Community

Accion

Accion is a global nonprofit committed to creating a financial inclusive world, with a pioneering legacy in microfinance and fintech impact investing. Our mission is to give people the financial tools they need to improve their lives and build resilience when its more important than ever.
We take an integrated approach to financial inclusion, partnering with local institutions to transform financial markets. We do this through influencing, investing, and advising.

ADD International

The movement for disability equality is powered by the drive, vision and courage of disability activists; They have the passion to fight for change.

It’s their lives and their communities at stake. What they often need are the tools and resources to run effective organisations. That’s where ADD International comes in.
ADD International supports the global disability rights movement by supporting activists, building movements and influencing for change. They improve the way we work with organisations of people with disabilities by becoming a participatory-grant maker, to give more power and resources to disabled people working for change.

Africa Agenda

Africa Agenda is driven by the need to change the one-sided narrative of African News. We use the Africa Agenda website, journalistic tools, and events, including the Africa News Matters website, as platforms for critical engagement and news analysis about the African continent.

Africa Network for Animal Welfare

Africa Network for Animal Welfare (ANAW) is a Pan-African Organization based in Kenya that promotes humane treatment of all animals and the well being of communities living with them. ANAW-USA partners with ANAW, and others, promoting an all Africa agenda, sustained by communities for conservation, compassion, protection and responsible care of all animals.

Africa School Assistance Project

The Africa School Assistance Project (ASAP) believes that educating children, particularly girls, is fundamental to a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable future for Africa. ASAP is increasing access to education for children in poor, remote areas of Tanzania and is developing a Learning Improvement Initiative to enhance teaching quality and classroom learning. ASAP works in accordance with the UN Millennium Development Goals and our projects meet rigorous standards for sustainability cultural appropriateness. Additionally, ASAP leads groups of American volunteers to work on our school projects to create a cross-cultural understanding between Americans and Africans.

AidKonekt

AidKonekt is an online platform that makes it easy to build and monitor your USAID pipeline. AidKonekt provides a ticker of USAID forecast changes, suggests primes/partners for each opportunity, makes DEC research easy, includes a local compensation plan archive, and much more!

American Pathways University: Technology, Business, Political Science School at UC Denver, School of Mines

The mission of American Pathways University is to provide an affordable, accessible, and authorized program of higher education, including general education in arts and sciences and specialized fields of study in vocational and academic majors that facilitate immediate and long-term changes in thinking, doing, and being as cornerstones for personal freedom, successful lives, vocational careers, financial self-reliance, and community leadership. These outcomes are served by a general education informed worldview that introduces students to the world of ideas and career oriented majors that prepare graduates for the world of work.

Angel Covers

Angel Covers is a global development organization strengthening healthcare and education in rural communities where children are vulnerable to malnutrition, trafficking, and disease to ensure that every child’s life is full of health and opportunity.

Angela Varnum

Angela Varnum is a large animal veterinarian, a licensed teacher, and develops programs in animal health and welfare for nonprofits, in higher education, and with diverse audiences. Varnum holds advanced degrees in global health and international development, is competent in the Spanish language, and has a specific interest in animal welfare. Varnum enjoys helping children to become stewards of animals and assisting adults to take ownership of animal care, and believes we are connected by animals’ worldwide importance to human livelihoods, lifestyles, and health.

Ashley Kochans

Ashley is a digital marketer that loves explaining complicated things in simple ways. As the founder of Kochans Consulting, she brings her experience in website optimization and marketing automation to mission-driven organizations. When she’s not maximizing organic traffic, she’s cooking organic meals, or practicing yoga.

Audrey Odogu

Akpevweoghene Audrey Odogu has over 10 years of working as a social development professional and with non-profits across Nigeria and Africa. Her work in the social development sector focuses on education, volunteer management, youth unemployment (TIVET) skilling and reskilling for employment, grantmaking, managing and building non-profit capacity.

AYA Foundation

The AYA Foundation is Colorado’s Black-led community Foundation. It is a collaborative organization that is capable of securing a variety of resources; growing and redistributing those resources in a way that supports and benefits the Black ecosystem based on researched and tested methods to build economic empowerment.

Bridges to Prosperity

Bridges to Prosperity envisions a world where poverty caused by rural isolation no longer exists. Rural isolation is a root cause of poverty, and Bridges to Prosperity believes that connection is the foundation of opportunity. We work with local communities, partners and foundations, to build trail bridges that connect residents to education, health care, and economic opportunity. With a sophisticated data collection and evaluation program, we’re able to prove that the value and impact of our work are sustained long after the opening celebration. 

Bulamu Healthcare

In Uganda, Bulamu means “well-being” or “life.” To people in East Africa, Bulamu Healthcare is a lifeline to accessing the essential care they deserve.

Bulamu Healthcare is dedicated to improving health outcomes in underserved communities in East Africa through innovative and sustainable healthcare solutions. Our mission focuses on providing accessible, high-quality medical services, enhancing health education, and promoting wellness initiatives. We work collaboratively with local partners to empower individuals and families, ensuring they receive the care they need. By leveraging technology and community engagement, we aim to transform healthcare delivery and create lasting impact in the regions we serve. Together, we envision a healthier future for all.

CAI Global

CAI is a diverse, mission-driven non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of health care and social services delivered to vulnerable populations world-wide. Since 1979, we’ve tackled the toughest health and social issues that confront populations and communities most effected by health disparities. Working as trusted partners, our customized services build the capacity of health and human service organizations, improving lives in the communities we serve and fostering a more aware, healthy, compassionate & equitable world.

Casa De Paz

Casa de Paz provides relief to those who have been detained by ICE.

