Grantee Stories

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.

The 2015 John R. Moran, Jr. Grantee Leadership Awardee, Rural Resort Region Northwest Early Childhood Council.

In an effort to help address the disproportionate health burdens of American Indians in Colorado, The Trust created an endowed chair at the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health at the University of Colorado’s School of Public Health at Anschutz.

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.

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.

Ask Avondale residents for a wish list for their community, and you may hear things that sound a lot like basic political representation and public services.

Heather Nielson moved to town in 2009 to be near her husband’s family. He’s a truck driver and he’s gone a lot. She works taking care of their three-year-old son, and lately, has thrown herself into the job of remaking Dove Creek.

Navigating the inconveniences and biases of life in an immigrant family in Colorado turned out to be good training for the current phase of Jessely Chaparro’s life.

As many as 65,000 people in Colorado will continue to live with the threat of deportation—and its accompanying fear and stress—because of the Supreme Court deadlock.

Residents in the small, rural town of Antonito are working to “grow the future from the roots of the past.”