Grantee Stories & Videos

Colorado’s San Luis Valley is a place of rich agricultural landscapes between ragged peaks. It is a place with a cultural history all its own. It is also a place of intense poverty, where measures like income and life expectancy consistently lag behind other parts of the state.

The Colorado Trust took a dramatic shift in its direction in 2015, going directly to the communities most affected by these ills to ask questions rather than provide answers.

An astounding 93 percent of Coloradans had health insurance in 2015, according to the latest count by the Colorado Health Access Survey, up from 86 percent in 2013.

In Manzanola, residents are setting aside personal concerns to make a collective plan.

There’s a lot to love about the town of San Luis, writes Pauline Victoria Martinez.

In pockets of the state south of the El Paso County line, residents talk about feeling forgotten and underrepresented by county and state powerholders.

Corn, dancing in the street and some new roads, please.

The history of northeast Colorado hasn’t been written yet.

People living in Lago Vista Mobile Home Park outside of Loveland got together for a movie night.

A growing number of Americans are moving into mobile-home parks. In Lago Vista Mobile Home Park on the outskirts of Loveland, some people are hoping to strengthen the park’s sense of community.