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Adams County District 14 - STARS Early Learning Center
STARS Early Learning Center is a preschool center in Adams 14 School District.  We offer full and part day preschool with wrap-around quality care for 3-5 year olds.
Alternatives to Family Violence
Provides shelter for victims of domestic violence; counseling for adults, adolescents and child victims. 24-hour crisis line in English and Spanish.
American Red Cross Mile High Chapter
A humanitarian organization, led by volunteers, which provides relief to victims of disasters and helps people prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies.
Annunciation School
Serves parents and children by providing programs in conflict management, life skills and participation in the arts.
Anti-Defamation League
Fighting bigotry, securing religious freedom, justice and fair treatment for all, and fostering safer, more inclusive schools through ADL's No Place for Hate® Campaign.
Arapahoe County Early Childhood Council
A collaborative providing high quality early education, health, mental health and family support programs and services for young children and their families in Arapahoe County.
Asian Pacific Development Center
Provides behavioral health care services, community education, health promotion, youth programs, multi-cultural interpretation and translation.
Aurora Warms the Night (AWTN)
AWTN preserves the life, health and stability of Aurora's homeless persons and supports their self-sufficiency by providing cold weather shelter and referrals to supportive services.

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Bal Swan Children's Center
Early intervention preschool that provides full therapy services for children with disabilities birth through six years old. Classes are fully inclusive with non-disabled children.
Bayaud Enterprises
Constituents: Disabled, Homeless, Low-Income and Disadvantaged. Services: Skills Training, Resource Navigation/Acquisition, Living-Wage Job Placement. Impact: Enhanced Economic Self-Sufficiency / Quality of Life.
Bennie E. Goodwin After School Academic Program
The Bennie E. Goodwin After School Academic Program provides intensive skill-building assistance to students in 1st - 8th grades who are performing below grade level in reading or math.
Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Colorado
Supports quality one-to-one mentoring relationships between volunteer mentors and youth, ages 7-17. These mentoring relationships help youth to overcome challenges and reach their full potential.
Boy Scouts of America, Denver Area Council
Provides education, fun and adventure for boys and girls ages 7-20 while teaching Character, Leadership and Career Exploration. Focusing on the responsibilities of participating citizenship.
Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver
Provides urban youth ages 6-18 a safe place to improve their lives through education, technology, the arts, sports/ fitness, leadership and social activities.
Boys Hope Girls Hope
Provides family-like homes, opportunities and education through college for academically capable, motivated children-in-need to become men and women for others.
Bridge Project, The
Provides educational opportunities for children living in Denver's public housing neighborhoods so that they graduate from high school and attend college or learn a trade.
Byrne Urban Scholars
Byrne Urban Scholars provides a unique, multi-faceted combination of services that promotes academic achievement among youth who are most likely to experience school failure and dropout.

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Catholic Charities and Community Services of the Archdiocese of Denver
Provides shelter for homeless,basic needs for vulnerable families and individuals, counseling, child welfare, support for high-risk youth and frail elderly with non-discriminatory safety-net services.
Center for Work Education and Employment
CWEE's 28 year job readiness program helps low-income single families transition from welfare to work by way of preparing for, finding, and keeping sustainable employment.
Centro Humanitario para Los Trabajadores
Provides low income day laborers with workforce and leadership development programs to promote self-sufficiency and economic justice.
Centro San Juan Diego
Provides multiple adult education and family support services aimed at building the ability of Hispanics to achieve economic success and social well-being.
Cerebral Palsy of Colorado
Programs that create opportunities through education, employment and statewide support efforts that impact systemic and life changes for individuals and families facing disabilities or challenges.
Children's Outreach Project
Providing an integrated, quality, early childhood education to low-income children with typical, accelerated and developmentally delayed abilities with preschool programs and therapeutic services.
City of Aurora - COMPASS
The Coalition of Many Providing After School Success (COMPASS) provides academic and enrichment activities to youth of seven low-income schools in north Aurora.
Clayton Early Learning Institute
Combines direct service with research, evaluation, and workforce development ensuring that children, especially those with limited opportunities, are prepared for success in school and society.
College Summit
College Summit’s mission is to increase college-enrollment rates of disadvantaged youth by equipping high schools with tools and support to build a college-going culture.
Colorado AIDS Project
Offers HIV/AIDS support services, food, housing, substance abuse and mental health counseling, case management, transportation, employment assistance and education on awareness and prevention of HIV.
Colorado Bright Beginnings
Colorado Bright Beginnings provides parenting education and support programs at no cost to any parent/caregiver in Colorado with children, prenatal to three years of age.
Colorado Children's Campaign
Nonprofit, nonpartisan, data-based advocacy organization focused on early childhood development, K-12 education, child and family health and fiscal reform.
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless
Works toward prevention/elimination of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for homeless and at-risk individuals, children and families in Colorado.
Colorado I Have A Dream Foundation
Offers comprehensive dropout prevention program to groups of at-risk Denver youth for 10-year period leading up to high school graduation and post-secondary scholarships.
Colorado Legal Services
Provides legal advice, representation and services to low-income persons and the elderly throughout the State of Colorado in civil actions or special proceedings.
Colorado Youth at Risk
Connect – Mentor - Transform. Connecting struggling 9th grade students with adult mentors who serve as coaches. Creating empowered futures, impacting graduation. Transforming lives and the community.
Colorado Youth for a Change
Colorado Youth for a Change is solving Colorado’s dropout crisis through the implementation of programs and policies based on national research and local data analysis.
Community Outreach Service Center
Facility for food bank, meals, clothing, bus passes, tokens for job search, day camp, and conflict management. Resources for homeless, alcohol, drug abuse counseling, and budget management.
The Council and Comitis Family Services
Provides substance abuse services including 24-hour hotline, licensed outpatient substance abuse and mental health treatment, prevention, education, community referrals, school-based and youth-focused programs.

