Champion Health Equity

Engage residents who have been historically left out of Denver's participatory budgeting process to organize and advocate for more equitable investment in the residents' neighborhoods.

Support CMP's work to advance equity in Colorado's local news ecosystem, in three specific grantmaking areas: the Advancing Equity in Local News Grant Program, the Colorado Watchdog Fund and support of the Colorado News Collaborative (COLab), including support of the Equity Reporting Fellowship.

Establish and grow a reproductive and public health outreach and advocacy program in Northern Colorado that will unite PPRM Promotores (Community Health Workers), organizers, partners, students and community members in expanding reproductive health access through community-centered outreach, engagement, organizing and policy advocacy, with a focus on engaging historically marginalized communities.

Developing and building organizational capacity and a statewide coalition to advance policy changes to end wealth-based pretrial detention in Colorado and other legal system reforms.

Organize neighbors for collective land, housing, and health stewardship in Globeville Elyria-Swansea so impacted community members can achieve agency over reparative, racial justice-centered solutions.

Address housing instability as a harbinger of health disparities among Black, Latinx & low-income communities of color by harnessing the power of land to work for community benefit through community mobilization of affected populations to advocate for policy reform that removes unnecessary, avoidable, unfair, unjust or systemically-caused barriers to affordable, accessible and safe housing.

Develop and strengthen long-term community resilience and organizing capacity by working with southwest Adams County communities to address the racial and social inequities that exist for communities of color and those living in poverty.

Build the power of working-class Latinx immigrants, youth, women and families in Southwest Denver and advance health equity and racial justice in Denver Public Schools.

Support increased voter engagement in the Latino community by bringing digital messaging through robust voter engagement and digital media strategies.

Focus on the implementation of the new strategic plan, which seeks to reprioritize building local power, organizing through a transformative model and building relationships with diverse immigrant communities.