Grantee Stories & Videos

Andrea Cristina Mercado, executive director of the New Florida Majority, spoke in Denver about a question that animates political debate as much as it does our own experiences.

The Colorado Trust is supporting these efforts in the Grand Valley via its Community Partnerships approach.

Many well-meaning adults see teens as a problem; in this southern Colorado town, they’re a solution.

Andrea Cristina Mercado, executive director of Florida Rising and the New Florida Majority Education Fund, shared her experiences organizing alongside women in immigrant and low-income communities, and moving hearts and minds to reimagine what is possible.

Lessons from revitalization efforts led by young people in the Hillside neighborhood.

Language is power, explains Rosa Guzman-Snyder, founder of the Community Language Cooperative.

In Pueblo County, communities hope that talking about the past will influence the future.

Violence against Indigenous womxn is “political and purposeful,” said Lakota activist Taté Walker in the latest presentation of The Trust’s Health Equity Learning Series.

Taté Walker presented on the violence and marginalization faced by Indigenous women, primarily due to the ongoing, chronic impacts of settler colonialism. Walker, who is Lakota and a citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, is an Indigenous rights activist and award-winning multimedia storyteller.

People living in a small farming town in southwestern Colorado found they need to work together to get things done. They’re not the only ones.