Deadline: 05-Aug-21
Caring for Colorado Foundation is seeking applications for its grant program to improve the lives of children and families in Colorado through collaboration, partnership, shared knowledge and grantmaking.
Focus Areas
Caring for Colorado Foundation Focus Areas are:
- Healthy Beginnings: They believe infants, young children and their caregivers need and deserve equitable access to supportive resources that nurture healthy development.
- Healthy Youth: They believe promoting youth-friendly services, centering youth voice and addressing systemic inequities are foundational to the healthy development of youth.
- Strong and Resilient Families: They believe all families need support and deserve equitable access to resources that nurture development, behavioral health, stability and healthy relationships.
- Public Policy Advocacy: They believe public policy advocacy and systems changes can advance justice and equity and achieve the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
Principles
Caring for Colorado roots their grantmaking program in the purpose of achieving equity, health and well-being for Colorado’s children and families. The grantmaking guiding principles are:
- They center the health and well-being of all children, youth and their families, and they prioritize resources and attention to children living in families with low incomes, children and youth of color, and children and youth who experience systemic injustice.
- They center the voice and perspective of children, youth, families and caregivers and support efforts that seek, integrate, and respond to their insights and solutions.
- They center organizations that are rooted in and trusted by the children, youth and communities they serve.
Caring for Colorado Does Not Fund
- For-profit entities
- Annual appeals or membership drives
- Financial support for political candidates
- Fee-based programming without a robust sliding scale
- Pregnancy resource centers
- Research (costs specifically associated with the research process such as design, investigation or analysis)
Eligibility Criteria
Caring for Colorado will consider applications from and awards to organizations who benefit Colorado and are:
- Charitable nonprofit organizations with tax-exempt classification from the Internal Revenue Service; or
- Tax-supported institutions including state and local governments and schools.
Note that new or emerging organizations are permitted to apply through a tax-exempt organization acting as fiscal agent. The most common type of fiscal agent arrangement is between a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization and a non-tax-exempt group. The fiscal agent has the ultimate authority and responsibility to see that the funds are used for the purpose intended; it cannot simply be a pass-through organization.
For more information, visit https://caringforcolorado.org/grants/seeking-a-grant/