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This video examines the Community Partnerships for Health Equity strategy, which ran from 2014 to 2022. It focuses on Fort Morgan Cultures United for Progress, a group of community members that participated in the strategy and helped create lasting change in the northeast Colorado city of Fort Morgan.

Officials and community members celebrated the grand opening of a new community center in Clifton.

At the heart of the Community Partnerships initiative was the belief that, in order to improve community health and well-being, people most affected by challenges should play a lead role in determining how to address them. To support participating community teams in creating a lasting legacy of service to their neighbors and families, The Colorado Trust committed more than $6 million to culminate the initiative in 2022 and 2023.

The 4-year-old East Colfax Community Collective has already made an outsize impact advocating for residents and small businesses in one of Denver’s most diverse neighborhoods.

With funding from The Colorado Trust and others, one of Mesa County’s most impoverished communities is set for some significant enhancements.

The Colorado Trust announces its first six grants as part of the Culminating Phase of the Community Partnerships strategy

To help the Saguache community prosper, residents developed their own version of the Family Leadership Training Institute program.

Strong social ties may be more important than anything else.

A founder of a decades-old senior meal program finds herself setting the table again.

Dozens of Safeway and Albertsons grocery stores have closed in recent years, leaving food deserts behind. The company’s private equity owners may be to blame.