Sustaining Housing Solutions
Overview
The Colorado Trust is seeking to increase housing affordability and stability for those who face barriers to living a long and healthy life. The purpose of this initiative is to fund entities to provide wraparound services or any variety of assistive housing services.
Grantees
Advocates of Lake County, Inc.
Support for providing crisis response, coordinated entry, case management, rapid rehousing, financial assistance, emergency shelter and street outreach for community members, particularly people from low-income households and Latino/a/x community members experiencing homelessness.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $354,998
Brothers Redevelopment, Inc.
Support for implementing a housing communications plan to elevate client stories to reduce the stigma associated with housing instability and homelessness, enhance resource navigation, mediation, education and counseling via the organization’s helpline, and provide tailored outreach and housing services for rural communities.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $344,635
Chaffee Housing Authority
Support for providing emergency and transitional housing and wraparound services to economically disadvantaged individuals and families.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $322,762
East Colfax Community Collective
Support for providing immediate housing relief, tenant organizing, regulatory enforcement, policy and process advocacy, financial empowerment programs and community ownership of properties to community members, particularly those from marginalized communities.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $355,000
Fort Lewis College Foundation, Inc.
Support for emergency housing, housing navigation, wraparound services and housing stability programming to Fort Lewis College students experiencing homelessness.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $353,171
Habitat for Humanity – Greeley Area
Support for building affordable, single-family homes, mainly through 3D printing technology, and training students to use that technology at Aims Community College in Greeley.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $355,000
Hope House Serving Northeastern Colorado
Support for providing transitional housing, case management, life skills and employment support to youth with substance use disorder and people involved in the justice system.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $314,538
Housing Resources of Western Colorado
Support for providing homeownership support, HUD-approved housing counseling, home ownership classes, employer-funded mini-grants and a purchase assistance loan program for people from low-income households, rural immigrants and diverse communities.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $355,000
Impact Charitable
Support for increasing housing stability for older homeowners in rural communities by providing one-time grants—first by engaging underserved community members and designing intervention programming, then implementing the programming by partnering with community organizations to recruit eligible people for grant funding.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $353,968
Kingdom Builder’s Family Life Center
Support for providing housing assistance and wraparound services primarily to Black women and children who are survivors of domestic or intimate partner violence and sexual assault.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $346,193
La Puente Home
Support for case management services to people experiencing homelessness.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $354,655
Manna – The Durango Soup Kitchen
Support for proving Spanish-speaking, Latino/a/x and immigrant households with rental, utility and home repair funding, for working with landlords and property managers to create more housing access for monolingual Spanish-speaking and undocumented households, and for implementing marketing strategies to reduce the stigma associated with people experiencing housing insecurity.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $355,000
Neighbor to Neighbor
Support for providing emergency rent, utility, housing search and move-in assistance, and additional wraparound support services for diverse and marginalized communities.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $350,000
Paradox Community Trust
Support for conducting bilingual outreach, assisting monolingual Spanish-speaking Latino/a/x immigrants, and implementing down payment assistance and mortgage guarantee programs and specialized startup assistance programs for a joint, modular early childhood education/workforce housing project.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $325,000
Sister Carmen Community Center, Inc.
Support for providing multi-month rental assistance to economically disadvantaged families and tax assistance to mobile homeowners at risk of losing their homes.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $355,000
Spark Community Foundation
Support for serving unhoused youth by providing housing and wraparound services, including outreach, screening and assessment, shelter and housing and intensive case management.
For more information, visit the organization’s Facebook page.
Grant amount: $349,788
The Gathering Place
Support for providing housing assistance and case management services to women, transgender and gender-expansive adults and their children.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $355,000
United Way – Morgan County Colorado
Support for providing housing support and wraparound services to unhoused and undocumented people and families who are refugees or asylum seekers.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $352,184