The mission of the Institute for Racial Equity & Excellence is to create inclusive environments and to ensure equity and social justice at all levels of society. We aim to change the hearts and practices of the workforce to enhance child, family, and community outcomes, especially of those working with communities of color and other marginalized groups.
Empleo provides on-demand support services to low-to-moderate income workers to get the help they need, when they need it, to keep them engaged at work.
Vibransy was founded with a single mission: to help improve and maintain the mental health and wellness of today’s youth. We understand the challenges young individuals face in navigating their emotions and finding a safe space to express themselves.
WISH Skin Labs is a fusion of modern and ancient healing wisdom from cultures around the planet, united and accessible and with synergy realizing the achievement of health and healing in a global culture of well-being in mind, body, and spirit.
Cybersecurity startup focused on digital identity security and privacy for employees.
Colorado “I Have A Dream” Foundation provides long-term, out-of-school programming and behavioral health services to youth and families from marginalized communities in Denver. Programming includes academic, emotional wellness, college & career development, and systems advocacy.
Curious Sunshine is a holistic wellness business that puts PLAY in the forefront of wellness. I created a methodology that helps bring adults back into a playful state of mind to help bring liberation, joy and new possibilities.
The primary goal is to address the housing needs of the residents who currently live in tents, campers, and RVs, offering them a more comfortable and permanent living solution.
Colorado Birth and Wellness is a holistic, family-focused wellness and birth center serving families from preconception through pregnancy and beyond with multiple locations.
The mission of Thriving Families is to empower women and non-binary parents and their families to thrive.
Abundant Black Health is a Black Women co-founded, Black People-led, spirituality-based, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that utilizes approaches based in African Diasporic wisdom and customs to increase the life-long use of optimal health practices by Black People.
Equitable Possibilities In Construction (EPIC): Address the underrepresentation of women, nonbinary people, and people of color in the construction industry.
Our desire is to bring our community together by transforming our community to recognize the brilliance in each neurodiverse learner’s mind, empower each child to use their strengths while finding their superpowers, and embrace their needs so today’s diverse learners can become tomorrow’s leaders.
WOMAN IN THE NATION, INC. is a social and entrepreneurial venture to create an indigenous dramatic TV or streaming series based in Colorado that employs our best women production talent.
CBAM’s mission is to increase opportunities for African American Artists and Arts Organizations through broad-based partnerships, collaborations, and events.
Echelle connects professional women by geography, industry, and identity in order to help more women and people who are non-binary ascend to capital-allocating and decision-making roles, and to find authentic community and fulfillment along the way.
AIARE’s Women’s Mentorship Program provides a multi-pronged approach to supporting women, non-binary, and genderqueer individuals in the snow and avalanche industry through professional training, scholarship funding, public events, and small group mentorship offerings.
SPEAK supports young women and gender expansive youth in self and civic advocacy. We create spaces where young people can speak out about things that are important to them, their communities, and our shared futures.
Focus Points’ mission is to build better communities by strengthening families. Focus Points is one of 35 Family Resource Centers in the state of Colorado, and a member of the Family Resource Center Association (FRCA).
Birth Equity Statewide Operations for Birth Centers (B.E.S.O!) exists to provide operational Infrastructure for a network of community-based birth centers in Colorado. BESO’s goal is to coordinate resource distribution, logistics, information, communications, and people, to build infrastructure for community birth and health care in Colorado.
BSI is a community and resource hub for individuals facing employment disadvantages. Many individuals with justice involvement, substance use history, or who may be experiencing homelessness face significant challenges to securing and maintaining gainful employment.
Bondadosa is a social enterprise reimagining the food ecosystem to be more just, kind, and sustainable. Founded in 2017, it has evolved from a quick-shopping and electric bicycle grocery delivery provider to a primary logistics and distribution partner for thousands of weekly customers in the State of Colorado.
Impacto offers advanced risk management solutions tailored for the oil and gas sector, facilitating enhanced efficiency, transparency, and a greater commitment to environmental and social responsibility.
ModBox Builders operates as a social venture, utilizing sustainable building practices to address housing challenges and promote social well-being. The mission centers around providing affordable, modular housing solutions that cater to the needs of marginalized communities.
Solutions.™ is a Public Benefit Corporation established for the purpose of offering handmade home goods, body goods, food, and care items for the stylish, discerning, and socially-conscious consumer while supporting the lives of those who are homeless or in other critical need situations through our low-barrier work program hub called ADay’sWork™.
Undestructable is a 501(c)(3) focused on helping survivors of domestic violence gain financial independence from their perpetrators through employment as well as promoting healing as they rebuild their own hearts, souls, and self-worth through the practice of sustainable craft/making/building/selling. It is our mission to provide a safe space for survivors of domestic violence to learn and gain skills sets that facilitate, not only a renewed sense of purpose and value, but are also translatable for future employment.
