The Community Foundation serving Southwest Colorado is celebrating 25 years of supporting the nonprofit community in Southwest Colorado. One of the ways it will celebrate this milestone is to grant $25,000 to organizations serving a different sector for each quarter of 2025. The Foundation supports nonprofits serving in five counties, two sovereign nations and nine towns across the region, and quarterly granting will be distributed across the communities it serves.
For the first quarter, the Foundation supported nonprofits with a focus on basic needs, committing to providing 10 nonprofits with a grant from its SPUR Fund.
In addition to the money already committed by the Foundation, a donor in the community contributed $50,000 to further the impact of granting for the first quarter.
The Community Foundation will distribute $7,500 to each of these organizations: San Juan Public Health (Silverton, San Juan County); Good Sam (Cortez/Ute Mountain Ute); Mancos Food Share; Dolores Family Project; Dove Creek Care and Share Food Pantry; Healthy Archuleta; Pine River Shares (Bayfield, Ignacio, Southern Ute Tribe, La Plata County); Community Emergency Assistance Program and Housing Our Workforce Locally (Durango, La Plata County); and the Warming Center (Durango, La Plata County).
Quarterly funding will focus on a different aspect of community need for each granting cycle, and the grants are unsolicited.
To support the Community Foundation’s SPUR Fund with a donation or for more information, visit www.swcommunityfoundation.org.
