Grant History
Spring 2010
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Boulder Pride & VOICE, Boulder - $6500This is a collaboration between Boulder Pride and VOICE (Voices of Immigrant Children for Education and Equality) to carry out joint organizing around LGBTQ and immigrant rights.
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Colorado Transgender Rights Legal Defense & Education Project, Statewide - $3500COTRLDP seeks to protect, defend, and extend the civil rights of transgender and gender variant people in Colorado through litigation, education, and advocacy.
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Depression & Bipolar Support Alliance/BrainStorm, Colorado Springs - $2000
DBSA/Brainstorm's mission is to improve the lives of those living with mood disorders and other psychiatric disabilities, and to help persons living with psychiatric disabilities achieve economic independence.
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Eastside Growers Collective, Denver - $3500EGC operates with the purpose of connecting & preserving the rich and diminishing agrarian traditions of people of color in the North East Park Hill community. Connecting generations, implementing sustainable food systems, and strengthening neighborhood pride through the lens of a garden.
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GreenLeaf, Denver - $2000GreenLeaf seeks to create a community of youth and adults from diverse backgrounds. We are engaging youth with leadership and employment opportunities because we recognize the tremendous energy, knowledge, and skills young people possess. Together, we are growing and distributing affordable, healthy food for urban residents. GreenLeaf is committed to social justice as the driving force in this project. This includes building our capacities to forge authentic connections and work across differences such as class, race, sex, gender, and ability.
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Growing Colorado, Denver - $2000
We are a group of refugee youth who have been resettled in Colorado, displaced by international conflict. We come from families with multigenerational agricultural knowledge and possess a deep desire and passion to farm again here in America.
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Hispanic Affairs Project, Montrose - $3500HAP is dedicated to providing attention to the needs and social development of the Hispanic immigrant community through leadership formation, community organizing, and advocacy.
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Land Rights Council, San Luis - $8500LRC seeks to empower the community to access "use rights" granted by the Colorado Supreme Court. Provide a picture of the relationship between La Sierra (the mountain tract) and the people of the Rio Culebra Basin by developing a master plan to administer use rights in an environmentally sound manner. To continue alliances with local and regional land based advocacy groups in an effort to address open space and environmenta issues facing communities in the Rio Culebra watershed.
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Prax(us), Denver - $2500Prax(us) is dedicated to ending human trafficking. We address root causes of exploitation by creating systemic change and providing direct services through a comprehensive street outreach program. We conduct street outreach through a harm reduction lens that supports youth agency and facilitates access to resources. We achieve change through community organizing, collaborative relationships, community education, and policy work.
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Pueblo Inmigrante En Marcha, Pueblo - $4000Fomentar y construir una sociedad basada en la educacion participante, y la fe cristiana para contribuir a la integracion del inmigrante a la sociedad Norte Americana y a la vez esta sociedad reconozca el esfuerzo que nosotros inmigrantes realizan contidiana mente en este pais.
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Young People's Front for Democracy & Justice, Aurora - $2000YPFDJ strives to strengthen the capacity and consciousness of Eritrean youth through the exploration of various political theories and concepts coupled with hands on experience.
Fall 2009
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9 to 5 Colorado, Denver - $87009 to 5 Colorado is a grassroots organization created to address the issues of women directly affected by low-wage jobs, wefare, low-income child care, nonstandard work, unemployment and discrimination. Our mission is to improve the workplace for women and strengthen the ability of low-wage/no-wage women in Colorado to win economic justice.
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Alamosa Riverkeepers, San Luis - $8700Alamosa Riverkeepers' mission is "to strive for a clean functional river system which benefits the conomic, ecological and recreational needs of the community."
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Centro Humanitario Para Los Trabajadores, Denver - $8700El Centro Humanitario promotes the rights and well-being of day laborers in Colorado through education, job skill and leadership development, united action and advocacy.
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Colorado Anti-Violence Program, Denver - $8700The Colorado Anti-Violence Program is a grassroots, community-based organization working to end violence in all its forms against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities throughout Colorado. Our primary programming areas are training and education, community organizing, documentation and reporting, and direct victim services.
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Comite En Defensa Del Pueblo, Denver - $3900The committee in defense of the people is a group of workers, united forjustice for immigrants and the end to oppression in all its forms. We work in our community to promote social unities and to eliminate any kind of discrimination, using education as our primary tool for liberation. We work to unify they voices and needs of our community towards structural changes in the laws, that they respect human dignity in all its forms, the essential right to work, and the security of the family.
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Companeros, Durango - $8700Companeros advocates for immigrant and Latino rights in southwest Colorado, establishes networking and collaboration among Latinos, develop a Latino power base by establishing strong relationships with members of the Latino community, and effects policy change to improve the lives of Latinos and immigrants.
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Harm Reduction Action Center, Denver - $3900The mission of Harm Reduction Action Center is to educate, empower, and advocate for the health and dignity of Metro-Denver's injection drug users and affected partners in accordance with harm reduction principles.
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Rights for All People (Derechos Por Todos), Aurora - $8700
The mission of Rights for All People is to bring the voices of immigrants to the policy arena and the struggle for justice of all people. We do this as part of building a progressive movement in Colorado. Our main focus is to bring the growing link between immigration policy and law enforcement, thus protecting the Human Rights of all.
Spring 2009