GoodHeart Collaborative is a Wellness-Tech company focused on supporting 1,000,000 female leaders of helping professions for long-term professional sustainability.
CampExperience Networks unites all women for free access to education, inspiration, and connections to support business and life. We use shared philanthropy as a business tool and our motto is Do Good & Have Fun. In 15 years we have raised over $1 million for diverse charities in Colorado and the world.
Established as a 501(c)(3) only in 2019, but built on many years of experience, the mission of Thriving Families is to empower women and their families to thrive. The central goals of our services are to 1) support positive, healthy family relationships and parenting, 2) prevent domestic violence and child maltreatment, and 3) promote positive development and outcomes for teen mothers, women, and children. Thriving Families engages families at the earliest beginnings, during pregnancy, which sets the stage for children’s futures.
Argento Studios are a women-led, women-owned production studio in Northern Colorado welcoming stories from and about BIOPC, LGBTQIA+, single moms, and underserved populations, but all humans are welcome to share their stories.
With more than two decades in the field of deaf education, Jennifer Cranston recognized the need to bring like-minded professionals from a variety of backgrounds together in order to broaden the support and services for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, their families, and the community members and professionals who work with them. In 2019, she founded the non-profit organization VALIDEAF.
Mother House is a shelter and donation program for pregnant people and parents of small children. Our flagship program is our Residential Program that provides shelter to pregnant people and mothers of small children. We also have program spaces for qualifying new parents who are working to reunite with an infant in foster care. Mother House provides case management to residents to help them advance towards their parenting and self-sufficiency goals.
Founded in 1986, PeaceWorks is a confidential resource to survivors of sexual assault, sex trafficking, and relationship violence: intimate partner violence and abuse, teen dating violence, and stalking. Inclusive services include: short-term shelter; 24/7 crisis response; residential, non-residential, and mobile trauma-informed advocacy; integrative wellness, and community awareness. PeaceWorks is 1 of 10 dual programs in CO servicing both sexual assault and relationship violence survivors, and 1 of 4 shelters in the state that allows pets to be sheltered with their families. PeaceWorks serves the central mountain counties of Park, Jefferson, and Clear Creek, moving clients forward, out of crisis – towards self-sufficiency and wellbeing.
Curls on the Block is an enrichment program for girls of all curls and colors to embrace, explore and empower their natural selves while working to increase engagement, investment, and commitment to careers in science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM).
Therapeasy is a mental health organization on a mission to connect you to your perfect therapist quickly and easily. We aim to improve wellbeing by helping patients find compatible providers who are a good fit logistically and personally. We believe strong therapeutic connections lead to better outcomes.
Clayton Academy has been Popping Up Learning Pods since the fall of 2020. It started in the founder’s neighborhood in a rented church, 30 elementary kids, and 10 “pod facilitators.” Facilitators support the virtual classroom teachers and the kids in-person. Currently, pods have popped up in communities that need it most. There are multiple pods in 2 large low-income apartment complexes. With the developer funding the team, a community organization offering lunch and facilitators supporting kids, we are doing what we can to offer school-aged youth an opportunity to get their work done and catch-up while parents go to work. We aim to benefit the whole community by hiring qualified residents to be facilitators and working with kids directly.
Botx Solutions, Inc is shining a light on food delivery. We are developing a platform for last-mile food delivery that consists of a smart, cooler-like box (Botx Manager) complete with cameras, freshness-tracking sensors, and UVC surface sanitation on-route with proprietary take-out containers (Botx boxes) creating a new level of consumer and producer confidence. By delivering the highest level of insight and control in the last-mile of prepared foods, we’re building the system necessary to correct the most atrocious inefficiency on the planet; food logistics. With our proprietary knowledge and real-time, per-meal control we can replace food waste with food security.
We’re a growing community of Asian & Pacific Islander (API) girls and women celebrating who we are by elevating our voices, exploring our identities, and caring for our wellbeing through the power of storytelling. We welcome anyone who identifies as a girl, gender nonconforming, queer, or transgender individuals of Asian, Pacific Islander, South Asian, or mixed descent. AGI currently centers around girls in middle school (grades 6-8). We’re still in the process of creating more programs & events for girls of all ages.
The mission of Dress for Success is to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and the development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.
Founded by thriving entrepreneur Shantelle Williams, Curl Rhythm LLC is a Colorado based startup company established on November 14, 2020, dedicated to empowering people of color through high quality naturally based hair and beard grooming products that promote longer, stronger, and healthier hair.
1 in 4 people have a disability yet do not have the same access or experiences as their able-bodied peers online or in-person. Summit Accessibility aims to change that. Summit Accessibility develops innovative products to create universally designed home and community environments that are accessible, ergonomic and aesthetic. Our flagship product is the Summit Table that has three axes of adjustability for persons of limited physical mobility. This allows a person to bring the table and its contents into reach with a touch of a button, increasing independence.
