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Pikes Peak, Colo. / Photo by Connor Betts

Partnering with people and organizations across Colorado to make our communities healthier.

The Colorado Trust provides funding and resources that can enable people to lead healthy, productive lives and actively participate in their communities. We ensure our funding initiatives are community-informed, culturally aware and responsive to local needs. This partnership-driven strategy aims to foster improvements in health equity across Colorado.

Funding Initiatives

We work with communities throughout Colorado to advance health equity.

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Community Resilience Initiatives

These funding opportunities address The Colorado Trust’s strategic plan focus areas of food, housing, and mental and behavioral health.

Program-related Investments

Since 2015, The Colorado Trust has used program-related investments (PRIs) as a tool to advance its mission and deepen its impact across Colorado.

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Rural Philanthropy Days

Supporting efforts to connect nonprofits and funders in order to improve health and well-being in rural regions of the state.

Funding History

Past Funding Initiatives
The Rainbow Bridge in Fort Morgan, Colorado, is a historic 1,110-foot, 11-arch concrete bridge built in 1923 over the South Platte River.

Building and Bridging Power

Supported the work of organizing people in communities experiencing inequities and building policy infrastructure with and between grassroots and grasstops organizations.
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Community Partnerships

People building power by coming together to transform unjust conditions in their communities for themselves and their neighbors.
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Health Equity Learning Series

The Health Equity Learning Series helps foster awareness, dialogue and learning in communities across Colorado about issues that impact health and well-being.

Learn about the health equity issues affecting Coloradans at Collective Colorado, a publication of The Colorado Trust.

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