2007 Grantees
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Public Policy & Advocacy
| Amount: | ||
|---|---|---|
| 9 to 5 Association of Working Women, Colorado Chapter | Strengthening women's ability to work for economic justice | $20,000 |
| 9to5 National Association of Working Women, Colorado Chapter | Improving the workplace for women and strengthening the ability of low-wage/low-income women in Colorado to win economic justice | $5,000 |
| Colorado Center on Law and Policy | Advocating for justice and economic security for lower income Coloradans | $15,000 |
| Colorado Progressive Coalition | Building coalitions, conducting research, organizing communities and getting out the vote | $25,000 |
| Common Cause Education Fund | Promoting citizen participation in democracy | $5,000 |
| El Centro Humanitario Para los Trabajador | Prpmoting the rights and well-being of day laborers through education, leadership development, and advocacy | $1,000 |
| Front Range Economic Strategy Center | Educating, organizing, and empowering working families | $15,000 |
| Latina Initiative | Cultivating, supporting, and maintaining the civic involvement of Latinas in Colorado | $15,000 |
| Padres Unidos | Working for educational equity, student rights, and justice for immigrants | $15,000 |
| Rights for All People | Organizing with immigrants and their allies to achieve justice, dignity, and human rights | $15,000 |
Direct Services
| Amount: | ||
|---|---|---|
| "I Have a Dream" Foundation | Supporting low-income students succeed academically, emotionally, and socially | $3,000 |
| Access Counseling | Providing low-cost counseling services to individuals who are unable to afford private counseling services elsewhere | $2,500 |
| Alternatives for Youth | Promoting academic success through positive choices and community impact | $2,500 |
| Attention Homes | Providing safe shelter and support for at-risk youth | $2,500 |
| Blue Sky Bridge | Working to end child abuse through prevention and intervention | $2,500 |
| Boulder Valley Safe Schools Coalition | Promoting safe school environments in BVSD, with particular concern for youth, parents of staff experiencing harassment for differences in gender identity/expression and sexual orientation | $1,000 |
| Catalyst Academy | Providing a nurturing & challenging educational community for at-risk students | $5,000 |
| Colorado Youth Program | Connecting underprivileged kids with nature and their communities | $2,500 |
| Compass House | Providing affordable counseling services to individuals and families | $5,000 |
| el Centro AMISTAD | Making structural, social, and political changes to benefit immigrants in Boulder County | $2,500 |
| Immigrant Legal Center of Boulder County | Assisting with immigration matters for low-income members of the community | $3,000 |
| Intercambio de Comunidades | Reducing language and cultural barriers for immigrants | $9,000 |
| Moving to End Sexual Assault (MESA) | Addressing the causes & consequences of sexual assault in Boulder County | $5,000 |
| Naropa University's Community Studies Center | Empowering Naropa students to identify and address public issues through direct service & infrastructure building | $2,500 |
| OASOS - Open & Affirming Sexual Orientation Support | Increasing healthy behaviors & decreasing risky behaviors of LGBTIQ youth (a program of the Boulder County Health Department) | $5,000 |
| Project YES | Providing leadership opportunities for young people through the arts and service learning | $4,500 |
| Safe Shelter of St. Vrain Valley | Providing safety & support to women and children who are affected by domestic violence | $2,500 |
| Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence | Working to end violence against women and youth | $3,000 |
| Social Venture Partners | Assisting nonprofit organizations in strengthening organizational capacity and sustainability (a program of the Community Foundation Serving Boulder County) | $5,000 |
| TEENS, Inc. | Offering recreational opportunities, youth employment and training, and support services for teens | $4,500 |
| United Black Women of Boulder Valley | Providing social, educational, spiritual, and emotional support for African American families | $2,500 |
| Volunteer Connection | Promoting volunteerism and helping community organizations effectively engage volunteers to meet community needs | $1,500 |
| Women's Wilderness Institute | Strengthening the courage, confidence, and leadership qualities of girls & women, through wilderness and community-based experiences | $2,500 |
| YMCA of Boulder County | Creating a supporting environment for youth to self-determine and refuel emotionally, socially, physically and intellectually | $5,000 |
Trustee Awards
| Amount: | ||
|---|---|---|
| Alliance for Justice | Strengthening the public interest community's ability to influence public policy | $2,500 |
| Alternatives to Violence | Providing intervention in, education about, and prevention of domestic violence, sexual assault and other violent crimes | $2,000 |
| BISC (Ballot Initiative Strategy Center) Foundation | Utilizing the ballot initiative process to further the goals of the labor and progressive community | $2,500 |
| Boulder Pride | Addressing the needs of Boulder County’s LGBTIQ population through education, support services, social events, and advocacy | $1,500 |
| Boulder Valley Women's Health | Providing quality health care for every woman | $7,500 |
| Center for International Human Rights, Law & Advocacy | Engaging graduate & law students at DU to protect & promote international human rights | $4,000 |
| COLOR | Educating, promoting, and advocating for health care and reproductive rights for Latinas | $5,000 |
| Colorado Consumer Health Initiative | Ensuring barrier-free access to quality health care | $2,500 |
| Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition | Reversing the trend of mass incarceration in Colorado | $15,000 |
| Colorado Music Festival | Educating and entertaining audiences of all ages by presenting classical music | $2,500 |
| CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) | Supporting Ethics Watch Colorado | $5,000 |
| Efforts of Grace, Inc. | Supporting the production of "The Katrina Monologues" | $1,000 |
| Great Education Colorado Fund | Advocating for adequate funding for K-12 education in Colorado | $2,500 |
| Moving to End Sexual Assault (MESA) | Addressing the causes & consequences of sexual assault in Boulder County | $8,000 |
| NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Foundation | Working to support and protect, as a fundamental freedom, a woman’s right to make personal decisions regarding the full range of reproductive choices | $1,000 |
| OUR Center | Unifying community resources to help people in the St. Vrain region meet their individual needs and move toward self-sufficiency | $5,000 |
| Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains - Longmont Health Center | Providing reproductive health care for teens | $9,000 |
| ProgressNow | Providing a credible voice in advancing progressive solutions to critical community problems | $5,000 |
| The GLBT Center of Colorado | Providing support & advocacy for the GLBT community of Colorado | $5,000 |
| The White House Project | Advancing women's leadership in all communities and sectors | $2,500 |
| Tides Center - Center for Independent Media | Training people on the use of the Internet as an alternative to traditional broadcast & print media | $5,000 |
| Women Donors Network | Mobilizing progressive women donors | $16,750 |
| Women's Foundation of Colorado | Working to help Colorado's women and girls achieve equality and economic self-sufficiency | $3,500 |
Special Projects
| Amount: | ||
|---|---|---|
| Chinook Fund | Transforming our society into one that promotes social justice and freedom from oppression | $10,000 |
| Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable | Building an inclusive, engaged, and equitable state by achieving progressive, public policy change | $25,000 |
| 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 | $10,000 |
| ProCO - Progressive Colorado | Developing and measuring the impact of 501(c)(3) base building in Colorado | $25,000 |
| The Bell Policy Center | A state-level, multi-issue policy center working to reinvigorate the well-being of Coloradans and to promote policies that open gateways to opportunity | $115,000 |