2011 Grantees
Tue, 07/19/2011 - 08:57 — CivicAdmin
Public Policy & Advocacy
| Amount: | ||
|---|---|---|
| 9 to 5 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 | $15000 |
| Colorado Center on Law and Policy | Advocating for justice and economic security for lower income Coloradans | $10000 |
| Colorado Conservation Voters Education Fund | Engaging in long-term base building strategies that seek to diversify support for environmental issues | $5000 |
| Colorado Ethics Watch | Using high impact legal actions to hold public officials and organizations accountable for unethical activities that undermine the integrity of state and local government | $2500 |
| Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition | Defending and advancing justice for all immigrants and refugees in Colorado and the United States | $8000 |
| Colorado Progressive Coalition | Uniting diverse communities on issues of racial, economic, environmental, and social justice to build a more progressive future for Colorado | $15000 |
| Common Cause Education Fund | Strengthening public participation and ensuring that government and the political process serve the public interest, rather than the special interests | $5000 |
| FRESC | Educating, organizing, and empowering the working families of the Front Range to hold governments and corporations accountable for responsible community-centered development | $10000 |
| Hispanic Affairs Project | Encouraging leadership formation, community organizing, and advocacy in Western Colorado’s Hispanic immigrant communities | $3000 |
| Latina Initiative | Cultivating, supporting, and maintaining the civic involvement of Latinas in Colorado | $5000 |
| Metro Organizations for People | Assisting ordinary people in a process of strengthening and transforming their communities | $2500 |
| OneColorado Education Fund | Securing and protecting equality and opportunity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Coloradans and their families | $5000 |
| Rights for All People / Derechos Para Todos | Organizing immigrants and their allies to achieve justice, dignity, and human rights | $5000 |
Direct Services
| Amount: | ||
|---|---|---|
| Anti-Defamation League of Boulder | Securing justice and fair treatment by teaching respect and inclusion for all | $2000 |
| Attention Homes | Providing residential treatment, counseling, and safe shelter to at-risk youth | $3000 |
| Boulder Community Housing Authority | Supporting Casa de la Esperanza's work to provide greater opportunities and success to the farm worker community in Longmont | $3000 |
| Boulder County Public Health | Supporting the GENESISTER project, which strives to prevent adolescent pregnancy by working with girls whose teenage sisters are already parenting | $2500 |
| Colorado Nonprofit Development Center on behalf of the Colorado Participation Project | Increasing direct service providers’ participation in advocacy | $4000 |
| Cottonwood Institute | Providing access to high-quality, high-impact educational programs for traditionally underserved public school students | $3000 |
| Immigrant Legal Center of Boulder County | Assisting low-income community members with immigration matters | $3000 |
| Impact on Education | Building support for education in the Boulder Valley School District | $3000 |
| Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence | Working to end violence against women and youth | $3000 |
| Second Wind Fund of Boulder County | Decreasing the incidence of suicide, by removing financial and social barriers to treatment for at-risk youth by providing free counseling services | $3000 |
| Social Venture Partners of Boulder County | Combining the power of business with a passion for giving to transform communities | $2500 |
| TEENS, Inc. | Helping Boulder County youth to increase levels of self-respect, self-worth and community involvement | $4500 |
Media
| Amount: | ||
|---|---|---|
| Aspen Journalism | Serving the Roaring Fork Valley by producing investigative journalism in the local public interest | $2500 |
| Colorado Public Television | Supporting the work of Colorado Public News | $10000 |
| ProgressNow Education | Providing a credible voice in advancing progressive solutions to critical community problems | $10000 |
| Rocky Mountain PBS | Supporting the work of I-News | $10000 |
| The American Independent News Network | Expanding public dialog by covering overlooked stories through traditional journalism & blogging | $10000 |
| University of Colorado Foundation | Supporting various media organizations on University of Colorado campuses across the state | $19500 |
Trustee Awards
| Amount: | ||
|---|---|---|
| Alliance for Justice | Advancing the cause of justice for all Americans, strengthening the public interest community's ability to influence public policy, and fostering the next generation of advocates | $2000 |
| Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC) Foundation | Tracking ballot measure developments and contributions to ballot measure campaigns as well as to training people to work on ballot initiatives | $2000 |
| Boulder Valley Women's Health Center | Providing sexual health services and education to Boulder County residents | $9500 |
| Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition | Reversing the trend of mass incarceration in Colorado | $5000 |
| Colorado Music Festival / Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts | Educating and entertaining audiences of all ages by presenting classical music performed by extraordinary professional musicians from around the world | $2500 |
| Colorado Nonprofit Development Center | Supporting the work of The Collaborative Community/FOCUS | $2000 |
| Great Education Colorado Fund | Advocating for adequate funding of K-12 education in Colorado | $2000 |
| Mile High Montessori | Preparing hundreds of Denver’s most vulnerable young children for success in school | $8000 |
| Moving to End Sexual Assault (MESA) | Addressing the causes and consequences of sexual assault in Boulder County | $3000 |
| OUR Center | Unifying a safety net of available resources to meet the basic needs of people with short term hardships and help them move toward self-sufficiency | $5000 |
| Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains | Providing Longmont teens access to medically accurate sexual health education through the Teen Health Services Project | $7500 |
| The White House Project | Advancing women's leadership in all communities | $2000 |
| Women Donors Network | Uniting powerful, visionary women committed to effecting lasting fundamental, progressive change | $20000 |
| Working America Education Fund | Providing a progressive perspective on economic issues to American communities that are often overlooked or dismissed | $2500 |
Special Projects
| Amount: | ||
|---|---|---|
| Chinook Fund | Transforming our society into one that promotes social justice and freedom from oppression | $2500 |
| Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable | Building an inclusive, engaged, and equitable state by achieving progressive, public policy change | $3000 |
| Futuro Media Group | Sharing a critical and unique perspective of our times through compelling narratives and investigative reporting | $5000 |
| The Bell Policy Center | Working to reinvigorate the well-being of Coloradans and promoting policies that open gateways to opportunity | $70000 |
| The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County | Improving the quality of life in Boulder County, now and forever, and building a culture of giving | $25000 |
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