Weld Trust awards $7M in grants

GREELEY — The Weld Trust has awarded more than $7 million in grants, known as Flagship Grants and Key Funding Initiative grants. 

Flagship Grants are given to nonprofit organizations, schools, and government agencies for significant community projects in health or education in Weld County. These grants require additional funding sources for the project.

The trust awarded a $1.25 million Flagship grant to A Woman’s Place to support the new domestic-violence shelter it is building to replace its existing facility. The new safehouse will double the number of families the safehouse serves, with 16 client bedrooms, all of which will be ADA-accessible. The facility will have a communal dining and kitchen area, laundry facilities, a community living room, two children’s playrooms, a secured outdoor play area, plus meeting space including an intake room, an advocacy office and an overnight staff sleep room. 

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“Unfortunately, the need for more domestic violence emergency beds is significant,” said Weld Trust CEO Jeff Carlson. “The need is at an all-time high and the capacity of A Woman’s Place facility is not nearly enough to meet the demand. Funding for this capital project will build long-term sustainable shelter for survivors of domestic violence and their families.” 

The trust also issued a Flagship grant to Greeley-Weld Habitat for Humanity for $2.5 million to support the Hope Springs Community Development. Hope Springs will eventually provide 174 newly constructed Zero Energy Ready Homes for low-income families and individuals. The Hope Springs Development will occupy 42 acres, approximately two-thirds of which will be Habitat homes.

“It is exciting to see the partnerships created through this project,” Carlson said. “The Weld Trust endeavors to support collaborative projects to provide a substantial impact on the community. Greeley-Weld Habitat has done exactly that through partnerships with numerous businesses in this community to help with the construction of Hope Springs, and it has also successfully identified funding sources beyond Weld County to invest in the project.”  

In addition to the two Flagship grants, The Weld Trust also awarded strategic grants totaling $3.3 million to nonprofits and schools within health and education. The Weld Trust’s strategic grantmaking supports seven Key Funding Initiatives with four initiatives in health and three in education.  

Key Funding Initiative grants were:

• Arc of Weld County, Unified Basketball summer league, $8,500.
• Assistance League of Greeley, Warm Up Weld County, $20,000.
• Azteca Boxing Club, Boxing Club Youth, $60,000.
• Balon USA, Building Healthy Habits through Youth Soccer, $15,000.
• Brothers Redevelopment Inc., Housing Stability Resources in Weld County, $80,000.
• Carbon Valley Help Center, housing stability, $15,000.
• Catholic Charities and Community Services, Hospital to Housing Program, $73,122.
• Community Grief Center, Spanish speaking grief support groups, $12,000.
• Dayspring Christian Academy, band instruments, $29,143.
• Finally Home, wraparound support for foster, adoptive and kinship families in Weld County, $60,000.
• Forward Steps, growing and sustaining the Realizing Aptitudes Program in Weld County, $20,000.
• Generation Schools Network Inc., Weld County K-12 Career Exploration, $150,000.
• Hope House Northern Colorado, Teen Mom Access to Resources, $11,000.
• Hope House Northern Colorado, Teen Mom Mental Health Services, $10,000.
• I Have A Dream Foundation of Boulder County, Dreamer 2 Gen Programming, $50,000.
• Imagination Library Weld County, $88,700.
• Jobs of Hope, Path to Success: Comprehensive Program for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals, $75,000.
• Larimer County Partners Inc., Youth Mentoring and Prevention Programming, $50,000.
• Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains, Youth Employment Program, $10,633.
• Meals on Wheels of Greeley Inc., $25,000.
• North Range Behavioral Health, Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters, $120,000.
• Northern Colorado Christian Academy, Connect Literacy Program, $17,000.
• Northern Colorado Veterans Resource Center, Peer Support Navigator Program, $75,000.
• Pierce First United Methodist Church, Pierce Food Pantry, $45,000.
• Reach Out and Read Colorado, Ready to Learn from Day One: Supporting Weld County Children from Birth, $60,000.
• Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools, District 6 Career Explore Internship Program, $97,335.
• Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools, Elementary Launch into Athletics, $100,000.
• Sunrise Community Health, Sunrise general operations support, $675,000.
• United Way of Weld County Inc., Providers Advancing School Outcomes Institute, $100,000.
• United Way of Weld County Inc., Reading Corps, $50,000.
• Volunteers of America Colorado Branch, Colorado Rapid Rehousing for Reentry Plus, $250,000.
• Weld County 4-H Foundation, Weld County 4-H, $12,500.
• Weld Food Bank, Backpack Program, $125,000.
• Weld Food Bank, Agency Partner Support, $400,000.
• Weld Re-4 Educational Foundation, SmartLabs for two new elementary schools, $100,000.
• Weld Re-4 Educational Foundation, Welding program tools for Severance High School, $214,000.
• YMCA of Northern Colorado, Summer day camps, $15,000.