CATCH Global Foundation

CATCH Global Foundation is a Whole Child organization that launches kids around the world toward healthier lifestyles by linking schools and communities to the resources needed to create and sustain physical and mental health for future generations.

Causal Design

Causal Design is a social enterprise providing economic analysis, policy research, and M&E systems support. Our firm – with staff in Denver, Cambodia, Kenya, and Malawi – partners with international development clients to provide rigorous independent program evaluation, expand cultures of evidence within organizations, and join them in efforts to relieve human suffering and end poverty.

Children’s Future International

We believe that every child has the right to a life of dignity and opportunity. Children’s Future operates a Learning Center in rural Cambodia offering unique and comprehensive Education, Well-Being, and Community Outreach programs. We serve the poorest and most vulnerable children who face the risks and hardships of life in an underdeveloped and traumatized country. Our goal is to facilitate the fulfillment of their basic human rights and support them in becoming self-reliant, compassionate individuals who develop into professionals, role models and future community leaders.

Chinook Fund

Chinook Fund supports community organizations working on issues of racial, social and economic justice in the state of Colorado. Our funding supports the most strategic work unfolding at the local level to address globalization, poverty, war, racism and environmental destruction. A community foundation, Chinook Fund pools the resources of individuals and businesses to support the best of peer-reviewed grassroots organizations working for social change and to improve the quality of life for all Coloradans.

Christina Jones

Christina Jones is an educational and curriculum consultant specializing in re-imagining and designing humanizing and joyful learning experiences for youth and adults, institutions, businesses, and organizations. Through her creative and innovative approach to curriculum design, she strives to engage both the brain and heart!

CLLARO: Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy Research Organization

CLLARO’s mission is to empower Latinos through leadership development, advocacy, and policy research to strengthen Colorado. CLLARO’s vision for the future is a State of Colorado where Latinos achieve their fullest potential.More than one out of five Coloradans are Latino. Some Latino families have centuries-old roots in the southwestern United States. Spanish colonists grazed sheep in southern Colorado in the 1600s, long before the U.S. took the southwest from México by force in 1848. Other Latinos in Colorado are—like most Americans—either immigrants or descendants of immigrants. Today, Latinos play a vital and constructive role in the Colorado economy. Nevertheless, Latinos’ median annual household income is $23,550 below that of non-Hispanic whites. Twenty-eight percent of Latino children live in poverty. While Colorado’s high school four-year graduation rate in Colorado has increased to 79%, Latinos still lag behind at 71%. The percentage of Latinos lacking health insurance is over two-and-a-half times that of whites. The average size of Latino households is shrinking, causing greater time and economic pressures on Latinos trying to care for disabled and elderly family members. Colorado’s Latino elderly population is growing nearly twice as fast as other Coloradans over 65, and will more than triple between 2010 and 2030.

CNRG Accounting Advisory LLC

CNRG Accounting Advisory is a Denver-based accounting firm focused on helping nonprofit leaders get comfortable reading their financials, understanding the connection between their mission and their money, and asking questions about the resources available. We’re your nonprofit ACE, providing accounting services, consulting on strategic financial management and educating organizations.

Colorado Ceasefire

Colorado Ceasefire believes gun violence destroys the lives of too many Coloradans. Every day, it raises awareness about the dangers of gun violence within homes and communities, and works with Colorado lawmakers to implement and maintain common-sense gun safety reforms that keep families and children free from harm.

Because every Coloradan has the right to be safe where they work, live, learn, and play.

Colorado People’s Alliance (COPA)

Colorado State University – Africa Center

The Africa Center at Colorado State University’s School of Global Environmental Sustainability advances innovative and interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary research that cross-cuts conventional disciplines in an attempt to tackle environmental and sustainability issues. Specifically, The Africa Center members address complex issues of biodiversity, ecosystems, wildlife, livestock, and human health well-being, and the interactions that occur between these issues across spatio-temporal scales. The Africa Center members are actively involved in research, education, and collaborative engagement between institutions in Africa and the United States to promote sustainable ecosystems and societies.

Daring Girls Formerly “AfricAid”

Daring Girls partners locally to ensure that girls have the knowledge, tools, mentorship, and support to confidently design their own futures. Daring Girls mentors secondary school girls in Tanzania to complete their education, develop into confident leaders and transform their own lives and their communities. Through our two core mentoring programs we support girls who dare to do something different, who choose to prioritize their education and take control of their futures. Every week, these Scholars show up to learn together in a supportive environment from a successful, university educated woman mentor who exemplifies what they can become. The outcome is resilient, proactive, and socially responsible girls who are prepared to set and reach their goals, secure better jobs, raise healthier families and increase the standing of women in society.

DEI Leadership Institute

The DEI Leadership Institute was established to develop and support activist leaders who have the skills, knowledge, and heart to be effective agents of change for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
The DEI Master Practitioner Certification Program is designed to enable and empower leaders to make significant change to the diversity, equity, and inclusion of the organizations that they lead. The program is an online, adviser supported, six-week, self-paced curriculum which includes: History & Background, Terminology, Best Practices, Measurement Tools, and Approaches, and Project Work.

Denver Department of Public Health and Environment

The Denver Department of Public Health & Environment (DDPHE) is Denver’s nationally accredited public health agency. We empower Denver’s communities to live better, longer by providing people with opportunities that support their well-being and by improving services that enrich our community.

Denver Urban Gardens

Denver Urban Gardens (DUG) provides the access, skills, and resources for people to grow healthy food in their community and regenerate urban green spaces. DUG envisions a sustainable urban future where people are deeply and directly connected to the earth, each other, and the food they eat.

