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Strengthening Neighborhoods - The Denver Foundation Strengthening Neighborhoods A grantmaking program for community-led projects Strengthening Neighborhoods gives grants to support community-led projects, grassroots groups, and local nonprofits across Metro Denver. Built on the belief that neighbors know best what their neighborhoods need, our program invests in community-led ideas and leadership.
It’s funded by generous donors through donor-advised funds and direct gifts to its own endowment. What makes Strengthening Neighborhoods unique? Strengthening Neighborhoods 25th anniversary celebration event Philanthropy often outlines what it wants to fund and seeks nonprofits that can do that work.
Strengthening Neighborhoods takes a different approach. Residents have the best insight into how to improve their communities and how to leverage their many strengths, including their people, institutions, and public resources. Identifying the most pressing issues and what to fund comes from the community itself, and The Denver Foundation funds those ideas through the Strengthening Neighborhoods program.
What does Strengthening Neighborhoods support?
Since its inception, the Strengthening Neighborhoods program has funded projects led by local community members, including curbside recycling campaigns, worker-owned cooperatives like Community Language Coop , and campaigns to raise awareness of affordable housing solutions like resident-owned communities, where homeowners of mobile or manufactured homes form a nonprofit cooperative that owns and manages the land.
How can you support Strengthening Neighborhoods? Your gifts can make an immediate impact. Donors can support the Strengthening Neighborhoods Program through gifts from their donor-advised funds or a credit card gift right now .
A gift to the Strengthening Neighborhoods permanent endowment means your gift will support your community, forever. From pilot program to lasting support We created the Strengthening Neighborhoods grant program in 1996. After extensive feedback from local community members, the program sought to support the unique identity of each Denver neighborhood, which meant getting to know those folks and supporting their work on a personal level.
“Not only did the Strengthening Neighborhoods program help The Denver Foundation connect directly with community members, it connected Denver residents with each other across neighborhood lines,” Javier Alberto Soto, President & CEO.
In 2025, to celebrate The Denver Foundation’s 100th anniversary, we created the Strengthening Neighborhoods Endowment Fund to ensure long-term, consistent support for community-led projects and resident leadership across Metro Denver—today and for future generations.
“The Denver Foundation and Strengthening Neighborhoods played a huge role in influencing the types of things other philanthropic partners funded over the years,” Mike Kromrey, executive director of Together Colorado. Shifting philanthropy through trust and community leadership Cultivando was the first Strengthening Neighborhood’s grantee. At the time, it was a newly formed community group in Commerce City.
Instead of funding services, their first grant supported a listening project to map their community strengths. Cultivando’s success attracted additional funders, establishing this community-led model as a trusted approach to driving change throughout Colorado. Denver’s Montbello Community Strengthening Neighborhoods gave Montbello Organizing Committee (MOC) its first grant of $5,000 in 2014.
Investments through the Strengthening Neighborhoods Program and Community Grants Program, enabled MOC to leverage additional funding from many other foundations and sources, growing into an essential hub for Montbello residents. A Decent Home documentary The film is the first documentary made about mobile home parks, featuring the story of a three-year fight to save the Denver Meadows Mobile Home Park in Aurora.
Since 2015, we have worked in partnership with 9to5 Colorado, an organization that championed the Denver Meadows community through their fight for housing security. information@denverfoundation. org EIN: 84-6048381 | 501(c)(3) If you are human, leave this field blank.
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: 501(c)(3) organizations, groups of residents in low-income neighborhoods, and collaborative efforts among groups in the seven-county Metro Denver, Colorado, and beyond. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
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The Care Fund Grant is a funding opportunity from The Denver Foundation that supports 501(c)(3) nonprofits serving the seven-county Metro Denver area. The foundation prioritizes organizations aligned with its core values of community leadership and racial equity, funding work in economic opportunity, education, environment and climate, health and behavioral health, housing and homelessness, and youth well-being. Grants through the Community Grants Program range from $20,000 to $50,000. Eligible applicants include 501(c)(3) nonprofits and resident groups in low-income Colorado neighborhoods. A deadline of May 25, 2026 applies to the current cycle.
The Lauren Townsend Memorial Wildlife Fund is a grant from The Denver Foundation that funds 501(c)(3) nonprofits and fiscally sponsored organizations focused on animal welfare or wildlife preservation. Established by her family to honor her love for learning and animals, the fund awards grants ranging from $500 to $5,000, with a total annual pool of $15,000 to $20,000. Eligible organizations must have operating budgets of $250,000 or less. General operating expenses, salaries, and lobbying activities are not funded. The application deadline is June 15, 2026.
Community Grant Program is the signature funding strategy of The Denver Foundation, supporting nonprofits tackling pressing local issues and building a better Denver for the long term. Supported by The Fund for Denver, the Foundation's permanent endowment built by nearly 1,500 donors over 100 years, this program awards grants ranging from $20,000 to $50,000. Applications are open with a deadline of August 3, 2026. The program focuses on direct-to-people programming that fills opportunity gaps in the Denver community. Eligible applicants must meet the Foundation's stated requirements; prospective applicants should review the official guidelines for complete eligibility criteria.
The Fund for Women & Girls Grant Program is sponsored by The Foundation for Enhancing Communities (TFEC). The Fund for Women & Girls, an initiative of TFEC, makes grants to local nonprofit organizations in specific South Central PA counties. The grants support projects that advance the lives of women and girls by providing opportunities to address basic needs, develop economic self-sufficiency, and strengthen health and safety needs.
VGF grants will be used to develop and/or support community-based entities to recruit, manage, and support volunteers. CNCS seeks to fund effective approaches that expand volunteering, strengthen the capacity of volunteer connector organizations to recruit and retain skill-based volunteers, and develop strategies to use volunteers effectively to solve problems. Specifically, the VGF grants will support efforts that expand the capacity of volunteer connector organizations to recruit, manage, support and retain individuals to serve in high quality volunteer assignments.Applicants that receive funding under this Notice may directly carry out the activities supported under the award, or may carry out the activities by making sub-grants to community-based entities, supporting volunteer generation at these entities.). Funding Opportunity Number: AC-05-25-21. Assistance Listing: 94.021. Funding Instrument: G. Category: O. Award Amount: $6.1M total program funding.