This case study examines the efforts of the West Central Public Health Partnership. This partnership brought together public and environmental health officials from six counties along Colorado’s Western Slope to create the means to provide comprehensive regional public and environmental health services in the rural communities they serve. This study identifies the organizational elements that contributed to the group’s successes and highlights recommendations for other rural counties and funders considering similar endeavors.
Publications
This evaluation brief describes key field-building strategies, progress and learnings from work carried out by the Health Equity Advocacy Cohort from 2017 through 2019.
This overview of The Colorado Trust's prior vision, commitment and grantmaking also illustrated support of policies, programs and services that expand health coverage, and improve and expand health care.
Trusted Hands was a new approach to enrolling traditionally hard-to-reach children in public health insurance programs. This issue brief, prepared by researchers at the University of Colorado Denver, detailed both the advantages and challenges of the strategy.
Discusses how foundations can use evaluation as a tool for communicating effective grantmaking strategies, conducting cost-effective analyses, demonstrating stewardship and ensuring accountability.
This summary—developed by the Colorado Patient Safety Leadership Task Force with support from The Colorado Trust—provided a road map for patient safety activities in Colorado.
This infographic, using data from the 2011 Colorado Health Access Survey (CHAS), provided a view of uninsured adults eligible for subsidies, i.e. those most likely to buy health insurance through the state health insurance exchange.
A first-of-kind study that asked Colorado's young people what they think can be done to stop violence that affects them at home, at school and in their community. The Colorado Trust and the Families and Work Institute joined together to produce this study.
A first-of-kind study that asked Colorado's young people what they think can be done to stop violence that affects them at home, at school and in their community. The Colorado Trust and the Families and Work Institute joined together to produce this study.
Pages
An interactive, searchable database of all of The Trust’s publications from its 30 years of serving Coloradans.