Primarily serving in-need residents in Metro Denver, DUG provides neighborhoods, schools, and partner organizations the essential resources to create and sustain their own community gardens. In addition to supporting well over 100 gardens, DUG operates education, outreach, and support programs centered on gardening, healthy food access, and community leadership. DUG also operates DeLaney Community Farm, a community-supported agriculture project focused on local food security and education.

Denver’s Early Childhood Council

Denver’s Early Childhood Council works to facilitate a strong system to meet the needs of the youngest children and their families.

dZi Foundation

The dZi Foundation works in partnership with remote communities in Nepal to create lasting improvements in their quality of life by helping communities take control of their own future through the support of locally-initiated community development projects. dZi provides training and funds that allow communities to complete projects of their own choosing that increase education, health and income-generating opportunities. Their Deep Development program (DD) encompasses the majority of their work in Nepal. As one of the most innovative and efficient programs in the Himalayan region, DD encourages underserved communities to discover their own abilities and skills to create permanent solutions for better educational opportunities and facilities, basic health and hygiene, and income generation.

ECHO Inc.

ECHO is a global Christian agricultural networking and technical resourcing organization with a vision of a transformed world that honors God. For 43 years, our mission has been to build a global network of agriculture development practitioners and serve that network with joy by sharing validated contextualized agricultural strategies with technical excellence. Through the co-creation and sharing of knowledge via identification, validation, dissemination, and evaluation of agricultural strategies, our assistance in person, virtually (via www.echocommunity.org), and via hybrid modalities is utilized by a network of over 19,000 active workers and organizations, representing 190 countries.

Educate!

Africa has the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population. By 2035, the continent is poised to contribute more people to the global workforce each year than the rest of the world combined. At Educate!, we’re obsessed with impact. We leverage iterative learning to build highly scalable youth employment solutions aimed at unlocking the potential of the world’s youngest continent. Educate! prepares youth in Africa to learn, earn, and thrive in today’s economy by:

1) Introducing an employment-focused school subject into secondary, and 

2) Delivering livelihood bootcamps for out-of-school youth, with a focus on marginalized rural girls and young women.

Our work has been validated by several independent evaluations, which found positive outcomes on income, employment, gender equity, family planning and sexual and reproductive health, educational attainment, and climate change resilience. Along the way, Educate! has become the largest youth employment and skills provider in East Africa.

Effect X LLC

Effective organizations require feedback and relevant information even more than money. Effect X addresses this information need by providing evaluation and capacity development consulting services to organizations around the world. Our academic background leverages the insights and rigor of leading evaluation theorists and our extensive background in professional philanthropy and marketing ensures practical usefulness. While we are excited about any new challenge, our work to date has focused on need assessments, program design, impact evaluation, faith-based programs and evaluating marketing and online communications.

Ekar Farm

Ekar Farm and Community Gardens is a communal urban farm, inspired by Jewish values. They work to build community, provide experiential and environmental education, and grow sustainably produced fruits and vegetables, expanding access to those in need.

Elevation Community Land Trust

Elevation Community Land Trust partners with local communities to ensure families can access opportunity through permanently affordable homeownership. ECLT helps stabilize families through the use of the community land trust (CLT) model, a proven asset‐building tool for lower income communities and communities of color that are at risk of displacement.

Engineers Without Borders USA

EWB-USA’s vision is a world in which the communities we serve can sustainably meet their basic human needs. Our community-driven development model empowers developing communities while simultaneously transforming EWB-USA members into global engineers who are equipped with both the technical and cross-cultural expertise to implement sustainable engineering solutions. As a result of EWB-USA’s ongoing projects, children can cross sturdy bridges to attend school, local clinics have consistent supplies of electricity, and families can access clean water.

Erin Dunlap – USAID

Erin Dunlap has 17 years of global health development experience in more than 30 countries, and is currently a Senior Technical Advisor in the Office of HIV/AIDS at USAID. She provides guidance to USAID HQ and Mission staff on the optimal use of expenditure, cost, and other program data, which informs the allocation of the U.S. Government’s strategic investments in global HIV/AIDS priorities. She was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nicaragua, and holds a BA from the University of Nebraska and MPP from George Mason University.

Esther Balami

Esther Balami is a lawyer with over nine years of experience in the humanitarian sector, working with displaced and vulnerable people in Nigeria. Currently, Balami’s work focuses on protection of the rights of displaced people in accordance with the law, seeking to ensure their access to basic services with a view of finding durable solutions to the displacement. Balami holds a master’s degree in International Development Law and Human Rights from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, and a Law degree and is passionate about development and human rights, especially improving the rights of displaced and vulnerable individuals.

Fatou Doumbia – Agile International

Agile International’s mission is to return Western Africa to food abundance by empowering local women farmers and restoring the cultural wisdom that underlies traditional sustainable agriculture. We seek to break free from the endless cycle of foreign aid and food imports by producing nutritious food, generating enough income to support and educate children, and preserving the cultures and customs that create strong families and communities

Global Livingston Institute

The mission of the Global Livingston Institute is to positively impact the health and vitality of communities in East Africa and inform GLI participants through research, exchange of ideas, and knowledge sharing. For GLI, all roads lead back to a very simple mission: Listen. Think. Act. Before we do anything we must first ask ourselves: have we first listened and spent time thinking, before taking action? We believe this mission has the capacity to help change how people talk and think about international development and East Africa.

Global Seed Savers

Global Seed Savers is an International Development non-profit organization committed to building food and seed sovereignty. Currently, their work is focused in the Philippines and executed in close partnership with Global Seed Savers Philippines (Philippines Counterpart NGO). Through educating and encouraging farmers to return to the historical practice of saving seeds they are no longer dependent on purchasing seeds after each planting and forced to use harmful chemicals to grow their seeds. Through Global Seed Savers education and training programs, Filipino Organic Farmers gain the hands-on skills and knowledge needed to propagate, store, save, and sell their own regionally adapted organic seeds. This enables farmers to be self-sufficient and ensures that organic seeds are more readily available throughout the Philippines. Visit their website to learn more.