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Denver Asset Building Coalition
Denver Asset Building Coalition, an antipoverty resource and advocacy organization providing free tax related financial services and workshops enabling low-income families to achieve financial self-sufficiency.
Denver Children's Home
Provides a therapeutic, safe place for emotionally distressed children, adolescents and their families to heal and grow.
Denver Indian Center
Located in Denver, the center provides youth programming, emergency services, workforce training, senior programs, and early childhood education to Colorado's American Indian communities.
Denver Inner City Parish
A multi-generational community center that provides education and human services to the low-income, primarily Latino, community of metro Denver.
Denver Kids
Educational counseling and mentoring program that helps at-risk students in DPS complete high school, pursue post-secondary options and become contributing members of the community.
Denver Rescue Mission
The Denver Rescue Mission serves the needs of poor and homeless men, women and children through emergency services, rehabilitation, transitional and permanent housing, and community outreach.
Disability Center for Independent Living
Assists people with disabilities in choices for independence by providing: education, advocacy, skills and mobility training, and peer support.
Douglas / Elbert Task Force
The Douglas/Elbert Task Force, a human service organization, assists Douglas & Elbert County residents in serious economic need, at risk of homelessness, or in crisis.

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Early Childhood Partnership of Adams County
A local collaboration working to increase child school readiness and well-being through partnerships, public engagement and implementing projects to bridge identified community gaps.
Early Excellence
Promotes and offers high-quality educational services to young children and provides job-training and job development to help Colorado families achieve self-sufficiency.
Escuela Tlatelolco Centro de Estudios
Escuela Tlatelolco is a community-based private school developed to provide Latino/ Chicano students an education that focuses on academic proficiency and instills cultural pride.

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Family HomeStead
Provides emergency and transitional housing and supportive case management to homeless families with children.
Family Star
Family Star provides a high quality early childhood Montessori education program and support services to Denver’s low-income families.
Family Tree
Helps people overcome child abuse, domestic violence and homelessness to become safe, strong and self-reliant through a continuum of client-centered, culturally-sensitive services.
Food Bank of the Rockies
Our mission is to “end hunger by procuring / distributing food and essentials to the hungry through partner agencies in Northern Colorado (including Western Slope) and Wyoming.”
Friends for Youth
Faith-based, volunteer mentoring program serving youth 10-18 years old who are involved in juvenile justice/child welfare sytems in Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties.
Friends of the Haven
Supporting the Haven where pregnant women and and their infant children recover from addictions, deliver drug-free infants and become self-sufficient, productive members of the community.

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Gateway Battered Women's Services
Since 1979, Gateway has provided a 24-hour crisis line, emergency shelter, counseling and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence who live in Arapahoe County.
Girl Scouts of Colorado
Builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place, serving 33,000 girls ages 5-17 annually.
Girls Incorporated of Metro Denver
Inspiring all girls to be strong, smart and bold through after-school and summer programs, outreach, and health and sexuality programming.
Goodwill Industries of Denver
Goodwill Industries of Denver reverses the cycle of poverty for at-risk youth, struggling families and individuals with disabilities through career development and skills training.

