More than $1.7 million was awarded to these agencies in the 2005-06 Season to Share campaign.
CHILDREN
The Adoption Exchange: $20,000
The Exchange served 417 Colorado children waiting for permanent families; 149 were adopted last year.
Boulder Day Nursery: $20,000
This agency provided scholarships worth more than $300,000 last year, while offering convenient child care for Boulder County’s working poor.
Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver: $20,000
One of the largest providers of after-school and summer programs in the Denver area, serving more than 22,000 youth annually at six clubs.
Colorado Bright Beginnings: $25,000
Warm Welcome and Moving On programs provide parents of children up to 3 years old with home visits and information on parenting, child development, immunizations, child safety, bonding and educational activities.
The Conflict Center: $30,000
This organization’s mission is to reduce levels of physical, verbal and emotional violence by teaching people in diverse communities to manage everyday conflicts nonviolently.
Denver Public Schools Pupil Assistance Fund: $20,000
Offers clothing vouchers, eye exams, glasses and hygiene items to the 63 percent of DPS students who qualify for free and reduced lunches.
Families First: $30,000
Offers parent support groups, education classes and a statewide hotline to aid in the prevention of child abuse and neglect.
Family Advocacy, Care, Education, Support: $30,000
FACES’ Home Visitation Program provides counseling, parenting education, case management, advocacy and support for prevention and treatment of child abuse and family violence.
Girls Inc.: $20,000
Offers educational programs that prepare girls ages 6 to 11 to succeed in school and create confident and successful futures.
Jewish Community Center: $10,000
The Early Childhood Center will use funds to allow low-income children to attend a program that integrates special needs and typical children.
Mile High Montessori: $50,000
Serves more than 1,000 low-income children each day using the Montessori model that promotes literacy and pro-social development.
Mount St. Vincent Home: $35,000
On-site school offers quality academic and emotional support for children with behavior issues who have been abused or neglected.
National Sports Center for the Disabled: $20,000
Sponsor An Athlete program ensures low-income youth with disabilities can participate in adaptive sports and therapeutic recreation programs.
Parent Pathways: $17,000
Infant/Toddler Learning Center in the Florence Crittendon School for teen mothers provides child care for the children of girls working toward a high school diploma.
Parenting Place: $25,000
Boulder’s Parenting Place works to relieve isolation, reduce the stress of parenting and prevent child abuse and neglect by providing outreach and a place where families can develop a sense of community.
Ronald McDonald House: $15,000
Provides low-cost, home-like lodging for families with a seriously ill or injured child who is receiving treatment at a Denver-area hospital.
Tiny Tim Center: $20,000
The Tiny Tim Center in Longmont serves 350 special needs and typical children each year with early childhood education, as well as speech, physical and occupational therapy.
Warren Village: $40,000
The Learning Center at Warren Village provides early childhood education for the children of low-income, single parents moving from homelessness and government assistance to self-sufficiency.
YWCA of Boulder County: $45,000
Operates Children’s Alley, the only drop-in or temporary child-care program in Boulder County. It served 464 children in 2004.
HOMELESS
Alternatives to Family Violence: $30,000
This Commerce City domestic violence shelter provided 5,844 nights of emergency shelter to 357 women and children.
Aurora Interchurch Task Force: $30,000
This agency provided food, clothing, transportation and utility assistance to nearly 15,000 Aurora residents experiencing financial hardship last year.
Broadway Assistance Center: $20,000
The Broadway Assistance Center offers a food bank, hot meals, clothing bank and rent, utility and employment assistance to the Baker neighborhood’s most vulnerable residents.
Catholic Charities: $50,000
Catholic Charities’ Samaritan House provided emergency housing for 5,773 individuals, 1,131 families, 1,128 children, and 204 veterans in 2005.
Denver Inner City Parish: $10,000
This agency’s food bank and emergency services offer support to low-income residents of the La Alma and Lincoln Park neighborhoods.
DenUM: $45,000
Denver Urban Ministries provided a food bank, rent and utility assistance, legal counseling and employment services to more than 54,000 of Denver’s low-income residents last year.
Emergency Family Assistance Association: $40,000
EFAA provides assistance with basic needs and housing to families, seniors and people with disabilities in Boulder and Broomfield counties.
Growing Home: $10,000
This program, formerly Adams County Interfaith Hospitality Network, is a network of 29 congregations, a university and a hospital that house and provide supportive services to north-metro homeless families.
Interfaith Hospitality Network of Greater Denver: $25,000
This collaboration of 49 churches offers shelter, meals and support services for homeless families.
