Post-News Season To Share, a fund of the McCormick Tribune Foundation, raised $1.29 million during last year’s campaign, breaking previous fundraising records. The money from 6,446 donors was matched with $500,000 from the foundation. Grants totaling $1.79 million were distributed in March. Recipient agencies were:
CHILDREN
The Adoption Exchange ($15,000) Served 321 Colorado children waiting for permanent families last year, 81 of whom were adopted.
Anchor Center for Blind Children ($40,000) Served 423 children last year, providing the tools necessary for young children with blindness or visual impairments to develop to their fullest potential.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado ($35,000) Provided 2,122 youths with caring adult mentors, helping the young people avoid negative behaviors.
Boulder Day Nursery Association ($25,000) Provided child-care scholarships worth almost $385,000 for its low-income clientele last year.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver ($20,000) About 7,200 children and youth members benefit from year-round programming at six facilities.
Colfax Community Network ($15,000) Provides families in low-income, transient housing along Colfax Avenue with information, services and programs.
Colorado Bright Beginnings ($25,000) Offers parents of infants and toddlers information about parenting, development, health issues and community resources.
The Conflict Center ($30,000) Reduces levels of physical, verbal and emotional violence by teaching and applying skills in diverse communities.
Denver Kids Inc. ($30,000) Connects Denver Public Schools students with counseling and mentoring adults.
Families First ($30,000) Child abuse and neglect prevention services include parent support groups, education classes and a statewide Family Support Line.
Family Advocacy, Care, Education and Support ($30,000) Provides services for the prevention and treatment of child abuse, neglect and family violence.
Metro Denver Partners ($15,000) Provides at-risk youth with supportive role models/mentors and program services empowering them to make positive life choices.
Mile High Montessori ($50,000) Provided child care for 945 Denver children last year.
Mount Saint Vincent ($35,000) Provides residential treatment for abused and neglected children.
Parenting Place ($25,000) Relieves isolation, reduces stress of parenting and prevents child abuse and neglect by providing outreach and education.
Project PAVE ($15,000) Helped empower 3,214 clients to end the cycle of relationship violence.
Sewall Child Development Center ($25,000) Meets the needs and enhances opportunities for young children with special needs.
Tennyson Center for Children ($25,000) The largest residential and day-treatment facility in the Rocky Mountain region for abused and neglected children ages 5 through 14.
Tiny Tim Center ($20,000) Provided physical, speech and occupational therapy for 387 children from birth to age 12 last year.
Warren Village ($40,000) Provides early-childhood education for the children of low-income, single parents moving from homelessness to permanent housing.
HOMELESS
ACS Community LIFT ($20,000) Provides families in crisis with emergency food, temporary housing, utility assistance and other supportive services.
Boulder Shelter for the Homeless ($30,000) Provides safe shelter, food, support services and an avenue to self-sufficiency for 1,000 homeless individuals.
Broadway Assistance Center ($20,000) Provides emergency services — food, clothing, medical care, and rent and utility assistance — to vulnerable residents of the Baker neighborhood.
Carriage House Homeless Community Center ($10,000) Offers Boulder’s homeless population hot meals, showers, case management and employment services.
Catholic Charities/Samaritan House ($50,000) Provides nearly 50 percent of housing for Denver’s homeless families and individuals.
The Delores Project ($15,000) Provided safe, comfortable shelter and services to about 400 adult women who were homeless last year.
Emergency Family Assistance Association ($35,000) Provided 3,000 families experiencing a short-term financial crisis with assistance.
Family HomeStead ($35,000) Helped 831 individuals and 232 families experiencing homelessness to stabilize and return to self-sufficiency.
Family Tree ($25,000) Jefferson County’s only shelter for battered women and their children served more than 25,000 people last year.
Gateway Battered Women’s Services ($25,000) Provides safe shelter and supportive services to victims of domestic violence in Aurora and Arapahoe County.
