Community Partnerships
People are building power by coming together to transform unjust conditions in their communities for themselves and their neighbors.
Overview
A more just and equitable society is a healthier society. The Trust’s Community Partnerships strategy supports communities across Colorado in recognizing and building their own power to achieve these conditions.
The Trust’s role in the partnership is to provide resources for capacity building, community organizing and collaboration at a local level. The majority of the work is done by communities themselves. Diverse teams of Coloradans first identify their own community’s existing assets, as well as barriers to justice and good health, and then propose and implement solutions with funding and input from The Trust.
We believe that building power is foundational, not only to changing community conditions, but also to shifting the policies and systems that shape communities. With the power to advocate on their own behalf and influence the systems that surround them, people who have previously been excluded from decision-making will create stronger, fairer and healthier communities throughout Colorado.
Click here to learn more about this strategy, as well as the Community Partnerships Organizing Cycle at its center.
Grant contact: Jodeen Olguín-Tayler, executive director of Community Partnerships, (303)837-1200.
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- Alamosa
- Antonito
- Avondale
- Clifton
- Craig
- Dog Patch (Pueblo)
- Dove Creek
- El Jebel
- Fort Morgan
- Fountain
- Hillside (Colo. Springs)
- Lago Vista Mobile Home Park (Loveland area)
- Montbello
- Northwest Aurora
- Olathe
- Parachute and Battlement Mesa (Grand Valley)
- Saguache and KV Estates
- San Luis
- Sheridan
- Yuma
Staff
Liberty Dosier
Denver Metro Area
Françoise Mbabazi
Denver Metro Area
Emmanuel Adolf Alzuphar
Denver Metro Area
Saira Yasmin Hamidi
Northeast Colorado
Krista Martinez
Northeast Colorado
Kelly Pollard
Northeast Colorado
Adriana Quintero
Northeast Colorado
Martha Girón-Correa
Northeast Colorado
Rena Trujillo
Northeast Colorado
Monica Hernandez
Southeast Colorado
Amanda Guerrero
Southeast Colorado
Sol Tafoya
Southeast Colorado
Katie Mackley
Northwest Colorado
Maritza Gutierrez
Northwest Colorado
Sierra Jeter
Northwest Colorado
Mia Ramirez
Colorado Springs & The Surrounding Five Counties
Courtney Hoff
Colorado Springs & The Surrounding Five Counties
Eric Hoshang Pavri
Colorado Springs & The Surrounding Five Counties
Max Kronstadt
Colorado Springs & The Surrounding Five Counties
Arden Trewartha
South Central Colorado
Israel García-Humes
South Central Colorado
Lia Carpio
South Central Colorado
Nancy Molina
South Central Colorado
Tori Martinez
South Central Colorado
Jose Luis Chavez
Southwest & West Central Colorado
Rachel Esters
Southwest & West Central Colorado
Tirzah Camacho
Southwest & West Central Colorado
Evaluation Process
To better understand the impact of the Community Partnerships strategy across Colorado, The Trust is working with several entities to perform a multi-level evaluation.
First, local evaluators are partnering with resident teams to assess their work and help them identify changes needed within community-level projects.
Second, an empowerment evaluation (managed by Change Matrix) is underway with funded communities and the local evaluators, to offer coaching, training and support for resident teams to design and conduct local-level evaluation of their health equity plans, and also to assure alignment with the strategy principle to build and sustain capacity in the communities. The evaluation measures are being directed by the resident teams.
Third, The Trust is working with an external contractor (Community Science) to complete a macro-evaluation of the strategy; at this level, the evaluation is assessing the strategy’s success in building power in communities.
Lastly, The Trust is conducting an ongoing process evaluation among resident teams, to better understand successes and challenges of partnering with The Trust on the Community Partnerships work. The goal is to use this feedback to improve the strategy and share back information, stories and learnings among resident teams.
Evaluation contact: Courtney Ricci, PhD, head of evaluation & learning for community change, 303-837-1200.