Hand in Hand International Adoptions

Hand In Hand has been offering child welfare services around the globe since 1974. Their mission is to provide the necessary foundations for orphaned children to develop to their fullest potential. Their services are focused on finding them permanent families through adoption, advocating for children’s rights, supporting orphanages, training families and assisting children and communities internationally.

Heart of the West Counseling, LLC

In the United States, Heart of the West provides an array of educational and mental health services to children and their families, adults going through life transitions, nature connection adventures to individual and groups, and well-being consulting to communities. Overseas, Heart of the West consults to communities and organizations in need of early childhood development expertise and trauma-informed best practices. The founder of Heart of the West Counseling also runs The Two Lilies Fund whose mission is : “children in bloom all over the world.

Hope Shines

The mission of Hope Shines is to improve and enhance the lives of impoverished, disadvantaged and marginalized orphans in Rwanda, Africa. We support health and education programs for 150-200 orphans through healthy child initiatives, after-school tutoring programs, and annual summer mentoring camps. Hope Shines offers communities continuous opportunities for empowerment, encouragement, and supplementary education through meaningful activities with strong foreign and local role models. Our approach is to develop and foster relationships at home and abroad with the ultimate goal of maintaining and promoting sustainable programs that improve the lives of the vulnerable and hopeless.

Humanitarian Engineering at Colorado School of Mines

The Humanitarian Engineering program at Colorado School of Mines trains engineers to serve communities by co-creating socially responsible, just and sustainable solutions. Our students are looking to connect with working professionals for career and paid internship opportunities, and each year we bring in over 100 projects for engineering design students to work on. If you have a design-focused project that could benefit from a multi-disciplinary team of students over the course of a single semester or an entire year, please contact us. Our program brings together engineering and social science professors to transform engineering by changing the ways engineers are taught to think, define, and solve problems. We offer two undergraduate minors and a Master’s degree, empower faculty to transform their teaching, bring world class speakers to Mines, and conduct research that addresses some of the biggest challenges facing engineers.

iDE

More than 70 percent of the world’s poorest people are small-scale farmers. For many of them, access to irrigation water provides a substantial productivity gain and increase in food production. iDE views productive water as the entry point to creating income opportunities for these 900 million people. We identify locations where improved access to water can have a positive impact, and then offer affordable technologies for lifting, storing, and distributing that water. iDE also looks for ways to reduce on-farm costs and increase margins available from market access and post-harvest activities.

Impact Advisors

Impact Advisors partners with nonprofits and social enterprises to develop and expand their impact.
It accomplishes this through a fractional, interim or project engagements that 1. shore up the traditional core business competencies needed to assure healthy nonprofits, and 2. consider enhancements to the current delivery model.

Areas of engagement typically include communications and content creation (narratives, storytelling, report writing, donor communications, board communications), development strategies (capital campaigns, annual funds), project management (IT projects, capacity building), general consulting (organizational health, strategic planning) and entrapreneurship (developing channels to monetize nonprofit intellectual property).

Inside ESG

Inside ESG is a podcast, YouTube channel and blog for global companies working to decarbonize, enhance economic impacts, and work towards the Sustainable Development Goals more broadly. In addition, Inside ESG offers training and a community of best practices for boards, practitioners, investors and strategists.

International Association for Rural and Urban Development – IARUD

IARUD’s mission is to eliminate poverty, certain health risks, and improve the overall quality of life, through education. The education efforts focus on the most needful members of West African countries. These are primarily at risk young adults, orphans,underprivileged kids and single mothers who lack the support from a husband.
The efforts are to give general education to the young, vocational training to the older, and household home making skills to the mothers. Sadly, many mothers are never taught such basics as home making skills or some aspects of child care. Education on public health threats such as AIDS and STDs are within the scope of IARUD’s efforts as well.
The purpose of IARUD is to take, any action of general interest that can contribute to the development and progress of rural and urban communities in poor countries particularly and in the world in general.

International Coach Federation of Colorado

ICF-CO is committed to the advancement of professional excellence in coaching. Their mission is to uphold the ICF Code of Ethics and Standards, promote mastery of the ICF Core Competencies, support the health, growth and success of their members, provide educational resources, programming and tools in support of professional excellence, demonstrate the value of professional coaching, engage members to create innovative partnerships and programs, and champion access to professional coaching.

Janina Acevedo-Yates

Collaborating as a Senior Learning Specialist on the Learning and Leadership Development team at EnCompass LLC, Janina Acevedo-Yates brings over 10 years of experience working as an instructional designer, project manager, trainer, and facilitator. Janina has supported the design of face-to-face workshops, e-learning modules, virtual sessions and leadership development tools for clients such as the International Organization for Migration (IOM), World Health Organization (WHO), and United States Agency for International Development (USAID). She has facilitated and produced global-level leadership design rollouts for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the United States Department of State (DOS) and the United Nations Secretariat, as well as their implementing partners. One of Janina’s passions exists in creating participatory sessions related to leadership, grounded in adult learning theory and appreciative inquiry. Janina’s content specialties include gender; working with supervisors and heads of offices to strengthen leadership skills; life skills/behavior change programs; cross-cultural training; and non-formal education. Integrating these content areas into participants’ technical and sector work has been an area of focus in Janina’s training designs and deliveries.

Janina is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer who served in Botswana and El Salvador; she holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Latin American Studies and Political Science from the University of Arizona and a Master of Arts degree in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University’s School of International Service.

