CNDC works primarily with charitable organizations that have not yet achieved 501(c)(3) status. This can encompass organizations at virtually any stage of development – from a start-up to transitioning and established community organizations.
Since CNDC also assumes responsibility for all financial and legal liabilities for our projects, it’s important that we ensure the partnership is a good fit for everyone. Our vetting process helps ensure all organizations under the CNDC umbrella are aligned with our goal of implementing innovative solutions to build stronger communities. CNDC looks for Projects that demonstrate an innovative approach to meeting a community need, strong leadership, clear objectives, a realistic budget, and an ability to attract donors.
Once we have determined a charitable organization is a good match for CNDC, they become known as a ‘Project’ under the umbrella of CNDC’s 501(c)(3).
In addition to the services we offer to projects under our 501 (c)(3), we also offer certain support services to established 501(c)(3)s. These nonprofits essentially outsource their accounting to CNDC and receive hands-on support in financial management that allows them to focus their time and energy on providing quality services in the community.
Project Directory
CNDC Projects make a big difference in the communities they serve. Many Projects under the CNDC umbrella have been recognized locally and nationally for their contributions to improving the quality of life here in Colorado.
Since our inception, CNDC has supported more than 200 Projects, managed nearly $100 million in Project revenue, and received and administered more than 1,000 grants to benefit Projects. To date, our Projects have generated more than 850,000 in volunteer hours.
To make a donation to one of our Projects, please visit the individual Project’s website.
AFRICAN LEADERSHIP GROUP
African Leadership Group helps the African diaspora integrate and prosper by connecting cultures, promote businesses within our communities here in America and abroad, mentor the youth, encourage political participation, bring the African diaspora together.
ANTONITO TOGETHER
Each rural community will work to create health equity for its citizens.
A+ COLORADO
The goal of A+ Colorado is to mobilize the broader community to make public education the most important priority for the City and County of Denver.
ARTPLANT
ArtPlant cultivates interaction with art, literature and the creative community by providing dynamic opportunities for individuals to develop their artistic voices, and use them to engage themselves; each other and the public in dialogue.
ASSURING BETTER CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT
ABCD enlists community stakeholders to expand the early use of standardized development screening tools amongst health care providers.
AVONDALE RESIDENT GROUP
Each rural community will work to create health equity for its citizens.
BANK ON DENVER
Bank on Denver is an initiative to connect unbanked and under-banked Denver residents to local banks and credit unions to ensure that residents have access to products and services that allow them to maximize opportunities for building assets and improving financial stability.
BANYAN TREE
Banyan Tree uses multicultural arts and therapeutic services to build healthy, strong, individuals, families and neighborhoods in Northeast Denver.
BENEFITS IN ACTION
Benefits In Action is dedicated to improving health care access and economic security to Colorado’s undeserved and military veterans.
BOOMERS LEADING CHANGE
Boomers Leading Change in Health harnesses the experience, energy, and conviction of Adults 50+ to make a difference in the lives of individuals and families across Metro Denver by creating healthier, better-informed, more confident healthcare consumers and improving access to healthcare for all.
BREAKING SILENCE
BRK engages and inspires communities to take action, and recognize their responsibility for the impact interpersonal violence has on our culture and the lives of numerous individuals annually.
BRINGING MUSIC TO LIFE
BMTL provides economically disadvantaged children throughout Colorado with the opportunity to learn to play a musical instrument by collecting and repairing donated instruments, and awarding them to qualifying schools and music programs.
CENTER FOR BRIGHT KIDS
CBK offers K-12 enrichment and acceleration programming for high-interest and high-ability children.
CHALLENGE DENVER
Challenge Denver works to inspire and re-engage Denver Public School (DPS) middle and high school students to their school communities by providing them with the experience of Challenge Day and follow-up programming and support.
CHRIS ANTHONY’S YOUTH INITIATIVE PROJECT
The Mission of the Chris Anthony Youth Initiative Project is to improve quality of life by introducing youth to educational enrichment opportunities via the Chris Anthony School Visit Program and Youth Initiative Project Scholarship and filter program.
COLORADO AFTERSCHOOL PARTNERSHIP
Colorado Afterschool Partnership facilitates strong out-of-school time partnerships in order to strengthen the quality of after-school, summer, and out-of-school programs in Colorado.
COLORADO COLLABORATIVE FOR NONPROFITS
COLORADO CONSTRUCTION INSTITUTE
Colorado Construction Institute provides transformational workforce development programs for disadvantaged persons with barriers to employment that lead to middle-skilled careers in construction.
COLORADO CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE ACCESS PROGRAM (CCHAP)
The Healthcare for Every Child program was formed to develop, implement and evaluate sustainable and replicable clinical care systems in the private sector that improve the access, quality, and cost effectiveness of health services for Colorado children of low-income families.
COLORADO COALITION FOR ELDER RIGHTS AND ABUSE PREVENTION
The Colorado Coalition for Elder Rights and Abuse Prevention (CCERAP) promotes the understanding of elder/adult abuse, and the rights and protections available to elders and at-risk adults.
