2003 Grant & Sponsorship
Recipients
The following organizations received grant or sponsorship
support from Community First Foundation in 2003.
Community Grants
2 B Alive ($8,000)
Asset building program for youth and children
Applewood Valley United Methodist Church
($1,000)
General operations
Arapahoe House ($5,000)
General operations – mental health services
Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities
($5,000)
Arts for Ageless Adults program
Assets for Colorado Youth ($10,000)
Asset building for children and youth
Colorado Nonprofit Association, formerly known as Colorado Association for Nonprofit Organizations (CANPO) ($1,000)
Organizational development
Cenikor Foundation ($5,000)
General operations – mental health services
Jefferson County Children’s Advocacy
Center ($55,673)
General operations
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless
($5,000)
General operations – mental health services
Connecting Neighbors Grants
Camp Paha ($1,052)
City of Arvada ($10,000)
City of Golden ($10,000)
City of Lakewood ($10,000)
City of Wheat Ridge ($10,000)
O’Kane Park ($300)
Marshall Street Tree Planting ($1,373)
Saint Joseph Hospital Foundation
($500)
Nursing education
Foothills Mental Health Foundation ($75,000)
General operations – mental health services
Foothills Park and Recreation ($8,000)
Asset building for children and youth
Friendship Bridge ($500)
Micro credit program for Guatemalan women
Jeffco Action Center ($15,000)
General operations and school supplies
Jefferson County Department of Health and Environment ($14,200)
Follow up screenings following abnormal medical test results
for women below poverty guidelines
Lakewood Legacy Foundation ($1,000)
Programs to enhance the well-being of Lakewood residents
National Alliance for the Mentally
Ill Colorado ($5,000)
General operations – mental health services
Parents and Community Connecting Together
(PACCT) ($5,000)
Asset building for children and youth
Pediatrics West, P.C. ($5,000)
Books for youth literacy Reach Out and Read program
Physicians’ Donor Advised Fund
($30,500)
Matching funds for physician-directed community support
Seniors’ Resource Center ($20,000)
Transportation for seniors
Stride ($5,000)
Down payment matching home loan for single mothers
Susan B. Duncan YMCA ($2,500)
Programs for families and seniors
Uplift Internationale ($1,000)
General Operations
Youth Leadership Jefferson County ($32,511)
Leadership experience program for Jefferson County high school
students
West Bowles Community Church ($570)
Summer camp scholarships
Sponsorships $19,073
Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP)
Arvada Children’s Charity
Arvada Rotary Foundation
Colorado Business Committee for the Arts
Colorado Parents of Multiples
Family Tree
Friendship Bridge
Good News Breakfast
Helping Hearts and Hands
Historic Elitch Gardens Theatre Foundation
Jefferson Economic Council
Jeffco Action Center
Jefferson Foundation
Mark Moyad, M.D., Community Presentation
National Philanthropy Day
Saint Joseph Hospital Foundation
Seniors’ Resource Center
Stride
Volunteer Hospitals of America (VHA)
Wheat Ridge Senior Community Center
Grants by Donor Fund
Cochran Fund Awards ($460)
Oncology health-care provider education
Colorado Law Enforcement Officers’ Association (CLEOA)
($10,000)
General operations
Collier Family Scholarship Fund ($13,305)
Red Rocks Community College
Scholarships
Colorado Peace Officers Foundation, Inc. (CPOF) ($3,576)
General operations and scholarships
Historic Elitch Gardens Theatre Foundation ($118,915)
Restoration and maintenance of The Elitch Gardens
Theatre, The Carousel Pavilion and
The Theatre Plaza
Leach Family Donor Advised Fund ($25,000)
Red Rocks Community College
Scholarships
Mountain Crest Mortgage Donor Advised Fund ($6,720)
Friends of Kids in Crisis, American Cancer Society, Habitat
for Humanity, Inc., Boys and Girls Clubs, Women’s Bean Project,
and Ronald McDonald House
General operations
Volunteer Restricted Fund ($146,816)
Exempla Lutheran Medical Center (ELMC) Community Programs
Exempla Lutheran Medical Center ($318,639)
Community First Foundation continued its heritage of support
for Exempla Lutheran Medical Center, which has been meeting the health-care
needs of the community for nearly one hundred years.
The Foundation granted $318,639 in funding to provide support for
the following programs and services:
Bridges Integrative Health Services
General operations – bridging integrative therapies
with conventional medical care
Diabetes Center
Staff education
Emergency Services
Educational training support
Exempla Lutheran Medical Center
Purchase of defibrillators
ELMC Employees and Physicians
Recognition
Exempla Colorado Lutheran Home
Facility upgrades and country cart store for residents
Exempla Lutheran Hospice
Staff education, bereavement services, and feasibility study
for new free standing hospice facility on campus of ELMC
Heart Center and Cardiac Rehabilitation
Community education event
Humanitarian Funds
Interest-free loans to assist ELMC employees facing financial
crisis
Oncology Services
Shower upgrades
Patient PrideTM
Friendly visitor service that provides health and beauty
aids to long-term care patients and hospitalized women
Pet Therapy
Therapeutic visits by pet therapy dogs
Pharmacy
Staff education
Spiritual Care
Fiber optic cable to link chapel services to patient rooms
West Pines
Fiber optic cable hospital link
Women’s Services
Solace – a pregnancy and newborn loss program
