We work alongside communities experiencing racial and economic disparities to create lasting systems change for the well-being of children and families.
Our Mission is to make this a better world every day, every way, to do good, feel good and to pass it on through our work. We partner with innovative and transformative organizations whose programs are sustainable, regenerative and which have measurable and beneficial results
WHY: We believe in the promise of Colorado and the potential of Coloradans because courageous leadership benefits every community in our state. By investing in people, programs, and organizations, we provide a foundation for transformational impact and community building. MISSION: Connect and build up Colorado’s doers and difference makers. WHO WE ARE: At Boettcher, we believe in the promise of Colorado and the potential of Coloradans. Every day we build up and connect doers and difference makers from across the state, working to elevate people, programs, and organizations. Because by investing in Colorado leaders, we provide a foundation for transformational impact and community building.
Created with gifts and bequests by Edsel and Henry Ford, the foundation is an independent, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization, with its own board, and is entirely separate from the Ford Motor Company. The trustees of the foundation set policy and delegate authority to the president and senior staff for the foundation’s grant making and operations. Program officers in the United States, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America explore opportunities to pursue the foundation’s goals, formulate strategies and recommend proposals for funding.
Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life.
Marguerite Casey Foundation exists to help low-income families strengthen their voice and mobilize their communities in order to achieve a more just and equitable society for all.
The aim is to address historical and systemic inequalities by providing underrepresented and excluded communities with a voice and meaningful participation in the governance and allocation of financial resources. This work should be in service of a more just economy - an economy that directly creates alternatives to income and wealth inequality by ensuring access to opportunities and financial resources. We understand that these inequalities have political and societal impacts in our current economic structure and believe that we cannot have a truly representative multiracial democracy without a just economy.
Michelson Impact Ventures is a social change fund deploying impact investment capital into mission-aligned, for-profit start-ups in education, future of work, healthcare, human-animal bond, veterinary health, and future of food.
