Organizational Partners
Black United Fund For Colorado
The mission of the Black United Fund of Colorado is to improve the quality of life for African Americans in Colorado, by providing financial and technical resources to eligible nonprofit organizations in Colorado committed to health and human services, arts, culture, economic development, and education. For more information go to www.blackunitedfundcolorado.org
Center for African American Health
The Center for African-American Health is a community-based organization providing disease prevention and disease management programs to African Americans living in the metro Denver area.
The Center partners with a wide variety of health-education and health-delivery organizations to develop and provide culturally appropriate disease prevention and disease management programs to thousands of African Americans each year. They offer programs on diabetes, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, prostate cancer, and colon cancer, as well as a wellness program for seniors, and health literacy training.
The Center also acts as the voice for African Americans in the public policy arena, advocating for system reforms that improve health care access and quality of care.
For more information go to www.caahealth.org
Civic Canopy
The Civic Canopy is an inclusive network of partners working together to build stronger neighborhoods, healthier communities, and a more civil society.
Through community dialogues, collaborative projects, and communication among network partners, the Canopy promotes a deeper understanding of civic challenges and more effective ways to solve them together. Just as the rainforest thrives beneath the protective network of trees in its canopy, civil society thrives when we connect the efforts of each to the good of all.
For more information go to www.civiccanopy.org
Prodigal Son
Their mission is to Strengthen and build up our communities by giving our youth, and future leaders, the positive tools and knowledge that they will need to succeed.
For more information go to www.prodigalsoninc.org
Stapleton Foundation
The Stapleton Foundation was one of the founding organizations of 2040 Partners for Health and over the past three years has provided funds, in-kind support, and staff to sustain and develop the organization. The mission of the Stapleton Foundation is to advocate, sustain and realize the principles of the 1995 Stapleton Master Development Plan, more commonly referred to as the "Green Book". Working with others, they will strive to create a community that is seamlessly connected to surrounding neighborhoods as well as a community that becomes a sustainable model in education, employment, open space, housing, diversity and sustainable development. The Stapleton Foundation operates various education, transportation, sustainability, and health programs in the same geographic area as 2040 Partners for Health making the partnership especially helpful to both organizations and our constituents. Specifically, the Stapleton Foundation's Be Well program (directed by Alisha Brown) is a day-to-day partner with 2040 Partners for Health in promoting and implementing health education and programs in the five neighborhood area. 2040 Partners for Health is proud to be a partner of the Stapleton Foundation.
For more information about the Stapleton Foundation go to http://www.stapletonfoundation.org/
To learn more about the Stapleton Foundation's health related programming and resources go to http://www.bewellconnect.org/