Kern Design Lab

Kern Design Lab is a woman-owned collective of creatives focused on strategic thinking, accessibility, inspired design, and a passion for helping organizations that promote social progress. We believe that the diverse knowledge and experiences our clients bring to our work are invaluable and that stakeholder involvement—listening to, learning from, and adapting to real experiences of real people—is critical to developing effective communication strategies. Our team works as an extension of yours to provide a range of marketing services, including graphic design, web and digital marketing, branding and identity, strategy and content development.

KGSA Foundation

The KGSA Foundation partners with the Kibera Girls Soccer Academy (KGSA) to provide access to free secondary school education for girls living in Kibera, Nairobi – one of Africa’s largest informal settlements. Through financial and other resources, we are facilitating the holistic education of 130 girls every year. KGSA’s academic and extra-curricular programming, with supporting nutrition, healthcare, and mentorship initiatives, unlocks potential, expands opportunities, and enables each student with the ability to shape her future. Together with KGSA, we are working to break the cycle of poverty for the girls and their families, and empower their local community to help create a stronger, more resilient Kibera. We believe local problems need local solutions. We believe in the power of the #girleffect. Since 2006, KGSA has graduated over 340 students and helped 60 pursue higher education.

Konektid

Konektid is a US small business that supports new and established USAID partners on their work with USAID. We support new and underutilized partners to assess their fit for the USAID market, and to design and implement their USAID partnering strategies.

Kuda Vana Partnerships

Kuda Vana Partnership empowers the most vulnerable children of Zimbabwe to not just survive, but thrive. Kuda Vana is not your typical orphanage. Our local staff and leadership provide whole-person care to each child, including love, nutrition, security, healthcare, education, life-skills and spiritual and emotional guidance – enabling them to live more independent, dignified, and enriched lives.

Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking

The Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking (LCHT) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to compel data-driven actions to end human trafficking by conducting research; training service providers, law enforcement and other professionals/first responders; and educating the public. Ours is not a laboratory of beakers and burners, but rather a laboratory for the exchange of ideas and collaboration. We invite you to join the conversation; bring your experience, knowledge, and passions as we work toward solutions!

Lauren Gutierrez

Lauren Gutierrez is a queer, Xicanx abolitionist social worker with a bachelor of science in psychology and is a future graduate of a master’s in social work degree at MSU Denver. Lauren has expertise in creating and supporting non-police public health and safety systems with a background in case management, direct care, training and development, systemic level change, and more. Currently, Lauren is the Director of Community Resilience at the Denver Alliance for Street Health Response and a service provider/consultant for the Denver Support Team Assisted Response (STAR) Network. In these roles, Lauren has created a mobile case management program for people in Denver who are experiencing homelessness, strengthens community services through the STAR Network, and creates/supports alternatives to policing and jails.

Literacy Coalition of Colorado

The Literacy Coalition of Colorado is a resource for adult education in Colorado. We are an INFORMATION HUB for adults to find classes (GED prep, ESL, Citizenship prep), for volunteers to find opportunities, and for adult education providers to network. We TRAIN volunteers and TEACH adult learners. We DEVELOP CURRICULUM accessible to early-literacy adults. We have a learner-centered vision: To ensure that adult education is available to all who seek it.

Macs Adventure

The leading self-guided walking and cycling specialist, Macs Adventure, offers over 600 exciting self-guided trips to 40 countries worldwide. Carefully planned itineraries are crafted by passionate travel enthusiasts who love sharing the secrets that make unforgettable travel moments.

MAIA

MAIA (formerly Starfish) unlocks and maximizes the potential of young women to lead transformational change. The program targets girls who are otherwise unable to continue their studies beyond the 6th grade and empowers each to become a “Girl Pioneer” who trail-blazes an unprecedented trajectory. Through an integrated approach, MAIA is educating and empowering the next generation of indigenous female leaders in Guatemala. MAIA operates the Impact School, a secondary school for girls that serves as a regional innovation platform for best-practices in girl-focused programming. MAIA is defined by its abundance-mindset, powerful local team, and responsive design. We believe that by combining our holistic mentorship program with a rigorous academic model, our Girl Pioneers will truly be able to realize their infinite impact.

Marisa Kellogg

Marisa is a trilingual International Development Professional specializing in youth and women’s empowerment. She received her MS in Global Studies and International Relations from Northeastern University, and BA in International Affairs from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the President of PridePads Africa, an international nonprofit that focuses on menstrual health and hygiene, girls’ education and women’s economic empowerment in rural Cameroon. Marisa deeply understands the need to invest in women and girls and amplify their voices to strengthen communities and achieve a sustainable and just world.

MarketShare Associates

MarketShare Associates partners with businesses, development agencies, and donors alike to address the most pressing barriers to equitable economic development. We help clients facilitate positive change by unlocking creative ideas, building local capability, enhancing learning systems and securing sustainable results. We see working with partners that operate (or seek to operate) as market facilitators and catalysts to improve market systems and empower people to take advantage of economic opportunities, as the most effective agents of lasting change.

Mwebaza Foundation, Inc

The Mwebaza Foundation’s mission is to enrich the relationships among our Colorado and Uganda partner schools through cross-cultural exchange and service-learning that enhances educational opportunities, fosters a healthy learning environment, and promotes self-sufficiency.

Needle & Frame

Needle & Frame is a filmmaking + arts collective that builds solidarity, unites communities, and inspires courageous action toward positive social transformation. They are reimagining how production companies tell and share stories as an inclusive, equitable, just, and ethical community of artists and storytellers who create meaningful projects rooted in activism and deep intention.

