The Community Partnership for Child Development received a $25,000 Daniels Fund grant to support family services for the Colorado Preschool program. The program is offered to children 3 to 5 years old, and also helps their families receive education and support. CPCD serves 671 children in the program. The grant will be used to provide [...] [...]
The Colorado Center on Law and Policy received a $371,000 grant from the Kresge Foundation to strengthen poverty-reduction efforts across the state. The three-year grant is the first of its kind the foundation has made in Colorado, and will provide resources to enhance group efforts to reduce poverty – creating tools such as online databases [...] [...]
The Colorado Department of Health and Environment has received an award of $400,000 from the federal government to make “fundamental changes” in health departments around the state. The grant comes from the Affordable Care Act and is administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The goal is to create an effective public health [...] [...]
The Southeast Colorado Regional Heritage Task Force has received a grant to help document the role of Bent’s New Fort in the Sand Creek Massacre. Bent’s New Fort was built in 1853 after the abandonment nearby of Bent’s Old Fort, which was a 19th-century trading post on the Santa Fe Trail. It became the staging [...] [...]
The University of Colorado Aging Center has received a $731,872 grant from the Colorado Health Foundation. The agency will use the money to expand partnerships with Peak Vista Community Health Centers and other Pikes Peak area senior-care providers. The three-year grant will increases the Colorado Foundation’s support of the center at the University of Colorado [...] [...]
SET Family Medical Clinics received a $400,000 grant from The Colorado Trust, the second largest grant in the nonprofit health care clinic’s history. The money will be sued to provide medical and health care services to underserved people – including the homeless, people without health insurance and those who are under-insured. The grant is second [...] [...]
The Pikes Peak Workforce Center is sponsoring a new program that provides up to $15,000 for local companies to train employees in issues related to energy efficiency. The program is offered through a partnership between the PPWFC and the State Energy Sector Partnership. The organizations hope to encourage local companies across a wide range of [...] [...]
Colorado College received a $10 million grant for high-need and first-generation students. The grant came from the Walton Family Foundation, and the college’s goal is to match the grant with an additional $10 million, creating a $20 million infusion of new endowed scholarship funds during the next five years. “This addition to our endowed financial [...] [...]
The Colorado Telehealth Network will receive a total of $9.7 million to connect Colorado health care facilities to a statewide broadband network. Hospitals, rural health clinics and other providers can share medical information across large distances – minimizing patient travel time and reducing health care costs. “This major milestone will bring Colorado one step closer [...] [...]
The Colorado State Historical Fund of the state historical society has awarded a $170,700 grant to Grace and St. Stephen’s Church for preservation of McWilliams House, which houses the church offices. The grant money will augment $114,468 the church is contributing toward the project, said Mark Stritzel, chair of the McWilliams House Rehabilitation Committee, and [...] [...]
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