2012 Grantees
Mon, 08/06/2012 - 12:01 — CivicAdmin
Public Policy & Advocacy
| Amount: | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | $7500 |
| CO Conservation Voters Education Fund | Engaging in long-term base building strategies that seek to diversify support for environmental issues | $6500 |
| Colorado Center on Law and Policy | Supporting the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute's work toward justice and economic security for lower income Coloradans | $7500 |
| 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 (CIRC) | Defending and advancing justice for all immigrants and refugees in Colorado and the United States | $5000 |
| Colorado Progressive Coalition | Uniting diverse communities on issues of racial, economic, environmental, and social justice to build a more progressive future for Colorado | $7500 |
| 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 |
| Compañeros | Protecting and expanding immigrant rights and culture in the Four Corners area of Colorado | $1000 |
| FRESC: Good Jobs, Strong Communities | Educating, organizing, and empowering the working families of the Front Range to hold governments and corporations accountable for responsible community-centered development | $5000 |
| Hispanic Affairs Project | Encouraging leadership formation, community organizing, and advocacy in Western Colorado’s Hispanic immigrant communities | $3000 |
| 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 | $2500 |
| Together Colorado | Assisting ordinary people in a process of strengthening and transforming their communities | $5000 |
| Working America Education Fund | Providing a progressive perspective on economic issues to American communities that are often overlooked or dismissed | $2500 |
| YMCA of Boulder Valley | Providing empowerment opportunities to at-risk youth | $3000 |
Direct Services
| Amount: | ||
|---|---|---|
| Alternatives for Youth | Promoting academic success through positive choices for at-risk students in Longmont | $3000 |
| Attention Homes | Providing residential treatment, counseling, and safe shelter to at-risk youth | $3500 |
| 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 OASOS program, which provides vital support and leadership development to LGBTIQ youth | $5000 |
| Cal-Wood Education Center | Providing at-risk youth life-changing summer camp experiences | $2500 |
| Colorado Nonprofit Development Center | Supporting the Colorado Participation Project's efforts to increase direct service providers’ participation in advocacy | $5000 |
| Cottonwood Insitute | Providing access to high-quality, high-impact educational programs for traditionally underserved public school students | $3000 |
| Immigrant Legal Center of Boulder County | Offering low cost legal services to the immigrant community of Boulder County | $5000 |
| Intercambio: Uniting Communities | Reducing language & cultural barriers for immigrants | $3000 |
| Out Boulder | Addressing the needs of Boulder County’s LGBTIQ population through education, support services, social events, and advocacy | $2500 |
| Safe Shelter of St. Vrain Valley | Providing safety & support to women & children who are affected by domestic violence | $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 |
| Women's Wilderness Institute | Strengthening the courage, confidence, and leadership qualities of girls & women, through wilderness and community-based experiences | $3000 |
| YMCA of Boulder Valley | Providing at-risk youth empowerment opportunities | $3000 |
Media
| Amount: | ||
|---|---|---|
| Aspen Journalism | Serving the Roaring Fork Valley by producing investigative journalism in the local public interest | $2500 |
| Colorado Public Television | Supporting Colorado Public News's in-depth projects on issues ranging from healthcare to immigration reform and realities | $10000 |
| Free Press | Changing media and technology policies, promoting the public interest, and strengthening democracy | $5000 |
| KGNU Community Radio | Providing a channel for individuals, groups, issues and music that have been under-represented by other media | $5000 |
| Open Media Foundation | Enabling all people to represent their own voice in the media conversation | $1000 |
| ProgressNow Education Fund | Providing a credible voice in advancing progressive solutions to critical community problems | $13000 |
| Public Education and Business Coalition | Supporting Education News Colorado's continuing, in-depth coverage of education policymaking in the legislature and state government | $5000 |
| Rocky Mountain PBS | Supporting the Investigative News Network (I-News) in its work to fill the void in serious public-interest journalism | $15000 |
| University of Colorado Foundation | Supporting various media organizations on University of Colorado campuses across the state | $15000 |
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 | $1000 |
| 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 Community Hospital Foundation | Supporting the Red Lipstick Fund, which assists cancer patients with everyday needs not specifically related to treating their disease | $4000 |
| Boulder Valley Women's Health Center | Providing sexual health services and education to Boulder County residents | $12450 |
| Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition | Reversing the trend of mass incarceration in Colorado | $1500 |
| 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 | $3750 |
| Colorado Nonprofit Development Center | Supporting FOCUS, an offender re-entry mentoring program | $5000 |
| Colorado Symphony Association | Supporting the operations of The Colorado Symphony | $7000 |
| Great Education Colorado Fund | Advocating for adequate funding of K-12 education in Colorado | $5000 |
| LIDA Project | Supporting the production of "Red Hot Patriot," a play about Molly Ivins | $1000 |
| Mile High Montessori | Preparing hundreds of Denver’s most vulnerable young children for success in school | $4500 |
| Moving to End Sexual Assault (MESA) | Addressing the causes and consequences of sexual assault in Boulder County | $1000 |
| 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 | $3000 |
| New Era Colorado Foundation | Reinventing politics for younger generations through innovative social and political action | $5000 |
| 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 | $6000 |
| Robert Golten Special Needs Fund | Ensuring that seemingly small things don’t push people in our community from self-sufficiency to poverty | $4500 |
| The White House Project | Advancing women's leadership at all levels of government | $2000 |
| Women Donors Network | Uniting powerful, visionary women committed to effecting lasting fundamental, progressive change | $15000 |
Special Projects
| Amount: | ||
|---|---|---|
| Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable | Building an inclusive, engaged, and equitable state by achieving progressive, public policy change | $26500 |
| Impact on Education | Building support for education in the Boulder Valley School District | $5000 |
| The Bell Policy Center | Working to reinvigorate the well-being of Coloradans and promoting policies that open gateways to opportunity | $65000 |
| The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County | Improving the quality of life in Boulder County, now and forever, and building a culture of giving | $26000 |
| The Futuro Media Group | Sharing a critical and unique perspective of our times through compelling narratives and investigative reporting | $5000 |
| University of Colorado Foundation | Supporting various programs on University of Colorado campuses across the state | $23500 |
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