States | $25,000 |
| State of Change | An online resource that will connect people to non-profits working to advance positive change at the state level | $50,000 |