Do you want your charitable gifts to focus on a particular issue facing Northern Colorado or benefit a specific community? You can easily search through our nonprofit partners* to find one or more you’d like to support.
*on this webpage we refer to the nonprofits who have agency endowment funds with the foundation as our “nonprofit partners”.
Connecting
The process of sharing a common experience, state, or bond with others, which may include spiritual, emotional, or cultural connections.
Priority Issues: Education, social connectivity and belonging, recreation
Beautifying
The process of enhancing, improving, or adorning to emphasize desirable features and/or to express significance, meaning, or value.
Priority Issues: Cultural expression, music, arts
Nourishing
The process of providing all that is necessary for health growth, development, and physical, mental, and emotional conditions. Nourishment is one of the most basic, but important indicators of well-being on both an individual and regional scale.
Priority Issues: Agriculture, water, energy transitions, food security
Renewing
The process of rejuvenating, renewing vitality and energy, and creating ourselves, our relationships and our places anew. Continuing and bettering our communities through civic engagement, philanthropy, and volunteerism. Renewing involves a regenerative mindset in which we give, care for, and engage in our communities to help everyone achieve well-being.
Priority Issues: Community contributions, civic engagement, philanthropy
Sheltering and Caring
Facilitating access to a place of stability and renewal that supports individuals in achieving personal growth and long-term well-being.
Priority Issues: Affordable housing, aging population, healthcare, childcare
Transacting
The process of exchanging goods, services, or information with the intention of fulfilling a particular need, desire, or objective.
Priority Issues: Workforce, rural economies, transportation
Much of the work in the Transacting Intersection is done by larger systems—like school districts and post-secondary entities in partnership with the nonprofit sector.
Additional Partners
While not every nonprofit fits neatly into these specific areas, each one plays a vital role—making a meaningful impact and enriching our communities every single day.
