Season to Share 2006/2007 Grant Recipients

Children
The Adoption Exchange: $15,000
The Adoption Exchange served 321 Colorado children waiting for permanent familieslast year, 81 of whom were adopted.

Anchor Center for Blind Children: $40,000
Serving 423 children last year, Anchor Center is the only privately funded organization in Colorado whose goal is to provide the tools necessary for young children with blindness or visual impairments to develop to their fullest potential.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado: $35,000
This community mentoring agency provided 2,122 youth with support from caring adults last year, helping the young people avoid negative behaviors.

Boulder Day Nursery Association: $25,000
This high quality child care center provided scholarships worth almost $385,000 for its low-income clientele last year, while offering convenient, high quality loving childcare for Boulder county’s working poor.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver: $20,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver has 7,200 children and youth members who benefit from year-round programming at six facilities.

Colfax Community Network: $15,000
This agency’s mission is to provide children and families residing in low-income, transient housing (primarily motels) along Colfax Avenue with information, services and programs that will strengthen and improve family and community life.

Colorado Bright Beginnings: $25,000
This home visitation program offers parents of infants and toddlers high quality information around parenting, child and brain development, health issues and community resources.

The Conflict Center: $30,000
The Conflict Center’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 Kids, Inc.: $30,000
This mentoring agency connects Denver Public Schools students with counseling and a trained adult who acts as a stabilizing influence. Denver Kids maintains an 85 percent graduation rate among participants.

Families First: $30,000
This agency’s child abuse and neglect prevention services include parent support groups, parent education classes and a statewide Family Support Line.

Family Advocacy, Care, Education and Support (FACES): $30,000
The FACES Home Visitation Program provides services for the prevention and treatment of child abuse, neglect and family violence through therapeutic counseling, parenting education, case management, advocacy and support services.

Metro Denver Partners: $15,000
Metro Denver Partners provides at-risk youth with supportive role models/mentors and program services that will empower young people to make positive life choices.

Mile High Montessori: $50,000
Last year, Mile High Montessori provided high-quality, full-day child care for 945 Denver children. The Montessori education model promotes literacy and pro-social development.

Mount Saint Vincent: $35,000
Mount Saint Vincent provides residential treatment for abused and neglected children.  Their on-site school offers academic and emotional support to its students.

Parenting Place: $25,000
Boulder’s Parenting Place strives to relieve isolation, reduce the stress of parenting and prevent child abuse and neglect by providing outreach as well as a place where families can receive support, education, and develop a sense of community.

Project PAVE: $15,000
Project PAVE’s mission is to empower youth and end the cycle of relationship violence. They provided 3,214 children and families with their array of services last year.

Sewall Child Development Center: $25,000
This agency is dedicated to meeting the needs of and enhancing opportunities for young children with special needs associated with disabilities, developmental delays and economic disadvantages.

Tennyson Center for Children: $25,000
Tennyson Center is the largest residential and day treatment facility in the Rocky Mountain region for abused and neglected children ages five through 14.

Tiny Tim Center: $20,000
This Longmont preschool served 387 children last year, half of whom have special needs.  Tiny Tim’s outreach program provides physical, speech and occupational therapy for children from birth to age 12, one-third of whom are Medicaid eligible.

Warren Village: $40,000
The Learning Center at Warren Village provides high-quality early childhood education for the children of low-income, single parents who are moving from homelessness to permanent housing.

Homeless
ACS Community L.I.F.T.: $20,000
This agency’s FamilyCare Program provides families in crisis with emergency food, temporary housing, utility assistance and other supportive services to allow them to remain or become self-sufficient. Their food bank is the third largest in the state.

Boulder Shelter for the Homeless: $30,000
Boulder Shelter for the Homeless provides safe shelter, food, support services and an avenue to self-sufficiency for homeless individuals. They offer warm meals and beds to 1,000 clients each year.

Broadway Assistance Center: $20,000
Each month, the Broadway Assistance Center provides 8,000 units of emergency services, including food, clothing, medical care, and rent and utility assistance to vulnerable residents of Baker neighborhood.

Carriage House Homeless Community Center: $10,000
This daytime shelter offers Boulder’s homeless population hot meals, showers, case management, and employment services. They see an average of 55 clients daily and served over 1,400 clients last year.

Catholic Charities/Samaritan House: $50,000
Catholic Charities’ Samaritan House provides nearly 50 percent of housing for Denver’s homeless families and individuals. Last year, they served over 6,000 individuals in addition to providing 36,000 nights of shelter in their overflow rooms.

The Delores Project: $15,000
This agency provides safe, comfortable shelter and services to adult women who are homeless and with limited resources. Last year they housed approximately 400 women, providing 11,865 nights of shelter and 18,836 meals.

Emergency Family Assistance Association (EFAA): $35,000
EFAA provides assistance to families, seniors and people with disabilities living in Boulder and Broomfield Counties who are experiencing a short-term financial crisis and need help to become self-sufficient. Their Basic Needs Program served 3,000 families last year.

Family HomeStead: $35,000
This agency’s emergency and transitional housing programs allows families who are experiencing homelessness to stabilize and return to self-sufficiency. Last year they served 831 individuals in 232 families.

Family Tree: $25,000
Family Tree’s Women in Crisis Program is Jefferson County’s only shelter for battered women and their children. This agencie served more than 25,000 people last year.

Gateway Battered Women’s Services: $25,000
Gateway has provided safe shelter and supportive services to victims of domestic violence in Aurora and Arapahoe County since 1979.

The Gathering Place: $50,000
The Gathering Place is a day shelter for women and their children who are experiencing homelessness and provides a safe environment and intervention services for at least 250 people daily.

Growing Home: $10,000
This network of 32 faith organizations collaboratively houses and provides support services to 132 homeless families each year.

