Giving More Together
Season To Share 05/06Agency Descriptions by Category
CHILDREN
The Adoption Exchange: $20,000
The Adoption Exchange served 417 Colorado children waiting for permanent families, 149 of whom were adopted last year.
Boulder Day Nursery: $20,000
This agency provided scholarships worth more than $300,000 last year, while offering convenient, high quality, loving childcare for Boulder County's working poor.
Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver: $20,000
This organization is one of the largest providers of after-school and summer programs in the Denver area, serving more than 22,000 youth annually at the agency's six clubs.
Colorado Bright Beginnings: $25,000
Bright Beginnings' two central programs, Warm Welcome and Moving On, provide parents of children from birth to three years old with home visits and information on parenting, brain and 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 and applying skills to help people in diverse communities manage their everyday conflicts nonviolently.
Denver Public Schools Pupil Assistance Fund: $20,000
This program offers winter coats, clothing vouchers, eye exams, glasses and hygiene items to the 63 percent of DPS students who qualify for the free and reduced school lunch program.
Families First: $30,000
Families First offers parent support groups, parent education classes, and a statewide Family Support Hotline to aid in the prevention of child abuse and neglect.
Family Advocacy, Care, Education, Support: $30,000 FACES' Home Visitation Program provides therapeutic counseling, parenting education, case management, advocacy, and support services for the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect and family violence.
Girls, Inc.: $20,000
Girls Inc. offers innovative, educational programs that prepare girls ages six to 11 to succeed in school and create confident and successful futures - helping girls to be strong, smart, and bold.
Jewish Community Center: $10,000
The JCC's Early Childhood Center will use these funds to allow low-income children to attend their nationally accredited program that integrates special needs and typical children.
Mile High Montessori: $50,000
As Denver's largest provider of subsidized childcare, this agency 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
This organization's on-site school offers quality academic and emotional support for children who have been abused or neglected and have behavior issues.
National Sports Center for the Disabled: $20,000
NSCD's Sponsor An Athlete program ensures that low-income youth living with disabilities can participate in the agency's adaptive sports and therapeutic recreation programs.
Parent Pathways: $17,000
Parent Pathways' Infant/Toddler Learning Center, located in the Florence Crittendon School for teen mothers, provides high-quality childcare for the children of middle school and high school girls working toward their 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 receive support and education and develop a sense of community.
Ronald McDonald House: $15,000
This organization 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
Located in Longmont, the Tiny Tim Center serves 350 special needs and typical children each year with quality, caring early childhood education, as well as speech, physical, and occupational therapies.
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
The YWCA of Boulder County operates Children's Alley, the only drop-in, emergency or temporary child care program in Boulder County. They 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 fleeing violent situations in 2004.
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, weekly 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 living 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 collaboratively house and provide supportive services to homeless families in the north-metro area.
Interfaith Hospitality Network of Greater Denver: $25,000
This collaboration of 49 churches offers shelter, meals and support services for families experiencing homelessness.
Jeffco Action Center: $35,000
The Jeffco Action Center's programs include homeless shelters, food and clothing banks, utility and rent assistance, a health clinic, tenant/landlord counseling, and the Santa Shop, where low-income parents can buy low-cost or free holiday gifts for their children.
Jewish Family Service of Colorado: $15,000
JFS offers the Family Safety Net, a food bank and emergency services program for individuals and families experiencing financial difficulties.
Metro CareRing: $45,000
This organization's volunteers contribute 18,000 hours annually, allowing them to provide emergency food, utility assistance, personal care items, and referrals to community services to more than 10,000 households each year.
newgenesis: $20,000
This agency provides a therapeutic housing program that guides and encourages its residents to achieve financial stability, a commitment to their sobriety and permanent housing.
Sacred Heart House: $25,000
Sacred Heart House provided emergency housing and supportive services to 57 single women and 70 mothers with 119 children last year.
SafeHouse Denver: $35,000
SafeHouse is 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 of public assistance, housing for homeless families, and financial assistance allowing low-income children to participate in extracurricular activities.
Task Force of Douglas County: $25,000
This agency served 10,653 south-metro residents with basic needs, including food, clothing, and rent, transportation, and utility assistance.
Urban Peak: $50,000
Urban Peak offers shelter, case management, education, employment and health services to more than 800 homeless and runaway youth each year.
Women's Crisis and Family Outreach: $30,000
This crisis center offers emergency shelter, support services, and non-residential counseling for battered women in Castle Rock and the 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
This organization's 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, Community Food Share, distributed more than three 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 free of charge last year to agencies serving the hungry.
Food Bank of the Rockies: $50,000
This agency distributed nearly 11 million pounds of food to 600 hunger relief programs in metro Denver - enough to prepare more than 8.4 million meals.
Project Angel Heart: $50,000
Project Angel Heart provides home-delivered, nutritious 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 program offers nutrition education, cooking classes and budgeting help to 500 families annually in an effort to promote positive eating and cooking habits.
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 and reduce the risk of rejection in young cancer patients.
Clinica Campesina: $30,000
This agency operates three medical and one dental clinic in eastern Boulder, Broomfield and western Adams Counties that served almost 24,000 people last year.
Clinica Tepeyac: $30,000
Clinica Tepeyac provides low-cost health care in a respectful and culturally appropriate environment to west Denver's uninsured.
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless: $40,000
This agency's Season To Share funding supports the HOP (Health Outreach Program) Van, a mobile RV outfitted as a primary care health clinic to provide health care for Denver's homeless.
Commerce City Community Health Services: $30,000
This agency offers school- and community-based health clinics that provide primary care for Adams County's uninsured and low-income children and families.
Dental Aid: $40,000
Dental Aid operates full service, sliding fee scale dental clinics in Boulder, Longmont, Louisville and Lafayette.
Doctors Care: $35,000
Doctors Care provides uninsured children and adults in Arapahoe and Douglas Counties access to quality primary and specialty medical care through a collaboration of doctors who volunteer their time and expertise.
Howard Dental Center: $25,000
This organization is dedicated to providing compassionate, high quality dental care in a private setting for men, women, and children living with HIV/AIDS.
National Multiple Sclerosis Society: $25,000
This agency's Independent Living, Empowerment and Advocacy programs help financially needy clients with MS both bridge the gap between application for and reception of Medicare benefits, and remain living independently in their own homes.
Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Society: $25,000
This agency's 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
Rocky Mountain Youth's health clinics are operated in partnership with community organizations serving youth. They provide accessible, high quality 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 their families.