COLORADO INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT
Colorado Interfaith Power and Light’s mission is to stimulate a faith-based response to the climate crisis by providing education, inspiration and support to all faith communities in Colorado.
THE COLORADO LEGISLATIVE WOMEN’S CAUCUS
The Colorado Legislative Women’s Caucus is a bicameral and bipartisan organization made up of the women currently serving in the Colorado General Assembly who come together to foster collegiality among members and to honor the history of women in the legislature.
COLORADO PET PANTRY
PET Pantry temporarily feeds Colorado pets, allowing families to increase their ability to care for pets with the goal of keeping them out of shelters and with their families — both reducing the number of animals in the shelter system and enabling families to keep pets as part of their household.
COMMUNITY REENTRY PROJECT
The Community Reentry Project provides adults who have recently been released from jail, education, workshops, support, and assistance to help keep them out of jail.
THE COMMUNITY VOICE
Each rural community will work to create health equity for its citizens.
THE CRUSH (CREATIVE RITUALS UNDER SOCIAL HARMONY)
CRUSH celebrates art, urban beautification, creativity, and culture by enriching a community through an annual public arts festival. Centered around empowering artists’, CRUSH is committed to reflecting and diversifying the urban landscape and the unique voice of a community, bringing art out of the galleries and into the streets.
DENVER EDUCATION ATTAINMENT NETWORK
DenverEAN’s mission is to increase college attainment for graduates of Denver Public Schools on the Auraria Campus and Emily Griffith Technical College through a multi-sector collaborative that connects resources and efforts.
DENVER HARLEQUIN WHEELCHAIR RUGBY TEAM
Harlequin Wheelchair Rugby’s goals are to enrich the lives of people with disabilities, offer wheelchair athletes a recreational and/or competitive outlet, and promote disability awareness through educational and community outreach.
DENVER PERMACULTURE GUILD
Denver Permaculture Guild uses permaculture design to foster resilient and just communities in the greater Denver area through educational programs, community building events and development of permaculture-based livelihoods.
DENVER REGIONAL MOBILITY & ACCESS COUNCIL (DRMAC)
DRMAC’s mission is to ensure people with mobility challenges have access to the community by increasing, enhancing, sharing, and coordinating regional transportation services and resources.
EL SISTEMA COLORADO
El Sistema Colorado empowers children by providing after-school music programs that teach teamwork, promote self-worth and instill social responsibility.
EXPLORE & DISCOVER
The mission of the Explore & Discover Center is to provide infants and toddlers (ages 12-36 months) with a nurturing, engaging environment that promotes exploration and learning using the Reggio Emilia model for child development.
FAMILIES FORWARD RESOURCE CENTER
Families Forward Resource Center enriches entire families through partnership and services that create a safe, healthy, connected community.
FOCUS REENTRY
FOCUS is a reentry mentoring program committed to assisting the offenders enrolled in its program to first stabilize their lives on release from jail, and then to help them achieve self-sufficiency in order to reduce recidivism and enhance community safety.
FORT MORGAN CULTURES UNITE FOR PROGRESS
Fort Morgan Cultures Unite for Progress will work to create health equity for the citizens of Fort Morgan, Colorado.
GIRLS ROCK DENVER
Girls Rock Denver empowers girls through music education, creation, and performance, fostering self-esteem, creativity and collaboration.
GOLDEN TRIANGLE PARTNERSHIP
Golden Triangle Partnership will establish neighborhood leadership to implement the projects and initiatives presented in the Golden Triangle Neighborhood Plan designed to bolster the cultural vibrancy of the neighborhood, promote the identity of the Golden Triangle, and promote accessibility to all populations.
GREENLEAF
At GreenLeaf, young people ages 14 – 18 earn a fair wage while they grow food for their communities and explore issues of health, nutrition, and social justice.
GROWING COLORADO KIDS
Growing Colorado Kids works to reduce hunger, improve nutrition and provide experiential learning opportunities for refugee youth through organic farming.
HARM REDUCTION ACTION CENTER
The Harm Reduction Action Center empowers, educates, and advocates for the health and dignity of injection drug users and their affected partners in the Denver metro area, in accordance with harm reduction principles.
LAGO VISTA RESIDENT GROUP
Each rural community will work to create health equity for its citizens.
MAKING OLATHE BETTER
Each rural community will work to create health equity for its citizens.
MANZANOLA RESIDENT GROUP
Each rural community will work to create health equity for its citizens.
MENTOR COLORADO
Mentor Colorado increases and improves the quality of mentoring opportunities available to the children of Colorado, helping more youth achieve their potential as individuals and citizens.
MILE HIGH HEALTH ALLIANCE
The mission of the Mile High Health Alliance is to achieve better health for all Denver residents through collaboration by forming an alliance of stakeholder organizations in Denver dedicated to increasing access to care, better coordinating health care services, and decreasing health care costs.
