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| 2004 Annual Report
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Our 2004 Annual Report includes information on:
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| The Clayton Foundation
Early Childhood Education Resource Institute — for
a new staff position to expand strategic partnerships and
work on cross-program evaluation
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$25,000 |
Colorado Children's Campaign
General Support and Endowment — to increase funding
of the organization's endowment initiated by Chambers Family
Fund in 2001
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$50,000
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| Colorado Foundation for Families and Children
Colorado Early Childhood and School Readiness Commission —
for research and evaluation to develop a comprehensive state
early childhood system
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$5,000 |
| Educare Colorado
Educare/CORRA Merger — to support the merger to create
Qualistar Early Learning, dedicated to ensuring high-quality
child care and assisting parents in finding care for their
children
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$15,000 |
| Rose Community
Foundation
Denver Early Childhood
Education Summit — to convene and engage
business, civic and early childhood leaders to identify strategies
for quality early care and education for all children in Denver
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$5,000 |
City and County of Denver
Colfax Safety Project — for research and planning to
create a pilot program to address and treat the root causes
of prostitution and to reduce prostitution in Denver
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$15,000
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Colorado Alliance for Microenterprise Initiatives
Inaugural Report on Microenterprise in Colorado — for
research and publication of a review of the microenterprise
industry in Colorado and recommendations for ways Colorado
can improve opportunities for development
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$10,000 |
| Colorado Center on Law and Policy
Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute — for research and
planning to develop an online benefits calculator for Colorado
using the updated Self-Sufficiency Standard
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$13,000 |
| Colorado Women's Agenda
General Support — to support efforts to organize and
advocate for a public policy agenda for women and their families
across Colorado
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$25,000 |
Colorado Women's Hall of Fame
General Support — to support their work to educate society
about the ways women have created, shaped and changed our
state and nation's history
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$1,000 |
Global Fund for Women
General Support — for women's organizations around the
world working to address critical issues such as gaining economic
independence, increasing girls' access to education and preventing
violence against women
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$10,000 |
Afghanistan Projects — to support
organizations serving women and girls in Afghanistan
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$3,500 |
Secure
Source
General Support — for start-up
funding to create this national organization to address the
need for a reliable, affordable and long-term source of contraceptive
supplies for family planning organizations
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$25,000 |
Women's
Foundation of Colorado
Merle Catherine Chambers Center for
the Advancement of Women — for the capital campaign
to build a new home for the Women's Foundation of Colorado
and the Women's College
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$437,425 |
Women's
Funding Network
Quantum Leap Donor Circle —
for the Women's Funding Network to leverage its resources
to increase funding for the creation and support of women's
funds
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$10,000 |
Women's Health
Reproductive Equality Fund — to increase the fund that
subsidizes services for low-income women and for general support
to provide safe and affordable reproductive health services
to women in Boulder County |
$10,000 |
Girl Scouts-Mile Hi Council
Magic Sky Ranch Nature Center — to support construction
of an activity center with a space dedicated to environmental,
science, astronomy and math programs for girls attending the
new camp
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$16,667 |
Human Services, Inc.
Florence Crittenton School — to provide comprehensive
support services, child care and education for pregnant or
parenting teen mothers
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$15,000 |
| Mi Casa Resource Center For Women
Mi Carrera Program — for the OWL Managed Technology
Lab to develop computer and core technology skills of middle
school girls |
$20,000 |
| Communities Foundation of Oklahoma
Women's Foundation of Oklahoma — for matching endowment
funds, re-granting dollars and research and operations
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$165,000 |
| Montana Community Foundation
Women's Foundation of Montana — for matching endowment
funds,
re-granting dollars and operations
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$161,500 |
| Wyoming Community Foundation
Wyoming Women's Foundation — for matching endowment
funds,
re-granting dollars and operations |
$171,282 |
| Alice G. Reynolds Memorial Fund
Rebels Remembered — to complete an educational
video series and associated curricula for Denver Public Schools
documenting Denver's civil rights movement
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$10,000 |
The Bell Policy Center
General Support — for this research and advocacy organization
committed to making Colorado a state of opportunity for all
by reinvigorating the debate on policy issues affecting the
well-being of families and working adults
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$150,000 |
Opportunity Lost Report — for printing costs of a report
revealing the many and complex forces that keep working Colorado
families from earning enough to be economically self-sufficient
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$2,000 |
Changemakers
General Support — to encourage community based philanthropy
to increase resources available to not-for-profit organizations
working for social and economic justice and equality for all
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$10,000 |
Chinook Fund
Social Justice Institute — for strategic planning
to strengthen and expand this institute that teaches basic community
organizing and activism skills
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$2,500 |
Colorado Public Radio
Bridges Broadcast Center — to
support construction of a Music Reference Library in the new
broadcast center
