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- Caring for Colorado Awards $10.3 Million in Grants
- Youth Health and Well-Being Funding Opportunity Opens Sept. 9th, 2025
- With Gratitude: Celebrating Two Remarkable Team Members
Caring for Colorado Awards $10.3 Million in Grants
Caring for Colorado has awarded our first grants from our new 10-year strategic direction—focused on advancing health, well-being and opportunity for young people ages 9–25 and their families.
Our funding is centered on reaching young people furthest from opportunity. We prioritize prevention, systems change, and policy improvements to create lasting, generational impact. Grant awards ranged from $60,000 to $300,000 over 12 to 36 months. Learn more about our new 10-year strategic direction.
$9.26 million was awarded to 49 organizations statewide in our Youth Health and Well-Being priority, with investments in programs that support young people, strengthen families, and build youth-centered communities. See the full list of YHWB funded organizations here.
$995,500 was awarded to 20 organizations with our Caring for Pueblo County priority with funding to improve health, well-being, and opportunity for children, youth, and families in Pueblo County. See the full list of funded organizations here.
Youth Health and Well-Being Funding Opportunity Opening Soon
Our next Youth Health and Well-Being funding opportunity opens on September 9, 2025. Stay tuned for full details and application guidance when the opportunity opens in September.
Celebrating Our Departing Team Members
After 18 years of service, Heidi Van Law, CFO and Executive Vice President, will retire from Caring for Colorado at the end of September. Joining as a controller, she went on to build all of CFC’s operational and financial systems, lead our finance and investment committee, and help launch the Centennial Fund, a 501(c)(3) subsidiary.
In recent years, Heidi advanced our impact investing work, and worked to move funds into community development financial institutions to strengthen local lending. She oversaw the accounting function for 18 consecutive “clean” audits and shared her deep nonprofit finance expertise with staff and partners. A passionate advocate for rural and underserved communities, Heidi worked quietly but with great generosity of spirit. We are deeply grateful for her leadership and will miss her tremendously.
After nearly five years with Caring for Colorado, Juana Rosa Cavero, Director of ReproCollab, is leaving Caring for Colorado at the end of September to join a national reproductive justice advocacy organization. While at Caring for Colorado, Juana Rosa led our reproductive health initiative—formerly the Colorado Collaborative for Reproductive Health—into its second phase, named ReproCollab, with a sharper focus on health equity and in communities most often left out of quality, comprehensive reproductive health care.
Her passion for reproductive rights brought new funders and technical experts to the table, expanding and deepening the work of ReproCollab across Colorado. We will miss her energy, “can-do” spirit, and bright smile, and are excited to see her impact grow on the national stage.
