Caring for Colorado’s statewide grant application for funding in Public Policy Advocacy is now open!
Donor Name: Caring for Colorado Foundation
State: Colorado
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/14/2023
Details:
Colorado prospers when the children thrive – Caring for Colorado is working to build a solid foundation for children by supporting programs and policies that create equity in health, well-being and opportunity.
Focus Areas
- Healthy Beginnings
- Healthy Youth
- Strong and Resilient Families
- Public Policy Advocacy
Caring for Colorado funds public policy advocacy at local and state levels to support efforts that improve health, well-being and opportunity for children, youth, and families in Colorado.
- Statewide
- Caring for Colorado Foundation funds statewide public policy advocacy efforts that: Improve access to high quality health care for children, youth, and families experiencing barriers to care.
- Support efforts to strengthen or expand public programs or benefits to help families prosper.
- Children, youth, and families must be a core component of an organization’s advocacy agenda, and the organization must explicitly work to create or improve policies that reduce economic, racial, and gender-based inequities.
- Local
- Caring for Colorado Foundation funds local policy advocacy efforts that respond to emergent or urgent issues, or capitalize on new opportunities to improve health, well-being and opportunity for children, youth, and their families.
- Youth-Led
- Caring for Colorado Foundation funds policy advocacy efforts that partner with young people to identify and respond to issues that affect youth health, well-being, and opportunity.
Grantmaking Guiding Principles
- Caring for Colorado roots the grantmaking program in the purpose of achieving equity, health and well-being for Colorado’s children and families. The grantmaking guiding principles are:
- Foundation centers the health and well-being of all children, youth and their families, and they prioritize resources and attention to children living in families with low incomes, children and youth of color, and children and youth who experience systemic injustice.
- Foundation centers the voice and perspective of children, youth, families and caregivers and support efforts that seek, integrate, and respond to their insights and solutions.
- Foundation centers organizations that are rooted in and trusted by the children, youth and communities they serve.
Eligibility Criteria
Caring for Colorado will consider applications from and awards to organizations who benefit Colorado and are:
- Charitable nonprofit organizations with tax-exempt classification from the Internal Revenue Service; or
- Tax-supported institutions including state and local governments and schools.
Ineligibility
Caring for Colorado does not fund:
- For-profit entities
- Annual appeals or membership drives
- Financial support for political candidates
- Scholarships
- Fee-based programming without a robust sliding scale
- Pregnancy resource centers
- Research (costs specifically associated with the research process such as design, investigation or analysis).
For more information, visit Caring for Colorado Foundation.