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$25,000 |
| The Denver Foundation
Housing and Homelessness Funders' Collaborative —
for a pooled fund to invest in projects expanding
affordable housing and reducing homelessness in Colorado
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$25,000 |
Lundy Foundation
Partners for Collaborative Change — to develop
and sustain collaborative leadership in organizations working
together to strengthen the LGBT community in Colorado
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$10,000 |
NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Foundation
General Support — to promote access to reproductive
rights and health care through public education and community
organizing projects in Colorado
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$10,000 |
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Rosenwald Schools Initiative — to support the
preservation and renovation of schools for African American
children that played an important role in the civil rights movement
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$10,000 |
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Power the Promise Campaign — to develop six initiatives
that will build a legacy of social action and public education
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$20,000 |
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains
General Support — for comprehensive reproductive and
complementary health care services, and advocacy and educational
programs in the Rocky Mountain region
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$10,000
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Sylvia Clark Fund — to support the creation of this
memorial fund to ensure high quality reproductive care to low-income
and uninsured women
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$500 |
Political Research Associates
General Support — for research and public education
to rebuild and revitalize a progressive movement around a
common vision for an open, democratic and pluralist society
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$35,000
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Women Donors Network/Political Research Associates Study
Group — to support a partnership with Women Donors Network
to create a progressive donor education program
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$10,000 |
| Jean Hardisty
Legacy Fund — to support the creation of this legacy
fund for research projects
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$1,000 |
Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP)
Women and Religion Program — to support current activities
and partnerships that focus on women's leadership in religious
institutions, and policies in government and religious institutions
that affect women |
$50,000 |
In
addition to our priority areas, we award community grants at the
initiative of the family trustees. Our Community Grants Program
provides an avenue for their individual interests. Generally, these
grants are made for unique, one-time funding opportunities or for
ongoing support to arts, cultural, religious and educational organizations.
Community Grants Program support is given to organizations in which
the family takes an active interest or has an established connection.
| Colorado Ballet
General Support — to strengthen the ballet
as a world-class dance institution in Colorado
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$10,000 |
Colorado Symphony Association
General Support — for the symphony to continue to provide
a broad spectrum of quality musical performances and programs
in Colorado
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$10,000 |
Denver Art Museum
General Support — to support the museum's comprehensive
collection and exhibition of world art
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$5,000 |
Denver Center for the Performing Arts
General Support — for the Denver Center for the Performing
Arts and the Denver Center Theatre Company’s 2004-2005
seasons
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$5,000 |
Foothills Art Center
Carol and Don Dickinson Sculpture Garden — to
support the creation of a sculpture garden and outdoor event
and education terrace
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$10,000 |
| Music Associates of Aspen, Inc.
Aspen Music Festival and School — for this internationally
renowned classical music festival and school that presents
world-class music in an intimate, Colorado mountain setting
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$15,000 |
| Opera Colorado
General Support — to promote opera to the widest possible
audience through educational and cultural activities |
$15,000 |
North Shore Country Day School
General Support — for co-educational, college preparatory
education focused on community, democracy, artistic and physical
development and global consciousness for students in the Chicago
area
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$5,000 |
| Northwestern University
Transportation Center — for construction costs of Chambers
Hall and conferences and events celebrating the Center's 50th
anniversary
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$40,000 |
| University of Denver
Graduate School of International Studies — to support
the 2004 Korbel Dinner and the graduate school |
$5,000 |
Episcopal Relief and Development
General Support — for global
disaster relief and sustainable development programs that
identify and address the root causes of poverty
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$5,000 |
St. John’s Cathedral
General Support — to provide faith-based leadership and
resources to the community |
$60,000 |
The
Denver Foundation
For grants to support the arts
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$655,000 |
The
Denver Foundation
Hopkins Family Fund — to create
a fund in honor of Don Hopkins
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$10,000 |
$2,557
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$8,430 |
$49,836 |
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Our
first five years of creating women's funds culminated in 2004 with
the Wyoming Women's Foundation
and the Women's Foundation of
Montana reaching their initial endowment goals of $1 million.
They each raised $500,000, which was matched by Chambers Family
Fund. These foundations have secured permanent endowments dedicated
to lasting change for women and girls in Wyoming and Montana. The
new endowments will provide reliable, permanent sources of grants
to invest in lifelong economic self-sufficiency for women and brighter
futures for girls.
With
a $25,000 Venture Fund grant from the Women's Funding Network, the
three women's funds completed a collaborative marketing and public
relations plan to guide individual marketing efforts, including
the creation of websites and electronic newsletters to expand their
ability to communicate effectively and efficiently.