Jeffco Action Center: $35,000
Programs include homeless shelters, food and clothing banks, utility and rent assistance, health clinic, tenant/landlord counseling, and the Santa Shop, where parents can obtain low-cost or free holiday gifts.
Jewish Family Service of Colorado: $15,000
Offers the Family Safety Net, a food bank and emergency services program for individuals and families experiencing financial difficulties.
Metro CareRing: $45,000
Volunteers contribute 18,000 hours annually to provide emergency food, utility assistance, personal care items and referrals to community services to over 10,000 households each year.
newgenesis: $20,000
Provides a therapeutic program that guides its residents to achieve financial stability, a commitment to sobriety and permanent housing.
Sacred Heart House: $25,000
Provided emergency housing and supportive services to 57 single women and 70 mothers with 119 children last year.
SafeHouse Denver: $35,000
The only agency in Denver that provides emergency shelter and bilingual non-residential counseling and advocacy services for women and children victims of domestic violence.
Stride: $25,000
Stride offers self-sufficiency training for families transitioning off public assistance, housing for homeless families and financial assistance so low-income children can participate in extracurricular activities.
Task Force of Douglas County: $25,000
Served 10,653 south metro residents with basic needs, including food, clothing and rent, transportation and utility assistance.
Urban Peak: $50,000
Offers shelter, case management, education, employment and health services to more than 800 homeless and runaway youth yearly.
Women’s Crisis and Family Outreach: $30,000
This crisis center offers emergency shelter, support and non-residential counseling for battered women in Castle Rock and surrounding areas.
HUNGER
Capitol Hill Community Services: $40,000
This agency operates five sites in central and northeast Denver that serve 4,400 hot lunches each month.
Colorado AIDS Project: $50,000
Food bank provides free groceries that meet the specific nutritional needs of people living with HIV/AIDS.
Community Food Share: $45,000
Boulder and Broomfield counties’ major food bank; distributed over 3 million pounds of food last year.
COMPA Food Bank Ministry: $50,000
COMPA supplies 140 local emergency feeding programs, neighborhood agencies and urban churches with food and expertise. Six million pounds of food was distributed last year.
Food Bank of the Rockies: $50,000
This agency distributed nearly 11 million pounds of food to 600 hunger relief programs in metro Denver.
Project Angel Heart: $50,000
Provides home-delivered meals to individuals living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-threatening illnesses, as well as their dependents.
Share Our Strength: $20,000
Share Our Strength’s Operation Frontline Colorado offers nutrition education, cooking classes and budgeting help to 500 families per year.
MEDICAL CARE
Bonfils Blood Center: $40,000
Bonfils will use this funding for high resolution DR antigen testing on its cord blood inventory, which will allow the center to make stronger matches with children needing bone marrow transplants.
Clinica Campesina: $30,000
This agency operates three medical clinics and one dental clinic in eastern Boulder, Broomfield and western Adams counties that served almost 24,000 people last year.
Clínica Tepeyac: $30,000
Provides low-cost health care in a respectful and culturally appropriate environment to west Denver’s uninsured.
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless: $40,000
Funding supports the Health Outreach Program Van, a mobile RV outfitted as a primary care health clinic for Denver’s homeless.
Commerce City Community Health Services: $30,000
Offers school- and community-based clinics that provide primary care for Adams County’s uninsured and low-income children and families.
Dental Aid: $40,000
Operates full service, sliding fee dental clinics in Boulder, Longmont, Louisville and Lafayette.
Doctors Care: $35,000
Provides uninsured children and adults in Arapahoe and Douglas counties access to quality primary and specialty medical care through a collaboration of volunteer doctors.
Howard Dental Center: $25,000
Dedicated to providing compassionate, quality dental care in a private setting for men, women, and children living with HIV/AIDS.
National Multiple Sclerosis Society: $25,000
Independent Living, Empowerment and Advocacy programs help needy clients with MS apply for Medicare benefits and live independently at home.
Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Society: $25,000
King Adult Day Enrichment Program is a day program for people with multiple sclerosis and other acquired neurological disabilities, offering activities, therapy and support.
Rocky Mountain Youth: $50,000
Health clinics are operated in partnership with community organizations serving youth. They provide accessible health care regardless of a child’s insurance status or ability to pay.
St. Joseph Hospital: $25,000
The Family Practice Center at St. Joseph Hospital provides preventative, chronic and acute care for uninsured and Medicaid-eligible children and families.