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Council on Foundations 2021 grantmaker salary and benefits survey deadline approaching

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Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Report on Colorado's essential workers: COVID-19 impact on Latinos and immigrants

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Monday, March 29, 2021

United Philanthropy Forum releases report: Journey Toward Racial Equity

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Monday, March 15, 2021

Grant and Social Media High School Intern Opportunity

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Tuesday, March 09, 2021

Bonfils-Stanton Foundation announces new board leadership

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Bonfils-Stanton Foundation

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Monday, February 22, 2021

The Denver Foundations Black Resilience in Colorado Fund grant cycle opens January 19th

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https://www.denverfoundation.org/

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Monday, January 11, 2021

Report on indigenous community leadership in response to COVID-19

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Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Denver’s COVID-19 Arts & Culture Relief Fund gets ready for a second round of emergency funding

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Monday, December 21, 2020

CARES Act Emergency Grants Funding

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Monday, November 30, 2020

As our community continues with the health and economic implications of the COVID-19 crisis, nonprofits and small business throughout Jefferson County have sought to meet the sudden and emergency needs of our community.

COPIC Medical Foundation Accepting Proposals for 2021

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COPIC Medical Foundation

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Monday, November 16, 2020

The COPIC Medical Foundation has kicked off its new strategic responsive grantmaking approach. Beginning in 2020, the COPIC Medical Foundation will move away from a process structured around open submission grant cycles.

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Latino Community Foundation of Colorado hosts Our Story Forum series for Hispanic and Latino heritage month

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

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Taking place virtually across the four weeks of Hispanic and Latino heritage month (mid-September to mid-October), this family-friendly and bilingual event will bring together Latino Coloradans from across the state to learn and connect around this year’s core theme: Collective Power.

Each week the series will build on one another and will feature an expert presentation on one of our four topics: knowledge, identity, leadership, and action. Each part of the series will also be followed by a live facilitated interactive discussion that will allow participants to engage directly with series speakers.

The 8th annual Forum will take place virtually on Wednesdays at 7PM from September 22 through October 13 with each session focusing on a different topic: knowledge, identity, leadership, and action, and featuring amazing local and national Latino leaders.

Part 1: Conocimiento: Connection to our Past, Present, and Future, Wednesday, September 22

Part 2: ¿Quiénes Somos?: Our Collective Identity, Wednesday, September 29

Part 3: Nuestras Historias: Leading Through our Lived Experiences, Wednesday, October 6

Part 4: La Lucha: Liberated Action, Wednesday, October 13

The four-part series is free to attend. Register here

#Forum2021 #OurStoryForumSeries #CollectivePowerCO

Miss the Colorado Communities of Color Loan Fund briefing? Watch the recording here.

Friday, September 3, 2021

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This recorded webinar took place last Monday and features a presentation from Latino Community Foundation of Colorado staff on the Colorado Communities of Color Loan Fund.

The Colorado Communities of Color Loan Fund is a five-year revolving loan fund providing program related investments (PRIs) to nonprofits of color in Colorado.

Watch the recording here.

During Black Philanthropy Month, contributions to the Black Resilience in Colorado (BRIC) Fund from individual donors will be matched

Tuesday, August 24, 2021

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August is Black Philanthropy Month:
During Black Philanthropy Month, contributions to the Black Resilience in Colorado (BRIC) Fund from individual
donors will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to a total of $50,000. Donate here.

BRIC will also host a virtual celebration this Friday (8/27) to recognize the contributions of Colorado's Black philanthropists as well as toast to celebrate the anniversary of the BRIC Fund! The virtual celebration will be hosted by Tina Walls & Jonathan Cunningham. Register here.

Updated: Limited spots left for Advancing Racial Equity in Grantmaking Workshop

Monday, August 16, 2021

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Philanthropy Colorado will host a highly interactive, all-day virtual training in partnership with ABFE: A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities. (Please note that a half-day version of this training will be offered for foundation trustees/funder board members later this fall.)

Led by ABFE’s Anthony Simmons , Kellye McKenzie and Kyumon Murrell workshop participants will:

Establish a shared language, learn and discuss basic concepts for talking about race productively and advancing racial equity.
Recognize the value of a structural analysis around inequities, including the drivers of poor and disparate outcomes in Black communities and other communities of color;
Have a greater understanding of Responsive Philanthropy in Black Communities (RPBC) framework and three specific tools to advance grantmaking;
Get answers to immediate questions and take part in an interactive learning experience.

The training is being offered this year based on widespread member interest in additional equity training. We recognize this is a considerable commitment and ask participants to commit to attend the entire time. Breaks will be built into the session.

Early-bird registration is available through August, register here.

'Moment of a Lifetime': Reposting our blog post from 11 years ago

Wednesday, August 4, 2021

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Originally posted on our old website in August 2010

By Joanne Kelley

I found a FedEx box waiting on my doorstep when I returned home from my summer vacation last month. In it: a single test tube with two cotton swabs. My younger brother Tom had just been diagnosed with a rare condition that required an urgent bone marrow transplant. His doctors told him that a sibling match would give him his best chance for survival. My two other brothers and I, spread out across the country, sent back our tissue samples and waited.

Tom towered over me by the time we were teenagers, but I could only picture him now as my little brother. I pulled out old photos of us as kids to show my own children while we waited for news.

A week later my brother got the call. “Well, your brothers aren’t a match, but we think your sister is.” I boarded a flight to New York City for more tests at Sloan-Kettering hospital.

Two weeks would pass before I returned to Manhattan so that doctors could remove some of my bone marrow cells and transfer them to Tom. He, meanwhile, checked into the hospital and passed the time in relative isolation to prepare for the transplant through chemotherapy.

I can’t say I knew what to expect once my part of the procedure was over and the anesthesia began to wear off. I got in a wheelchair and put on a face mask, gloves and special clothing so I could visit my brother in his hospital room.

My brother published this picture of us on his blog about his “summer odyssey at Sloan-Kettering." The title of his update on transplant day was simply, “Wow.” The caption on this photo: “Moment of a lifetime.”

As tears filled his eyes, my brother pointed to a bag of fluid hanging from his IV “tree”. It was a sight I won’t forget — my bone marrow cells slowing moving drop by drop, through a tube and into him.

He thanked me. And there was really only one way to respond – with gratitude, for being able to help out and give our family hope. Back at you brother. Thank you.

I’m grateful to be able to work with people who commit themselves every day to making a difference in the lives of others. Not only the funders, but the many nonprofits whose work they support. And the many people who donate to causes every day.

Philanthropy strikes me as intensely personal and tough to pin down with a simple definition. I’m hoping we can start telling more personal stories to help express the meaning of the word, which can be broadly defined as people demonstrating compassion for others.

I stumbled across a video recently on the website of our colleagues at the Minnesota Council on Foundations. It summed up what I hear so often from those who make a donation in hopes of making a difference in a community or a life. These are the sound bites that resonated with me: “The more you give, the more you get,” “People don’t know the joy,” and “I’m such a different person than I was.”

We gathered up a handful of stories about the reach and impact of Colorado philanthropy in a report and a short documentary this year. But in this age of social media, we know we can do far more to spread the word and inspire others to come together and make a difference.

Do you have a story to share? We’d like to hear from you.

Joanne Kelley is the CEO of Philanthropy Colorado. Her brother is alive and well 11 years later and they'll be celebrating the bone marrow transplant anniversary tonight on a videocall between New York and Colorado.

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