The
Merle Catherine Chambers Center
for the Advancement of Women was dedicated in September 2004. The
state of the art center on the University of Denver campus houses
the Women's Foundation of Colorado and the Women's College of the
University of Denver. Together at the Chambers Center, each organization
continues its individual efforts while mobilizing to promote a society
where the talents and skills of all women are valued, developed
and utilized.
With
the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation, we provided funding to the City
and County of Denver to develop a pilot program and create a multidisciplinary
treatment model for prostitutes in Denver. Based on best practice
research, the project is considering a residential program specifically
designed for prostitutes that provides the continuum of care they
need, including substance abuse treatment, childcare and employment
training. This program is part of a multi-city effort to improve
safety and enhance neighborhoods along the Colfax corridor from
Lakewood to Aurora.
The
right to control her reproductive destiny is a human right fundamental
to the well being of a woman. To address the increasing threats
to reproductive health and rights, we provided initial funding for
Planned Parenthood of America's Power the Promise Campaign.
This national campaign includes six major initiatives to ensure
the future of reproductive health care, including changing the way
Americans view sexuality through a new social marketing campaign.
We
supported the next step in promoting the use of Colorado's Self-Sufficiency
Standard by providing funding to the Colorado
Center on Law and Policy's Fiscal Policy Institute to research,
analyze and develop a plan for an on-line Self-Sufficiency Benefits
Calculator. The results of their research led us to bring together
a group of funders to support the development of a calculator for
Colorado. The calculator will increase access to Colorado's standard
by case managers, individuals and employers and provide accurate
information about the level of income required for families to become
self-sufficient, based on their family composition and geographic
location.
Partnering
with Rose Community Foundation, we funded the first-ever review
of the microloan and microenterprise industry in Colorado, which
was conducted by the Colorado Alliance for Microenterprise Initiatives
(CAMI). This inaugural report provides an historical review and
essential information about the use of microenterprise as individual,
community and economic development strategies in Colorado. CAMI's
report makes recommendations for improving and enhancing opportunities
for microenterprise development.
In
our ongoing commitment to early childhood education (ECE), we joined
five other foundations to fund a staff person for the Colorado Early
Childhood and School Readiness Commission. The Commission was established
during the 2004 legislative session to study, review and evaluate
school readiness and early childhood care and education and create
a comprehensive early childhood system.
In
2004, Chambers Family Fund and Rose Community Foundation published
Then and Now,
a report describing how funders collaborated to secure the future
of the Colorado Children's
Campaign by committing multi-year general operating support.
The report was distributed at the Grantmakers for Children, Youth
and Families conference and shared with funders interested in similar
collaborative efforts.
Our
goal to make children a top priority in Denver led us to support
the first Early Childhood Education Summit in Denver in February
2004. Attendees heard demographic and economic arguments for the
importance of ECE from leading national speakers and participated
in action teams. The summit convened 300 business leaders, elected
officials, nonprofit executives and community leaders and engaged
champions for quality early childhood education.
The
Clayton Foundation's Early Childhood Education Resource Institute
was created to improve professional development for early care and
education teacher training at Metro State College and the Community
College of Denver. We co-funded a new staff position to expand strategic
partnerships and work on cross-program evaluation. The new staff
will expand the Institute's partnerships with CCD and the Mayor's
Office, while investing leadership and energy in cultivating a strategic
partnership with Denver Public Schools.
In recognition
of her philanthropic leadership, Merle Chambers received two awards
in 2004. She was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame that
recognizes women who have made significant and enduring contributions
to their fields of endeavor, elevated the status of women and opened
new frontiers for women and society. Merle received the Josef Korbel
Humanitarian Award from the University of Denver's Graduate School
if International Studies that recognizes individuals who have given
concrete expression to the values underlying the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights through unusually generous philanthropic work within
the Denver community.
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| ASSETS |
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| Cash and Cash Equivalents |
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$ 615,961 |
Investments at Cost
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46,369,544 |
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TOTAL ASSETS
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$46,985,505 |
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UNRESTRICTED NET ASSETS
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$46,985,505 |
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FAIR MARKET VALUE OF ASSETS
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$57,219,394 |
REVENUES
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$8,265,786 |
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EXPENDITURES
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Grants Paid
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2,501,197 |
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Direct Charitable Activities
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110,906 |
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General and Administrative Expenses
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230,815 |
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Total Qualifying Distribution
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2,842,918 |
Investment Management Expenses
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227,185 |
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| TOTAL EXPENDITURES |
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3,070,103 |
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| NET REVENUES IN EXCESS OF EXPENDITURES |
$5,195,683 |
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