Daniels Fund grants $8.2 million in Colorado
Written on September 2, 2010
The Daniels Fund made $8.2 million in grants to Colorado nonprofits in the latest quarter, the Denver foundation announced Friday.
The Colorado grants are among $11 million it distributed across the region and nationally.
Major Colorado recipients in the latest funding round include Bayaud Enterprises; Boy Scouts of America, Denver Area Council; Cerebral Palsy of Colorado; Colorado Children’s Campaign; Colorado Drug Endangered Children; Compa Food Ministries; Denver School of Science and Technology; Emergency Family Assistance Association; Goodwill Industries; Junior Achievement – Rocky Mountain; Seeds of Hope; and West Denver Prep Charter School.
"Nonprofit organizations are stung twice by our unsettled economy — demand for their services surges at the same time resources and donations dry up," Linda Childears, president and CEO of the Daniels Fund, said in a statement high quality business cards. "That awareness drives our continued support of the organizations that do so much for the most vulnerable in our communities."
The Daniels Fund (danielsfund.org) was created by the late cable magnate Bill Daniels. Daniels directed that the fund focus on several key areas in its giving: aging, alcoholism and substance abuse, amateur sports, disabilities, education, the homeless and disadvantaged, and youth development.
About two-thirds of its grants go to Colorado-based programs; the rest go mostly to other Rocky Mountain states.
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