The Groundwork for Funding
We believe keeping equity at the heart of our work will lead Coloradans to better health. While there are countless drivers of health, racial injustice is the leading driver of health inequity for communities of color living on low income. That’s why we prioritize Coloradans of color and address the deepest, most historically entrenched inequities that affect health based on a person’s socioeconomic status, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, country of origin and religion.
Our work, and that which we expect of our partners, is rooted in three cornerstones:
- Serve Coloradans who have less power, privilege and income, and prioritize Coloradans of color;
- Do everything with the intention to create health equity; and
- Be informed by the community and those we exist to serve.
Funding Types
All applications for Invitation-Only Funding, Funding Opportunities and Rolling Funding must meet detailed criteria, outlined in the links below.
The Foundation also invests in communities through impact investments and sponsorships.
Our Housing Affordability strategy provides funding to advance housing justice across the state, though funding is by invitation only. We are interested in exploring projects that have:
1) Foundation for community-driven/community-led actions;
2) Projects that maintain or promote enduring housing stability; and
3) Projects that explicitly advance racial justice and health equity.
Timing Considerations:
- Grant Requests: The timeline for grant project exploration within this domain ranges from three to six months to receive a decision.
- Impact Investing Partnership Requests: Includes low-interest loans, non-cash loan guarantees, and other flexible forms of capital to support innovative and/or proof of concept projects that meet the Foundation’s core affordable housing programmatic goals. The partnership development phase varies in timeline while the underwriting phase usually take 8-12 weeks once initiated.
Connecting with the Colorado Health Foundation Housing Strategy Team:
If you have a housing project you feel meets these criteria, please reach out:
- Tracey Stewart (Statewide Strategy Lead)
- Sean Dollard (Denver metro-region/Northwest, West Colorado)
- Nikte Contreras (Northeast Colorado)
- Camila Lara (Southwest Colorado)
Si necesita acceder la solicitud de fondos en español, por favor contáctenos a [email protected].
We accept applications for our Funding Opportunities several times a year. The next two Funding Opportunity cycles are listed below.
Oct. 15, 2023 Grant Deadline
- Advancing Advocacy and Justice with Communities of Color
- Building a Pipeline of Primary Care Providers to Serve Diverse Communities
Feb. 15, 2024 Grant Deadline
- Building a Pipeline of Primary Care Providers to Serve Diverse Communities
- Capital Infrastructure - Increasing Access to Care for Coloradans of Color
- Equitable Community-Designed Outdoor Spaces
- Supporting Coloradans in Recovery through Nonclinical Programs
- Supporting Holistic, Culturally Responsive and Youth- Driven Physical Well-being
We accept applications for our Rolling Funding on a rolling basis. There is no deadline associated with the following:
Before You Apply
We encourage you to follow these key steps before submitting an application:
- View our available funding and applicant info webinars.
- View our “Before You Apply” page.
- Connect with your program officer or by email at [email protected].
- Create an account in our grants portal at least a week in advance of submitting a grant application.