MIRACLES FOR MITO
MFM provides research and information, focusing on awareness, education, support and advocacy for children and adults to ensure that no individual or family feels alone while trying to understand a complicated mitochondrial diagnosis.
MOMMY ROCKS
Mommy Rocks collects and refurbishes used rocking chairs. The chairs are then given to first-time, low-income mothers and their newborn children.
NEIGHBOR NETWORK
Neighbor Network volunteer services allow elderly community members to stay in their homes, living with dignity, for as long as safely possible, preventing the premature transition into an assisted living facility.
NEW FOUNDATIONS
Through Alternatives to Violence workshops, New Foundations gives inmates tools to change their lives, including learning new ways to react to potentially violent situations of conflict and frustration.
OUTREACH FORT COLLINS
Outreach Fort Collins is a community-driven, street outreach program working to maintain downtown Fort Collins as a safe and welcoming place for all community members while connecting our community’s most vulnerable to the services and supportive networks they need.
PEDIATRIC EPILEPSY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM (PERC)
The mission of the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium (PERC) is to create collaboration to encourage multicenter research in pediatric epilepsy using a network of pediatric epilepsy centers within North America.
PHILANTHROPY FIELD TRIPS
Philanthropy Field Trips offers customized field trips to help individuals and groups in the Denver metro area learn more about the good work that nonprofit organizations in their communities are doing and to get involved through informative, service-based visits.
PINK RIBBON SURVIVORS NETWORK
The Pink Ribbon Survivors Network exists with the dual purpose of serving the needs of breast cancer survivors and the needs of health care professionals that care for breast cancer survivors.
PROFOUNDLY GIFTED RETREAT
An annual retreat in Denver for profoundly gifted children and their parents across the country, PG Retreat provides the opportunity for profoundly gifted children and families to connect with others like themselves. Parents learn from the experiences of other parents and attend presentations by professionals who specialize in issues related to profoundly gifted individuals.
PROJECT VOYCE
Project VOYCE has evolved into a leadership program that increases student engagement in school, improves graduation rates, and promotes youth success for Denver students through in-depth leadership and advocacy training.
PROWERS UNITED
The mission of Prowers United is to build a united, empowered community (Prowers county) where health is a priority at every level and everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
SAGUACHE RESIDENT GROUP
Each rural community will work to create health equity for its citizens.
SAN LUIS RESIDENT GROUP
Each rural community will work to create health equity for its citizens.
SECURE FUTURES COLORADO
Secure Futures Colorado advances meaningful reform to secure the retirement future of Colorado’s public employees in a manner that is fiscally responsible and sustainable.
SKY’Z THE LIMIT
Sky’z The Limit is committed to providing quality program work to benefit developmentally disabled youth and their non-disabled peers.
SMART COLORADO
Smart Colorado is a volunteer-led organization dedicated to protecting the public health and safety of Colorado youth against the effects of marijuana legalization.
SOUTHWEST DENVER COALITION
The mission of the Southwest Denver Coalition is to facilitate collaboration between the Southwest Denver community, local community based organizations (CBO’s) non-profit and the City of Denver. Southwest Denver Coalition promotes community engagement to highlight the neighborhood needs and to efficiently connect connsituents to the approriate service provider.
SPACEHORIZONS
SpaceHorizons connects high school students in urban and under-served regions to the resources necessary to conduct a real space mission, increasing pursuit of STEM careers and expanding overall STEM literacy.
STREETSBLOG DENVER
Streetsblog Denver’s mission is to advance sustainable transportation development and livable streets — pedestrian and bicycle friendly streets — in Denver by connecting the public and its playmakers with insightful, relevant content.
STRONG SISTERS
SIS seeks to expand the knowledge of the important role elected women have played in Colorado, focusing on our place in history as a national leader and how having women in office has made a difference, through the creation of a documentary incorporating 80 interviews.
SURVIVORS ORGANIZING FOR LIBERATION
SOL is dedicated to ending all violence within and against the LGBTQ community throughout Colorado through programs such as a 24-hour crisis line, court and systems advocacy training, education and technical assistance.
WALK DENVER
Walk Denver is a pedestrian advocacy group whose vision for Denver is to become a network of well-connected neighborhoods that are people-focused, culturally vibrant, active, and economically thriving.
WEECYCLE
WeeCycle’s mission is to help low income families with infants and toddlers in the Denver metro area by providing them with new and gently used baby gear free of charge.
WOMEN IN SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
Women in Sustainable Energy (WISE) was formed informally by women at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden. to promote education, mentoring, and networking for women in Colorado in the field of sustainable energy.
WOMEN’S REGIONAL NETWORK
The Women’s Regional Network’s goal is to build the necessary relationships, networks and influence to ensure women’s concerns and voices are included in the highest levels of dialogue in South Asia countries, such as Iran, India, Pakistan, China, Nepal.
Young Nonprofit Professionals Network Denver
Young Nonprofit Professionals Network is a member-based professional development organization whose mission is to connect and develop young nonprofit leaders to leverage collective strengths and resources.