Conduct Community Food Assessments and design implementation plans around increasing healthy food and food assistance access for the region?s geographically isolated residents, with special emphasis on low Native, elderly, Latinx and youth populations as a means of addressing health inequities including obesity and mental health.
This proposal both supports a capital acquisition of property and strategic investment in programs to strengthen long-term sustainability.
Implement youth-led community organizing that enables collective power, shifts resources and allows youth to co-govern their own communities equitably for generations to come. Empower youth to take a central role in researching, designing and implementing policies and practices in partnership with their peers and supportive adults.
Address health disparities and increase access to culturally competent heath services regardless of income or immigration status through cross-sector collaboration, community organizing, narrative work, and advocacy efforts.
Strengthen organizational capacity, expand community capacity, and strengthen data systems and communications. This will be achieved through: Community-led Grantmaking focused on funding community initiated solutions and systems change work and the Giving Project, a transformative leadership development program that creates a pipeline of diverse leaders with a health equity lens who mobilize their networks to support social justice.
Deepen CIRC's leadership building efforts in five regions of Colorado by launching a 3-year Organizing Fellow Initiative for our Mountain, Western Slope, Southern, Northern, and Denver regions to assist the regional organizers in their existing efforts. Fellows will contribute to the implementation of a Leadership Development Curriculum and provide resources to members that will take their work to the next level.
Provide culturally relevant technical assistance and education to women-led/femme-identifying entrepreneurs and small businesses in rural SW Colorado through the Rural Women-Led Business Fund. Programming will help increase women?s access to funding and other related supports. The Rural Women-Led Business Fund will have a focus on serving women of color, specifically Hispanic women who reside in two of the Foundation?s locally-focused communities.
Increase the number of ROCs in the State of Colorado and support the growth and expansion of Thistles operating capacity. Thistle ROC will use this investment to hire new staff and increase investment in travel, training and collaboration with other partners in the state.
Increase the number of Coloradans who can access affordable, nutritious food, and food assistance through public programs and community-based organizations. The SCFEC coalition will raise the voice of and empower residents in creating a community-driven plan to increase food access for those with the highest risk of food insecurity.
The mission of Sistahbiz Global Network is to help Black women entrepreneurs build profitable, scalable enterprises. Sistahbiz Global Network currently operates as the sole line of programs of the Foundation for Black Entrepreneurship (FBE). Sistahbiz Global Network is the main public-facing brand of the FBE and its target market is Black women entrepreneurs in Colorado and the mountain region.