Space Development Ventures, LLC (SDV) is a woman led Colorado Corporation building the world’s first publicly accessible spaceflight training facility and cutting-edge research and development campus. SDV programs and apparatus will provide critical infrastructure to ignite the next generation of space capabilities, sustainable technologies, workforce development, and STEAM education.
EdCuration is a marketplace for instructional programs that aims to get better resources into classrooms faster to increase student success.
Athena Project was founded in 2012 to address the critical gender gap in the Denver theatre & artistic community. National studies conducted over the past 8 years have indicated that women’s creative endeavours continue to be under-represented in professional American theatre & other art disciplines. Furthermore, women’s presence in the theatre & broader artistic communities, tends to be limited to non-leadership roles resulting in the systematic silencing of women’s voices from our creative communities. We were established to correct this disproportionate representation of women in the arts. Our mission is to empower women through the arts. We envision a world with gender equity where women’s voices are valued and amplified in the arts.
Cor Defense is a nonprofit organization that provides trauma-informed defense training for survivors of sexual assault.
Founded in September 2016, our mission is to educate and inspire eaters by cultivating a conversation around the people and businesses changing the food system for good in order to grow the community for good food for all. Our current programs include Good Food 100 Restaurants List and Industry Impact Report; Good Food Farmer & Purveyor Guide; Good Food Farmer & Purveyor of the Year Award; Eat. Drink. Think. events; and H.U.G.S (Hospitality United in Good Service).
DreamSpring is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to increase access to business credit, make loans, and provide training and support that enables underserved entrepreneurs to realize their dreams and be catalysts for positive economic and social change. DreamSpring’s goal is for all entrepreneurs—regardless of income, gender, or race/ ethnicity—to have equitable access to affordable credit to start or grow a business, achieve financial security for themselves and their families, and create jobs in their communities.
Curious Sunshine is a holistic wellness business that provides products and services that explore mindfulness, play, and curiosity in communities of color. With our workshops, healing services, and products like our activity book we strive to help people cultivate liberation, authenticity, and joy in their lives.
Mindful Mamas is a mindfulness and self-care app for moms and moms-to-be. We launched on March 19, 2020 and are currently serving 65K+ mothers in over 50 countries. We teach mothers how to get in sips of self care throughout their busy days and have offerings for mothers in all stages of matrescence (the developmental stages of motherhood)— from trying to conceive through empty nesting.
CNRG Accounting Advisory, LLC. is an accounting firm dedicated to helping nonprofits connect their money to their mission.
We are leading the change-makers in our community and across the nation to end commercial sexual exploitation (CSE). Our research is used to reduce demand, convict traffickers, and decrease barriers for marginalized populations through evidence-based services.
Apte is SaaS software built to deliver proactive and intelligent analytics to the $2 trillion philanthropic sector.
A blog dedicated to amplifying the voices of womxn of color, asking and answering the question of “how do you say that” – “that” takes many forms based off each women blogger’s identity. Asking and answering this question elevates and validates BIPOC womxn and celebrates our stories. HDYST serves as an affirmation of our power. This platform honors the oppression we endure but highlights the resiliency and strength we build in community.
Dona Loca is: Sustainable, Organic, local, women founded and run Mezcal and Tequila.
Bright by Text is built to make the hardest job (caring for a young child) just a little easier with bite-sized information, activities, and connections to local services via text message. We partner with almost 100 community organizations to reach over 84,000 parents and caregivers where they are (their phone) with timely tips and local resources.
Focus Points Family Resource Center was founded in 1995 as a community resource with a mission to build better communities by strengthening families. The organization is one of a few Denver area nonprofits that has the expertise to meet the needs of the Latinx, immigrant, and refugee populations and has gained the trust of its community to provide meaningful, effective, and culturally appropriate services. With 25 years of experience serving and adapting to the needs of families, Focus Points is recognized by the community and our network of partner organizations as a provider of high quality, comprehensive, and culturally grounded services in Northeast Denver. The organization has a mutually trusting relationship with the community and a pulse on the evolving barriers that families face towards self-sufficiency and financial stability.
Local News Network is based in Durango, Colorado, and was co-founded by CEO Laurie Sigillito and COO Bert Carder. They have spent the last 2 years creating a scalable platform for revitalizing the local news across the country. Starting in micropolitan size towns in Colorado which have lost their local daily news and then expanding beyond, LNN’s goal is to help these towns bring back good quality local news which engages and celebrates the community, as well as providing local business opportunities, local jobs and helping the town retain more of their local advertising dollars.
Ruby’s Market is a multi-cultural artisan and food destination, incubating refugee, immigrant & indigenous entrepreneurs and supporting local businesses.
InScribe creates online communities of learners with their peers and the experts at their institutions to get help and stay connected.