Inter-Church ARMS: $15,000
Inter-Church Arvada Resource for Ministry and Service’s (ARMS) Emergency Service Program provides rent/mortgage, utility, medical/dental and food aid to residents of northeast Jefferson County and northwest Adams County.

Jewish Family Service of Colorado: $15,000
Jewish Family Serviece’s Family Safety Net Program provides a food bank and emergency financial assistance to individuals and families experiencing hardship. Last year, JFS touched the lives of nearly 18,000 people

Parent Pathways:  $25,000
This agency’s Housing Services Program provides teen parents and their families with direct housing assistance, support services, life skills counseling and parenting education.

Parker Task Force: $5,000
This all-volunteer emergency services agency provided food and financial assistance to 332 families in crisis in Parker, Elizabeth and Franktown last year.

Sacred Heart House of Denver: $25,000
Sacred Heart House’s In-House Stabilization Program provided emergency housing and supportive services for 80 mothers with 134 children and 61 single women last year.

Safe Shelter of St. Vrain Valley: $15,000
This Longmont safehouse for battered women and their children served 664 people with shelter, meals, counseling, case management and other support services last year.

SafeHouse Denver: $30,000
SafeHouse is the only agency in Denver County that provides emergency shelter and bilingual non-residential counseling and advocacy services specifically for battered women and children.

St. Francis Center: $40,000
This homeless shelter offers safety, warmth, meals, showers, laundry, clothing, phones and other basic needs during the daytime hours when overnight shelters are closed.

Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence: $15,000
SPAN, Boulder’s domestic violence shelter and education agency, responded to 10,601 crisis calls, sheltered 297 women and children and counseled 1,349 people last year.

Sister Carmen Community Center: $10,000
This emergency services agency in Lafayette provides a food bank, rent/mortgage assistance, school supply collection and distribution, and clothing and household goods to more than 3,000 vulnerable people.

Special Transit: $20,000
Special Transit ensures access to safe shelter and health care for individuals who are homeless, low-income seniors and people with disabilities.

Stride: $25,000
Stride offers self-sufficiency training for families transitioning off of public assistance, transitional housing for homeless families and a program providing financial assistance for low-income children to participate in extracurricular activities.

Urban Peak: $50,000
Urban Peak Denver provides shelter, case management, education, employment and health services to more than 800 homeless and runaway youth last year.

Volunteers of America: $25,000
Volunteers of America’s Theodora House is a 27-bed overnight shelter for homeless, single women with chronic mental illness and no children in their custody. This program served approximately 400 women last year.

Women’s Crisis and Family Outreach Center: $25,000
This agency provides emergency shelter, support services and non-residential counseling for women and child victims of domestic violence in Castle Rock and the surrounding areas.

Hunger
Capitol Hill Community Services: $40,000
With the help of more than 200 volunteers (including students from three of Denver’s private schools), this agency serves 53,000 meals each year with one full- and two part-time employees.

Community Food Share: $45,000
Community Food Share is Boulder and Broomfield Counties major food bank. In addition to supplying food for 86 human service agencies that serve hungry individuals, they also offer several direct service programs.

COMPA Food Bank Ministry: $50,000
This food bank serves 170 hunger programs whose outreach provides for 49,000 people each week. COMPA’s mission is to assist individuals in reaching a given level of self-sufficiency and preventing homelessness by serving and providing food to local hunger-relief programs that distribute food to those in need in the Rocky Mountain Region.

Food Bank of the Rockies: $50,000
Food Bank of the Rockies is the larges distributor of food for those in need in the Rocky Mountain Region. They receive, transport, allocate and distribute 21.9 million pounds of food annually to more than 900 hunger-relief programs.

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. They served 1,400 clients 290,000 meals last year.

MEDICAL
The Children’s Hospital Foundation: $50,000
Children’s Hospital’s Child Health Clinic is a full-service general pediatric clinic that handles 18,000 patient visits per year for approximately 8,000 children, many of whom are uninsured or under-insured kids each year.

Clinica Campesina: $30,000
Clinica Campesina has one dental and three medical clinics that provide bilingual primary health care to almost 24,000 uninsured children and adults in eastern Boulder, Broomfield and western Adams counties.

Clinica Tepeyac: $30,000
Clinica Tepeyac’s purpose is to be a gateway to health for uninsured, primarily Latino residents of metro Denver. Nearly 10,000 people received culturally appropriate primary health care from this agency last year.

Commerce City Community Health Services: $30,000
This agency operates the oldest school-based health care center in Colorado. Their six school-based health clinics in Adams County serve 8,768 children with routine medical care.

Doctors Care: $35,000
Doctors Care provides access to quality primary and specialty outpatient and inpatient medical care to more than 3,500 medically uninsured children and adults in Douglas, Arapahoe and Elbert counties.

Inner City Health Center: $50,000
Inner City Health Center recorded 20,441 medical, dental and mental health visits last year, serving medically uninsured individuals and very low-income families in metro Denver and beyond.

Kids in Need of Dentistry (KIND): $20,000
KIND has been providing dental care to low-income children since 1912, with a mission to provide quality dental care to children of families with marginal income. Last year they provided 5,531 total patienct visits.

National Jewish Medical and Research Center: $50,000
The Kunsberg School for Chronically Ill Children on the National Jewish campus addresses the needs of children in kindergarten through eighth grade whose education is interrupted by chronic illness, such as asthma, sickle cell anemia and juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.

People’s Clinic: $25,000
People’s Clinic is the third largest provider of primary health care services in the city of Boulder. They provided comprehensive, culturally appropriate primary and preventative medical care services to nearly 9,000 Boulder County residents last year.

Saint Joseph Hospital Foundation: $25,000