Needle & Frame collaborates with nonprofit organizations and socially conscious businesses to build their communities and amplify their work through creative storytelling processes. They work with their clients to ensure fair and accessible rates. Needle & Frame’s tailored consulting meets the unique needs, strengths, resources, and talents of their clients, weaving in participatory filmmaking methods and community-driven approaches. Their consulting offerings provide a meaningful and empowering experience for their clients that leaves them with an inspiring story they can share with their communities for fundraising, advocacy, and/or educational purposes.

NIVAS

NIVAS helps families in Nepal build capacity and autonomy through the process of home ownership. From advocating for land acquisition, to learning earthquake resilient construction techniques, to setting bricks, each step is a move toward stability and safety.

Northeast Transportation Connections

We work with Northeast Denver to advocated and educate around alternative transportation options.

NovoVigeo Consulting LLC

NovoVigeo Consulting, LLC (NovoVigeo) is a strategy, development, and transformation consultancy.

We enable clients to be more effective, achieve transformation, and deliver even greater mission impact. We do this by helping them cultivate strategy, culture, and change superpowers enabling relevance, results, and resilience – making employees, organizations, and communities better. We work across the private, public, academic, and non-profit sectors; and we get even more excited when working with them all at once on a collective impact initiative. We have a special passion for supporting mission-driven organizations including international non-governmental and faith-based efforts advancing education, social entrepeneurship and innovation, social justice, and humanitarian and medical relief, among others.

OMNI Institute

The OMNI Institute is a 501c(3) non-profit social science consultancy that accelerates positive social change by supporting the public, nonprofit, and philanthropic sectors with integrated research and evaluation, capacity building, and data utilization services.

One Earth Future Foundation

One Earth Future (OEF) is an incubator of innovative peace-building programs. OEF designs, tests and partners to scale programs that work hand-in-hand with communities to eliminate the root causes of war. Each of the programs in the OEF portfolio has been designed and iteratively tested to work for a sustainable solution to a specific problem, while gathering and sharing lessons learned about cooperative governance with sister programs and external partners more broadly. Whether working with networks of multi-sector collaborators to support grassroots coalitions in Colombia, connecting Somali businesses to lenders abroad, or working toward cooperative solutions to maritime security, One Earth Future is committed to its vision of sustainable peace through collaboration and cooperative governance.

Otisa Eads

Otisa Eads is an HR & Systems Strategist Consultant to help established business owners create systems that optimize their business for growth and expansion. In addition, Otisa loves creating strategies with start-ups, nonprofits, and business owners who want to expand their choices with new aligned and effective solutions to the problems in their business. In her HR expertise, she specializes in creating strategies, on-boarding systems, and leadership development coaching & training. Otisa is passionate about organizational culture and DEIJ when she is working with clients and speaking at events.

Partners of the Americas – CO Chapter

The Colorado Chapter of Partners of the Americas envisions a world where volunteerism and partnerships empower and sustain communities and individuals. Our mission is to connect people and organizations across and within borders to serve and change lives. Grounded in values of Service, Partnership, Impact, Resilience, Respect, Empowerment, and Sustainability, we empower individuals and groups to learn, grow, and serve their local communities through mutually beneficial, multicultural relationships. With a commitment to long-term results and community-led solutions, we strive for lasting impact, ecological protection, and climate change preparedness.

Patty Breech

The Purpose Collective is a digital marketing consulting firm with extensive experience in the nonprofit world. It knows that the average nonprofit professional is passionate about their cause, but also facing limits on staff, time, and money. The Purpose Collective can help tell your story online in a way that creates more engaged supporters, so that you have more time to focus on your mission, and can provide social media, email marketing, web design, and database services.

Paul Adkins

Paul Adkins joined Management Sciences for Health (MSH) as a Security and Compliance Specialist in November of 2022. MSH is a global nonprofit advisory organization that provides governments, health organizations, and the private sector with strategies, tools, and management support to effectively and efficiently deliver high-functioning health systems. As a Safety & Security Specialist, Adkins works closely with local staff in over 20 countries around the world to help ensure the safety of MSH staff as they travel to partner countries to implement MSH’s projects.

PeaceJam Foundation

PeaceJam’s mission is to inspire and mobilize a generation of young leaders to create positive change in themselves, their communities, and the world through the inspiration and guidance of Nobel Peace Laureates. At the core of this mission is the belief that peace is possible and that it can be achieved by empowering young people to become peacebuilders. How we do it:
– Nobel Peace Laureates – The world’s most powerful and courageous role models.
– Award-winning curriculum that develops six essential competencies.
– World-class youth leadership events designed by our Nobel Peace Laureates to awaken purpose, teach peace, and bring joy to the hard work of changing the world.
– Our Billion Acts of Peace Campaign that gives youth a process, platform and community to develop their service-learning projects and campaigns to change the world.
More than 1.3 Million youth in over 40 countries have participated in the PeaceJam program and each has effected change in their corner of the world – some on the forefront of movements that are changing the world.
“It seemed like a crazy idea when we started back in 1996, but PeaceJam has gained an incredible momentum and has made a huge difference in the lives of so many young people by giving them hope and direction. It is one of the most transformational programs for young people that I have ever seen and been part of.” -Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu

Pious Musonda

Pious Musonda is a fifth year medical student at the Copperbelt University in Zambia. He is passionate about AntiMicrobial Resistance (AMR) and is currently enrolled in a program run by Student’s against Superbugs training young students from around africa to be AMR Ambassador. He is also passionate about public speaking and has served in the Debate Society at his institution where he has been part of several training of fellow students on public speaking. He recently spoke at the 2022 Posner Center Symposium on a panel regarding public speaking in post colonial Africa.

