Involvement
Community First Foundation returned more than $6.8 million to the community in 2006 through initiatives, programs and grant-making. Details include the following:
Nonprofit Preservation Initiative
The Foundation’s Nonprofit Preservation Initiative was designed to support the long-term future of nonprofit organizations. The initiative is comprised of a variety of programs and services, such as Endowment Challenge Grants, Strengthening Partners Grants, and education. Listed below are the nonprofits who received funding from the Foundation through the Nonprofit Preservation Initiative.
Endowment Challenge Grants
The Foundation provided matching funds to nonprofit partners participating in its Endowment Challenge Grants program. Matching grants and disbursements in the amount of $163,441 were made to the following participating nonprofits:
The Adoption Exchange
Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities
CWEE—Center for Work Education and Employment
Colorado Council on Economic Education
The Conflict Center
DenverWorks
The Jefferson Foundation
Jewish Family Service of Colorado
Lutheran Family Services of Colorado
The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the State of Colorado
Rocky Mountain MS Center
The Uptown Partnership, Inc.
Wheat Ridge Rotary Club
Strengthening Partners Grants
$125,000 in Strengthening Partners Grants were awarded by the Foundation to 25 of our nonprofit partners to build core organizational systems and strong organizations. Partners receiving the 2006 grants were:
Aurora Mental Health Center
Blue Sky Bridge
Children’s Outreach Project
Colorado Cancer Research Program
Colorado Council on Economic Education
Colorado Neurological Institute
Colorado Public Television KBDI—Channel 12
The Conflict Center
Doctors Care
Eaton Senior Programs
Exempla Lutheran Medical Center
Girl Scouts—Mile Hi Council
Jeffco Action Center
Jefferson County Library Foundation
Junior Achievement—Rocky Mountain, Inc.
Lutheran Family Services of Colorado
Metro Community Provider Network
Mountain Area Land Trust (MALT)
The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the State of Colorado
Seniors’ Resource Center
Servicios de La Raza
Tennyson Center for Children at Colorado Christian Home
Visiting Nurse Association
Wheat Ridge Rotary Club
YMCA of Metropolitan Denver, Susan M. Duncan Family Branch
Education
The Foundation awarded several of its nonprofit partners scholarship opportunities to attend educational presentations. The presentations focused on skills to build stronger nonprofits. More than $9,500 in scholarships were provided.
Community Grants
Grants given to nonprofit organizations operating in the six county metropolitan Denver area and Boulder County include the following:
Organization names are in bold followed by grant purpose.
American Red Cross ($23,272)
Katrina Relief
Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities ($5,000)
Children’s Theater Program
Colorado Nonprofit Association ($45,000)
Economic Impact Study
Exempla Lutheran Medical Center ($1,000)
Physicians’ Community Award designation for Hospice Capital Campaign
Jefferson County Department of Health and Environment ($11,000)
Colposcopy Program and Women’s Cancer Control Initiative
Metro Community Provider Network ($10,000)
General operating support
Metro Denver Health and Wellness Commission ($17,500)
General funding for first year of operations
Renee’s Friends ($1,411)
General assistance for cancer patients with nonmedical needs
Seniors’ Resource Center ($52,000)
Coordinated-Care Demonstration Project
Wheat Ridge 2020 ($5,000)
Board development
City of Wheat Ridge ($8,500)
Life Saver Project for memory impaired older adults
Young AmeriTowne Belmar Campus ($11,166)
Youth Philanthropy Program
Philanthropy Program Match
YMCA of Metropolitan Denver ($5,000)
Strong Kids Campaign
Community Involvement Grants ($18,700)
Grants used to support organizations and their programs.
Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities
Colorado Bright Beginnings
Colorado Nonprofit Association
Denver Chamber of Commerce
DenverWorks
Exempla Lutheran Medical Center
Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital Foundation
GoodNews Breakfast
The Jefferson Foundation
Mental Health Association of Colorado
Metro Community Provider Network
Metro Volunteers
Rainbow Bridge
Seniors’ Resource Center
The West Chamber
The West Chamber Foundation
Designated and Advised Funds
Designated Funds
A designated fund is a fund established by a donor for a specific charitable purpose.
Fund names are in bold followed by recipient or organization name.
Assisting Foundation Fund ($4,917)
VIDA Productions; Foundation-for-Life
Collier Family Scholarship Fund ($14,822)
Red Rocks Community College
Hotel de Paris Museum Fund ($62,255)
Hotel de Paris Museum
Community Leadership Forum Fund ($15,000)
Colorado School of Mines
Red Rocks Community College
Jefferson County Public Schools
Colorado Law Enforcement Officers’ Association Fund ($35,000)
Colorado Law Enforcement Officers’ Association
Educational Foundation for Technology Fund ($22,500)
Educational Foundation for Technology
Fox Family Scholarship Fund ($59,650)
Individual scholarship directed to schools across the nation
Metro Community Provider Network Fund ($2,453,650)
Metro Community Provider Network
TJF Chris Faughnan Memorial Scholarship Fund ($6,100)
The Jefferson Foundation
Whimspire Fund ($29,929)
Whimspire, Inc.
Advised Funds
An advised fund is a fund established at the Foundation by a donor who receives immediate tax benefits, earns investment revenue and allows the donor or the donor’s designee(s) to recommend grants to qualified charitable organizations on a flexible timetable.
Fund names are in bold followed by recipient or organization name.
Lois & John Cochran Oncology Fund ($1,000)
Educational award for health care provider in cancer services
Exempla Lutheran Medical Center Physicians’ Donor Advised Fund ($165,000)
Exempla Lutheran Medical Center Hospice Capital Campaign
Leach Family Fund ($25,000)
The Argyle Foundation
Exempla Lutheran Medical Center Hospice Capital Campaign
Storatz Family Trust ($850)
Lost and Found, Inc.
Christian Management Association
Janet A. Fania Scholarship Fund ($1,000)
Blessed Sacrament School
Support of Exempla Lutheran Medical Center
Community First Foundation is the fund-raising arm of our namesake—Lutheran Medical Center. Exempla Lutheran Medical Center (ELMC) remains a beneficiary of the Foundation.
More than $3,233,949 were granted to ELMC to support programs and services. Highlights include:
Bridges Integrative Health Services ($1,560)
Treatment for Exempla Lutheran Medical Center patients
Cancer Services ($1,089)
Staff education
Colorado Lutheran Home ($54,618)
Facility improvements
Emergency/Trauma ($5,000)
Emergency Department services
Exempla Lutheran Medical Center ($3,067,824)
Capital Campaign, headed by the Foundation, to build the
Collier Hospice Center
Hospice/Palliative Care ($7,572)
Hospice Dragonfly Program
Humanitarian Support ($22,545)
Grants and interest-free loans for Exempla Lutheran Medical
Center employees facing financial crisis
Exempla Lutheran Medical Center ($72,337)
Volunteers’ capital campaign pledge to hospice