The Gathering Place ($50,000) A day shelter for up to 250 women and children experiencing homelessness.
Growing Home ($10,000) Network of 32 faith organizations houses and provides support services to 132 homeless families each year.
Inter-Church ARMS ($15,000) Provides rent/mortgage, utility, medical/dental and food aid to residents of northeastern Jefferson and northwestern Adams counties.
Jewish Family Service of Colorado ($15,000) Provided a food bank and emergency financial assistance to nearly 18,000 individuals and families.
Parent Pathways ($25,000) Provides teen parents with direct housing assistance, support services, life-skills counseling and parenting education.
Parker Task Force ($5,000) Provided food and financial assistance to 332 families in crisis in Parker, Elizabeth and Franktown last year.
Sacred Heart House of Denver ($25,000) Provided emergency housing and services for 80 mothers with 134 children and 61 single women last year.
Safe Shelter of St. Vrain Valley ($15,000) Served 664 battered women and children with shelter, meals, counseling and other services last year.
SafeHouse Denver ($30,000) Provides emergency shelter and bilingual nonresidential counseling and advocacy services specifically for battered women and children.
St. Francis Center ($40,000) Offers safety, meals and other basic needs during the daytime hours when overnight shelters are closed.
Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence ($15,000) Responded to 10,601 crisis calls, sheltered 297 women and children and counseled 1,349 people last year.
Sister Carmen Community Center ($10,000) Provides a food bank, rent assistance and necessities to more than 3,000 vulnerable people.
Special Transit ($20,000) Ensures access to shelter and health care for homeless, low-income seniors and people with disabilities.
Stride ($25,000) Offers training for families transitioning off public assistance and housing for homeless families.
Urban Peak ($50,000) Provides shelter, case management, education, employment and health services to more than 800 homeless and runaway youths last year.
Volunteers of America ($25,000) A 27-bed overnight shelter for homeless, single women with chronic mental illness served about 400 women last year.
Women’s Crisis and Family Outreach Center ($25,000) Provides emergency shelter, support and nonresidential counseling for women and child victims of domestic violence in Castle Rock and the area.
HUNGER
Capitol Hill Community Services ($40,000) Serves 53,000 meals each year with one full- and two part-time employees and volunteers.
Community Food Share ($45,000) Supplies food for 86 human service agencies.
COMPA Food Bank Ministry ($50,000) Served 170 hunger programs whose outreach provides for 49,000 people each week.
Food Bank of the Rockies ($50,000) Receives, transports and distributes 21.9 million pounds of food annually to more than 900 hungerrelief programs.
Project Angel Heart ($50,000) Provided meals to 1,400 individuals living with HIV/AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses, as well as their dependents.
MEDICAL
The Children’s Hospital Foundation ($50,000) Handles 18,000 patient visits per year for approximately 8,000 children, many of whom are uninsured or under-insured.
Clinica Campesina ($30,000) One dental and three medical clinics provide bilingual primary health care to almost 24,000 uninsured children and adults in eastern Boulder, Broomfield and western Adams counties.
Clinica Tepeyac ($30,000) Provided nearly 10,000 with culturally appropriate primary health care last year.
Commerce City Community Health Services ($30,000) Six school-based health clinics in Adams County serve 8,768 children with routine medical care.
Doctors Care ($35,000) Provides medical care to more than 3,500 uninsured children and adults in Douglas, Arapahoe and Elbert counties.
Inner City Health Center ($50,000) Recorded 20,441 medical, dental and mental health visits last year.
Kids in Need of Dentistry ($20,000) Provided 5,531 patient visits last year to low-income children.
National Jewish Medical and Research Center ($50,000) Addresses needs of children in kindergarten through eighth grade whose education is interrupted by chronic illness.
People’s Clinic ($25,000) Provided culturally appropriate medical care to nearly 9,000 Boulder County residents last year.
St. Joseph Hospital Foundation ($25,000) Serves more than 200 pregnant women annually with prenatal care, education and support.