ReachWell

ReachWell is equitable community engagement. It provides an accessible platform for families and providers to easily engage one another. With ReachWell, families have access to the academic and social assistance tools and resources they require to support their students’ learning needs, to enhance their overall well-being, and to have their voices heard in their communities. Schools and non-profits effectively connect with families regardless of language, literacy, technical ability, or income.

REDF

RENEW Capital

The vision of RENEW Capital is to change the way the world engages Africa—from a place of giving to one of investing. Renew Capital invests capital into African opportunity while building the ecosystems and infrastructure needed to make these investments possible.

Rooted Wisdom Africa (Formerly Into Your Hands-Africa)

Rooted Wisdom Africa, formerly Into Your Hands Africa, works in rural Uganda, where community members live on less than 49 cents per day. The organization strives to interrupt this cycle of poverty by working with local leaders to implement education and business development programs (with a primary focus on agriculture). While many organizations depend on an influx of foreign workers and investment, Rooted Wisdom knows that communities want to create value and improve their circumstances – they help them start that journey.

Since its inception, Rooted Wisdom has worked with local partners to send students to school, nurture local leaders, provide skills-based training, and facilitate sustainable enterprise projects as requested by the communities we serve. Their commitment is to create and sustain positive economic change by galvanizing the resources, and support communities need to succeed and cultivating a sense of ownership over both programs and their futures. Where they work, each region is considered its own ecosystem in which resources are shared, community participation is encouraged, exit strategies are developed, and impact is illustrated on a larger scale, allowing communities, with a jumpstart from their support, to take a systems approach to poverty alleviation and ultimately bring about corresponding positive changes in education and economic self-sufficiency.

Rotary Club of Five Points, Denver

Ryan Fila

Ryan Fila’s main goal is to approach life from a place of love, and allow the expressions to grow from that place. Right now, the expressions come through as creative storytelling, curated community gatherings, and marketing. Over the past few years, Fila has been blessed to tell stories of beautiful souls in Haiti, Ukraine, Colombia, Kenya, and Perú through photo and video. Through this community, he is really excited to meet and drop-in with other service focused humans.

SDB Missions

We will mobilize SDBs all over the world for effective missions work. We will come alongside SDBs to recognize and leverage how God has resourced and positioned them to build His kingdom reign – with a strategic focus on reaching unreached people groups.

Shadhika

Shadhika provides funding and support to women-led, locally controlled non-profits in India working to empower at-risk girls so that they — and India – can realize their aspirations for a better future. We seek to break the cycle of poverty and address gender inequality in India by investing in the education, empowerment and economic self-sufficiency of girls.

Soccer Without Borders

Soccer Without Borders uses soccer as a vehicle for positive change, providing newcomer refugee, asylee, immigrant, and marginalized youth with a toolkit to overcome obstacles to growth, inclusion, and personal success. SWB programs integrate soccer, education, and community to empower youth to become positive change agents in their community, with national and international programs serving thousands of youth annually. Our programs help youth develop resilience, leadership, and life skills within the context of a strong, supportive network of peers and caring adults.

Space for Humanity

Space for Humanity (S4H) is working to expand the global perspective as the first non-profit gateway to space. Our mission is to democratize access to space by providing all expenses paid trips — where anyone, from any walk of life, can apply for an opportunity to experience the Overview Effect: the cognitive shift in awareness that occurs when a human being looks down on the Earth from space. Upon their return, each citizen astronaut will share that experience through a social impact ambassadorship with their communities and beyond. Through this unique program, we believe that we can generate creative solutions to some of the world’s most intractable problems.

Streets Hope/Voluntad

Voluntad provides services to support and empower survivors of all forms of human trafficking. Voluntad works to bring awareness and education to our community in the fight against exploitation and human trafficking through direct services and advocacy.

Syah B. Consulting / Deep Dive DEI, LLC

Syah B. Consulting is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion service organization aimed to equip leaders with the skill to revolutionize their workplace culture to be more empowering, sustainable, and effective for all team members. Through our Deep Dive DEI modality, they create transformative experiences that will challenge participants to integrate social justice concepts and empathy skills into their personal and professional lives.

TechNation Careers

TechNation Careers is a Colorado non-profit focused on closing the wage gap for refugees and immigrants. We are a workforce development organization focused on training and job placement in the IT industry. Our ultimate goal is to create New American entrepreneurs who, in turn, influence and hire the next generation of newcomers.

The Montibon Company

The Montibon Company (TMC) provides marketing and communications consulting for scientists, researchers and environmental and social justice organizations to maximize social impact, produce effective messaging, expand audiences and realize their vision. This includes strategic identity and brand development.

Roy Montibon is a serial entrepreneur, consultant, corporate executive, designer, educator and community organizer with over 20 years experience assembling and directing teams to realize complex national and international projects. Clients include educational institutions, Fortune 1000 corporations, major consulting firms, science-based start ups, arts organizations, state and municipal governments and non-profits. He recently earned a Graduate Certificate in Social Justice from Harvard/HES and is currently a Master’s Candidate (ALM) in Anthropology at Harvard University with an emphasis on Technology, Indigeneity and Human Rights. Montibon is currently developing high-tech authenticity and provenance systems to combat counterfeiting and international fraud against Indigenous artists.

He has taught at UCLA, UC Irvine and Chapman University and helped grow the UCLA Extension Media Arts program into the leading program in the nation during the ’90’s. Montibon has produced and directed a number of international design symposia at UCLA and UC Irvine and has taught and mentored over 6,000 undergrads, graduate students and working professionals. In Downtown Los Angeles, Montibon founded what became the largest and most successful art walk in the nation. He currently runs the Entrepreneurs for Social Impact program at United World College USA, one of the top IB schools in the world. UWC was recently nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize—twice in three years.. He has been engaged in successful Public Policy work and has served on the Governor’s Policy Council for Food, Hunger and Agriculture and on the NM First Food, Hunger, Water, Agriculture Policy Workgroup in New Mexico.

