Relationships and connections are critical components to an organization and/or community’s ability to work together in service of addressing shared goals. The Colorado Health Foundation Building and Bridging Connections funding aims to strengthen social capital and community-building efforts aimed at addressing health challenges and advancing health equity.
This funding will support:
- Creating connections, building trust and reciprocity, and expanding dialogue on a community’s view of itself that positions them for future collective action
- Building community between people of color and/or groups working together within a community (e.g. connecting Indigenous women, Black people living with disabilities, Asian American and Pacific Islanders who identify as LGBTQ, etc.) who may not have historically worked together
- Amplifying voices who have historically had less power and/or privilege within community through prioritization and inclusion of cultural practices that represent and honor cultural heritage, history, stories and traditions about lived experience
- Connecting different parts of community to one another that traditionally have not interacted
Programs or projects must focus on a specific, defined community that aligns with the Foundation’s cornerstones and prioritizes groups that have historically been left out of community-building efforts, such as communities of color, immigrant and refugee communities, people living with disabilities, LGBTQ communities and others dependent on context.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.