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HOPE Center
Provides early childhood education and support services for at-risk and gifted children and vocational training for developmentally disabled adults.

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Interfaith Hospitality Network of Greater Denver
Provides homeless families with shelter, meals, case management, Life Skills classes including budgeting, job readiness, job retention, nutrition, healthy relationships, and tenant rights and responsibilities.
Invest in Kids
Invest in Kids' mission is to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable young children and families throughout Colorado through research-based, proven programs.

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Jeffco Public Schools - Family Literacy
Jeffco HIPPY empowers parents as primary educators of their children and fosters parent involvement in school and community life maximizing successful, early school experiences.
Jewish Family Service of Colorado
55+ programs for people in need including elderly, families, youth, refugees and disabled. Services are provided regardless of faith, race, sexual orientation, or economic status.

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The Kempe Foundation
Kempe supports direct clinical services, training, research, public awareness and education, advocacy and consultation programs for the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect.
KIPP Colorado Schools
KIPP's mission is to equip underserved students with the knowledge, academic skills, and character traits necessary to succeed in college and the competitive world beyond.

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Labor's Community Agency
Helps people in crisis overcome problems related to employment, finances, food, housing, marital difficulties, addictions, youth and senior issues.
Latin American Research and Service Agency (LARASA)
Develops culturally-competent programs and strategies. Focus areas include: education, health, capacity-building, and the improvement of public policies that impact Colorado’s Latino community.
Legal Center for People with Disabilities and Older People,The
Protects human and civil rights of adults and children in education, housing, rehabilitation for employment, voting, and abuse or neglect in residential or long-term care.
Lutheran Family Services of Colorado
Services: adoption, birth parent counseling, foster care, parent education, refugee/asylee services, disaster preparedness, geriatric care management for older adults, and family immigration legal services.

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Mental Health America of Colorado
Provides free mental health education and advocacy to the community. Also coordinates pro bono services for low-income, at-risk youth and adults.
Metro Denver Partners
Provides support to at-risk youth through mentoring, tutoring and gang intervention. Strengthening families and communities by encouraging youth to make better academic and life decisions.
Metro Volunteers
Metro Volunteers mobilizes and cultivates volunteers and works to ensure volunteers are recognized as a critical resource in addressing societal needs in the community.
Mi Casa Resource Center
Advancing the economic success of Latino and low-income families through career, business, youth and family development strategies.
Mile High Montessori Early Learning Centers
Provides comprehensive early childhood education and care to low-income children from infancy to 5 years using a modified Montessori approach to learning.
Mile High Youth Corps
Mile High Youth Corps (MHYC) helps urban youth make a difference in themselves and their community through meaningful service opportunities and educational experiences.
Mount Saint Vincent Home
A home and school serving abused, neglected or mentally ill girls and boys. We provide for their emotional, physical, educational and mental health needs.
Mountain Resource Center
Our "neighbors helping neighbors" mission provides crisis assistance, pediatric health clinic, parenting/early childhood classes, workforce center, and domestic violence services to the mountain communities.

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Northeast Denver Housing Center
Serves the affordable housing needs of underserved households from homeless to homeownership through counseling, educational services and development of housing units.
Northeast Women's Center / Flagship Help Center
Provides employment and training services to unemployed, under-employed,and low-income individuals who reside primarily in Northeast Denver, including Montbello and Green Valley Ranch.

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Open Door Youth Gang Alternatives
Works to eliminate street gang violence through outreach, public awareness, violence prevention, and one-on-one support.

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Parent Pathways
Provides academic, parenting, healthcare, career readiness, and life-skills training to high risk pregnant and parenting teens and best practice developmental childcare to their children.
Providence Network
Urban, faith-based, transformational housing organization that helps impoverished individuals and families heal from addictions, abuse and homelessness to become self-sufficient, productive members of the community.

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Qualistar Early Learning
Qualistar Early Learning works to improve the quality of Colorado’s early care and education programs and helps parents find and choose high quality child care.

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Reach Out and Read Colorado
Reach Out and Read trains doctors to advise parents about the importance of reading and give books to children at checkups 6 months -5 years.
Rocky Mountain Children's Law Center
Saves the lives of Colorado’s abused and neglected children through zealous legal advocacy, healing intervention programs, and public policy reform.
Rocky Mountain MicroFinance Institute
Through learning, lending, and coaching, RMMFI grows community entrepreneurs who build businesses to advance along the pathway to self sufficiency and self worth.

