The Newcomers Fund

The Newcomers Fund is sponsored by Rose Community Foundation. The Newcomers Fund provides grants to nonprofits that are meeting the vital needs of immigrants in the Greater Denver community, including health and mental health support. While not exclusively focused on peer-led recovery, mental health support for vulnerable populations is a component.

Newcomers Fund - Rose Community Foundation Supporting Our Immigrant Community’s Evolving Needs Established in December 2022, the Newcomers Fund provides grants to nonprofits that are meeting the vital needs of immigrants in our community.

With funds raised and administered by Rose Community Foundation, the Newcomers Fund is led by a steering committee that includes representatives from the City and County of Denver, the State of Colorado, The Denver Foundation, Latino Community Foundation of Colorado, and Mile High United Way. All dollars raised through the Newcomers Fund are deployed quickly and strategically to Colorado nonprofits providing essential services.

The Fund has received more than 5,000 donations from individuals, foundations and businesses, and has raised and distributed nearly $5 million to 6 0 organizations throughout Colorado. The Newcomers Fund will continue to respond to needs in the immigrant community amidst policy shifts at the federal level and threatening rhetoric targeting immigrants locally.

For those individuals and families who have made their home here in Colorado, there are continued needs that our community can rally together to help address. The Newcomers Fund has expanded its reach to respond to needs in the immigrant and refugee communities amidst continued policy shifts at the federal level.

Grantees of the Newcomers Fund are: Providing training, materials and outreach to help immigrants understand their rights in enforcement actions across the state. Expanding the infrastructure of a rapid-response hotline Supplying individuals in detention facilities and their families with information about their status, legal rights, visitation schedules and more.

Providing legal support and guidance, including deportation defense services, DACA renewals, and support for asylum requests. Support the Newcomers Fund Thank you for considering a gift to the Newcomers Fund. Support from individuals, families, corporations and foundations makes a real and positive difference to those who have been building their lives in a new place.

Every dollar received by the Fund is deployed directly and strategically to nonprofits in the Denver community.

To give via check, please mail to: Rose Community Foundation 4500 Cherry Creek Drive South, Suite 900 Include “Newcomers Fund” in the memo line Stock Transfer Instructions ACH/Wire Transfer of Cash Instructions The Newcomers Fund Steering Committee is currently prioritizing support for organizations that provide access to immigration legal services, know your rights trainings and family preparedness programming, narrative change on the topic of immigration, and continuity of supports for previously ORR-eligible refugee populations and other immigrant populations that have lost access to services.

The Fund has supported nonprofits mainly in the Denver metr o area , which serve a significant portion of new immigrants, and has also provided assistance to communities beyond Denver, spanning from Yampa Valley to Carbondale, and from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs. The work of those nonprofits has been important in meeting the needs of new arrivals and enabling them to settle elsewhere in the state.

Accompaniment and Sanctuary Coalition Colorado Springs American Friends Service Committee Aurora Economic Opportunity Coalition Capitol Heights Presbyterian Church Capitol Hill Community Services Catholic Charities and Community Services of the Archdiocese of Denver, Inc. Center for Immigrants and Immigration Services Centro Humanitario Para Los Trabajadores Colorado Changemakers Collective Colorado Hosting Asylum Network Colorado Immigrant Justice Fund Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC) Colorado Lawyers Committee Colorado Virtual Immigration Consultation Clinic Downtown Denver Islamic Center Eagle Valley Community Foundation East Colfax Community Collective First Mennonite Church Denver Florence Crittenton Services Focus Points Family Resource Center Jewish Family Service of Colorado Justice and Mercy Legal Aid Center Latina Safehouse Initiative Lupita’s Camino a la Esparanza Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains Project Protect Food Systems Workers Restoration Outreach Programs Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network Rocky Mountain Welcome Center San Luis Valley Immigrant Resource Center Tepeyac Community Health Center United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Voces Unidas de las Monta ñ as