Grantees

Supported the Colorado Pedals Project, a four-year initiative to make Colorado the best place in the nation to ride a bicycle. Programming includes supporting bicycle lanes and access in underserved neighborhoods and communities statewide.

Helped hospitals across the state to further strengthen their quality improvement systems, ensuring safe patient care. Learn more.

Supported expanding opportunities within the program to students wishing to focus on health equity, in hopes of developing non-traditional leaders from rural or other marginalized communities.

Provided emergency bridge funding for the Colorado Family Planning Initiative, specifically to support long-acting reversible contraception, pending possible funding decisions by the state legislature in 2016. The Trust has committed to assisting the multi-member funding collaborative in reaching its overall funding goals as outlined to the department.

Provided assistance coordinating multi-payer activities under the Colorado State Innovation Model initiative, including meeting strategy, facilitation and coordination, and implementation assistance and ongoing consultation.

In conjunction with CSU Denver Extension, LiveWell Colorado and Community Initiatives, support for the Colorado Food Policy Network to establish a formal peer-to-peer mentor network and host two regional “action institutes” to advance the capacity of local food policy councils to improve healthy food access in their communities.

The Civil War Trust was approached by the National Park Service (NPS) and the State of Colorado to preserve a critical 640-acre tract at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site. The 640-acre tract was transferred to NPS for incorporation into the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site. The Trust is one of numerous Colorado organizations that supported this effort.

The initiative provided funding, training and tailored technical assistance services to 34 grantee after-school programs across the state, with an aim to develop and support after-school programming strategies that capitalize on the strengths of young people, families and communities. In each program, emphasis was placed on three main goals: positive youth development strategies, cultural competency development (for both staff and program activities) and partnerships designed to foster stronger adult and youth engagement, as well as support for the program. Learn more.

Supported a comprehensive study of state and local government financing in Colorado to improve the state’s ability to expand health coverage and care.

Support to conduct a health policy seminar for Colorado state legislators to provide them detailed information on each of the policy strategies included in the report from the Blue Ribbon Commission on Health Care Reform.