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SafeHouse Denver
Provides shelter, counseling and advocacy services to women, children and youth experiencing domestic violence through 24-hour crisis line, shelter and non-residential center.
Salvation Army, The
Provides disadvantaged individuals, families, youth and the elderly with outreach programs and services to help address the physical, mental and spiritual parts of their lives.
Senior Hub, The
Improves the lives of older adults through meals-on­-wheels, respite and in-home services, information, counseling, emergency services, adult day services, and volunteer programs.
Senior Support Services
Only day center in Denver area that caters to the needs of hungry and homeless seniors. Clients get meals, government benefits, housing and much more.
Seniors Inc.
Our mission is to help seniors remain independent in their own homes and enrich the quality of life as they age.
Seniors' Resource Center
Providing community-based support for our senior parents, spouses, and loved ones. Includes; transportation, in-home care, adult day care, employment, and other programs to older persons.
Servicios de la Raza
Offers comprehensive and culturally responsive human services primarily, but not limited, to the Latino communities of Greater Metropolitan Denver.
Sewall Child Development Center
Provides preschool and other educational and therapeutic programs for young children (birth-age 5) with special needs associated with development delays, disabilities, and economic disadvantages.
Sheridan School District No. 2 - S.O.A.R.
The Sheridan School District is passionately committed to providing high-quality post secondary options to ALL Sheridan students through exceptional instruction and purposeful enrichment opportunities.
Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning
Spring Entrepreneurial Development Services (SEDS) provides economic (financial) services to low to moderate income clients and promotes opportunities for economic self-sufficiency.
St. Elizabeth's School
St. Elizabeth's School is an outstanding private, Episcopal school, enrolling an economically inclusive community that offers outstanding academics with a focus on music and the arts.
St. Francis Center
Provides day services for Denver’s homeless: mail, showers, clothing, employment, telephones, healthcare, social services; helping people transition to permanent, low-income housing with case management.
Summer Scholars
We help narrow the educational achievement gap by equipping low-income, academically struggling students and their parents with skills necessary to attain academic and personal success.

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Tennyson Center for Children
Tennyson Center, a leader in the care, treatment and education of abused, neglected and at-risk youth, serves over 200 children and 1,500 family members annually.

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University of Northern Colorado Foundation - Center for Urban Education
UNC’s Center for Urban Education is an innovative teacher preparation program that combines traditional education with rich apprentice experience while preparing teachers for urban classrooms.
Urban League of Metropolitan Denver
Provides a variety of programs and services including education enrichment after-school programs, employment and training.
Urban Peak Denver
Helps young people overcome homelessness and other real life challenges by providing safety, respect, services and a supportive community, empowering them to become self-reliant adults.

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Visiting Nurse Association of Denver
In its second century of service, VNCC provides compassionate in-home health care services including: nursing, physical and occupational therapy, hospice, wellness, and care for underserved patients.
Volunteers of America Colorado Branch
Homeless: meals; emergency shelter; supportive housing for chronically, mentally ill women; transitional housing for youth; Seniors: meals-on-wheels; Children: Head Start and Rainbow House.

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Warren Village
Unique family community helping motivated low-income, previously homeless single-parent families move from public assistance to personal and economic self-sufficiency.
Washington Street Community Center
Organization that unites neighbors and neighborhoods of south central Denver. An intergenerational gathering place for the community and a center providing services to meet the needs of families, seniors, children and adults.
Whiz Kids Tutoring
Improving the well-being of disadvantaged youth through academic tutoring, positive relationships and spiritual nurturing through the facilitation of one-to-one tutoring relationships.
The Women's Crisis & Family Outreach Center
Provides 24-hour crisis line, shelter, therapy, and legal advocacy for domestic violence victims plus school-based violence prevention and psycho-educational programs for the region.
Work Options for Women
Homeless and unemployed women gain the skills and confidence they need to work their way out of poverty through “hands on” job-training and employment placement.

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YESS Institute
YESS provides students the skills to shift towards a positive cycle of leadership development, civic engagement and academic success through peer mentoring and emotional intelligence.
YMCA of Metropolitan Denver
Provides childcare, preschool and early childhood education, before /after-school care, camp, teen leadership, youth /adult sports, at-risk youth programs, adult fitness/ health/ wellness activities.
YouthBiz, Inc.
Provides after-school and summer programs to youth from Denver's inner-city neighborhoods with a focus on business academics and leadership.

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