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Read our most recent announcements and press releases about our work. We also share stories from the field that illustrate our grantee partners’ local and statewide efforts to create equity in health, well-being, and opportunity for Colorado’s children and families.
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Funding Opportunities Open for Organizations Advancing Youth Health and Well-Being
We’re working to advance health and well-being for young people, ages 9 to 25, in Colorado who experience health inequities due to economic injustice, racism, and discrimination through strategic investments designed to support young people, strengthen families, and build youth-centered communities.
Announcing our New Strategic Direction
This past year, as we concluded a five-year strategic plan and knowing our work would change starting this fall, we offered renewal funding for existing grantee organizations in the Healthy Beginnings, Healthy Youth, and Strong & Resilient Families focus areas as well as for the Packard Fund for Pueblo’s Children, Youth, and Families focus area.
Caring for Colorado Announces 2024 Grants Awards
This past year, as we concluded a five-year strategic plan and knowing our work would change starting this fall, we offered renewal funding for existing grantee organizations in the Healthy Beginnings, Healthy Youth, and Strong & Resilient Families focus areas as well as for the Packard Fund for Pueblo’s Children, Youth, and Families focus area.
July 2024 Newsletter
Featured in this Newsletter
• Safety net clinics improving access to contraceptive care in 38 counties
• We’re hiring a senior philanthropy lead and an operations and project manager!
Announcing Caring for Colorado’s New 10-Year Focus
Based on what we’re learning, and understanding our niche within Colorado’s philanthropy ecosystem, we are happy and excited to share that for the next decade, Caring for Colorado will focus all our efforts in three important ways.
Update on Pueblo Grant Opportunities
Moving forward, the Packard Fund for Pueblo will operate only one responsive grantmaking cycle per year focused on children, youth, and families.
May 2024 Newsletter
Featured in this Newsletter
• Youth Share Mental Health Insights Through Listening Sessions
• Students in Pueblo Raise and Award $21,000 to Local Organizations
• New Team Member: Welcome Rachel
2023 Annual Report
We are pleased to highlight Caring for Colorado’s grantmaking in 2023 during which we awarded $12.3 million in grants to 214 nonprofit organizations across Colorado. Our work is centered on improving conditions, services, and policies throughout our state so that all...
February 2024 Newsletter
Featured in this Newsletter
• 25 Nonprofits in 16 Eastern Colorado Counties Receive $1.2M as Part of the DOLA Nonprofit Infrastructure Grant Program
• Pueblo Youth Action Council Fundraising for Grant Program
• Board Member Perspectives: Giving Done Right
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Phone: 303-414-6719