The Road to Hope

The Road to Hope builds self-sustaining communities through partnering with individuals and organizations in the U.S. and Haiti to learn and build mutually supportive relationships. We believe in bridging the distance between communities globally, which is why we partner with communities throughout the U.S. and Haiti to provide in-person and digital cultural experiences and outreach for students, community leaders, musicians and other interested parties. We invest in food, agriculture, education, music, the arts, and water and sanitation programs in the communities we serve.

The Sarara Foundation

The Sarara Foundation is building sustainable communities for the next generation by working with indigenous communities in East Africa to integrate solutions across five areas of life: Education, Healthcare, Food & Water, Energy, and Communications.
The partnership between The Sarara Foundation and The Association Montessori Internationale has designed, developed and piloted the world’s first nomadic Montessori program.

The Small World USA

The Small World USA works in Himalayan regions, including Nepal, to:

Empower local communities by enabling self-reliance and active community participation in basic infrastructure projects and beyond
Provide access to education for children, especially girls
Support women’s empowerment programs

We envision a world where girls have equal access to education, where they are given the space to grow through opportunity and the cultivation of confidence, knowledge and skills. We envision a world where local communities are empowered to be their own change makers. We envision a world where women are empowered to provide the positive impact that they are all capable of bringing to their families and communities.

The Village Institute

The Village Institute is a holistic family support center for refugee and immigrant families in Northwest Aurora that helps families build wealth, worth, and wellbeing by bringing family advocacy, resource navigation, career readiness training, mental health services, early childhood education, and community-building events all under one roof. Its mission is to cultivate a multigenerational ecosystem which uplifts the power of refugee and immigrant families and brings them closer with their neighbors.

The Women’s Bakery

The Women’s Bakery is an education-centric social enterprise committed to empowering women and developing women-owned businesses. TWB works to improve nutrition and socio-economic standing of women across East Africa. TWB offers 185+ hours of business, baking and life skills training, access to resources, start-up capital, and on-going support to develop local bakeries.

THIRD SIGHT Strategies

THIRD SIGHT is an International boutique consulting firm dedicated to helping nonprofits and NGOs build and sustain their capacity to expand the impact of their mission. We work through, for and most importantly with the communities we have the privilege to serve.

Through a three-pronged approach that combines evaluation (HINDSIGHT), assessment (INSIGHT), and strategy development (FORESIGHT), we develop well-informed, collaborative and often bold pathways to sustainable growth and improved outcomes. Services include: NONPROFIT/NGO/FOUNDATION Strategy, Sustainability; Program Development/Expansion, Startup.

THIRD SIGHT encourages organizations to see beyond perceived limitations to the true potential of their impact.

TopSource Worldwide

We power your NGO expansion with our extensive global entity, EOR, and payroll services for non-profit organizations. We understand the challenges you face and our experts can help you optimize international operations setup, reduce administrative costs and manage overseas staff more cost-effectively.

Trees, Water & People

At Trees, Water & People, our mission is to improve lives by helping communities to protect, conserve, and manage their natural resources.

University of Denver, Josef Korbel School of International Studies

The Josef Korbel Office of Career and Professional Development deploys a depth of experience and knowledge to help our students develop the career tools they need to succeed.

We seek to enhance career success by providing: Professional development through career coaching and targeted skills development training. Career education through courses, workshops and events and resources. Opportunities for connections between students, alumni and employers through targeted and proactive marketing and relationship management.

Up With Africa

Up with Africa focuses on the intersection of three issues- education in the developing world, refugees and the forced mass migration of people, and conservation of endangered species in Africa. Our approach involves coming alongside people and their communities to provide greater understanding of the problems at play and form networks to source solutions.

Upstream Education Inc.

Launched in 2016, Upstream Education’s mission is to make it as easy as possible to equip educators and students with the tools they need to reduce anxiety, strengthen resilience, and increase well-being. Upstream addresses the constraints of academic schedules through 93+ bite-sized, 5-10 minute lessons that come with scripts and matching presentations. As a Tier 1 intervention and proactive approach to mental health, Upstream reaches all students in a school building with teachers and support staff delivering and integrating the tools within classes, advisories, small groups, one-on-one, and even staff meetings. Upstream is partnered with 60+ districts and schools. 70% of Upstream students experienced a reduction in their stress and statistically significant reduction in their anxiety learning just one tool-per-week.

Water For People

Water For People works to build a world where all people have access to safe drinking water and sanitation, and where no one suffers or dies from a water- or sanitation-related disease. We work with people and partners to develop innovative and long-lasting solutions to the water, sanitation, and hygiene problems in the developing world. We strive to continually improve, to experiment with promising new ideas, and to leverage resources to multiply our impact.

Women’s Voices For The Earth

The mission of Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE) is to amplify women’s voices to eliminate the toxic chemicals that harm our health and communities. WVE imagines a world where the earth is taken care of, workers are paid well and treated fairly, and there are no toxic chemicals in homes, communities, or the environment. In this world, every point in the cycle of production and consumption – from extraction, to processing, to use, to disposal – contributes not just to a less toxic world, but to a thriving world. 

WorldDenver

To strengthen and expand the community of engaged global citizens and organizations in Colorado through education, cross-cultural exchange, and personal interaction with international leaders, professionals and students.

Zero Dropouts

Zero Dropouts (ZD) is inspired by the remarkable potential of youth. We are an educational social enterprise grounded in the belief that all students have the ability to be successful in education and life. In collaboration with school districts and community partners, ZD offers comprehensive, custom-fit services that assist students in high school completion as well as provide a bridge to post-secondary opportunities.