We Have Moved
On July 24th Chambers Family Fund moved to a new location.

We took advantage of our office move and our tenth anniversary to update our logo.

New home. New look. Same mission.

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Chambers Family Fund Wins Award for Outstanding Communications
Chambers Family Fund has been named a Bronze Award winner for excellence in communications by the 2005 Wilmer Shields Rich Awards Program. Sponsored by the Council on Foundations, the awards program recognizes effective communications efforts to increase public awareness of foundations and corporate giving programs. Chambers Family Fund received the award for its website. The award was presented at the 56th Annual Conference of the Council on Foundations in San Diego on Monday, April 11, 2005. Entries to the awards program included annual or biennial reports, newsletters, special reports, public policy campaigns and websites. This year 247 entries were submitted to the awards program.

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Wyoming and Montana Women's Foundations Meet the Challenge
The Wyoming Women's Foundation and the Women's Foundation of Montana are celebrating significant milestones. Their endowments recently topped the million dollar mark. Each foundation raised $500,000 that was matched by Chambers Family Fund to reach their initial endowment goals of $1 million each. Read more about the women's foundations clearing this hurdle in our Spotlight section.

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Colorado Children's Campaign Names Merle Chambers a "Champion for Kids"
On May 6, 2005 the Colorado Children's Campaign celebrated its 20th Anniversary of serving as the voice for Colorado's more than one million children. As part of its celebration, the Campaign named 20 Coloradans who have made a significant impact on the lives of Colorado's children. Merle Chambers was selected one of the 20 "Champions for Kids."

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Research Leads to Inclusiveness Conference
Chambers Family Fund supported The Denver Foundation's Expanding Nonprofit Inclusiveness Initiative in 2003. The Initiative was created to research best practices and to develop tools to help nonprofit organizations become more inclusive of people of color. The Initiative's research led The Denver Foundation and the Community Resource Center to co-host the Diversity and Beyond Conference held on July 21, 2005 in Denver. Chambers Family Fund sponsored this conference designed to encourage Colorado's nonprofits to embrace the concept of inclusiveness and to provide an opportunity for organizations to explore issues of inclusiveness as they relate to organizational effectiveness and healtheir communities.

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Early Care & Education
Colorado Children’s Campaign
This state-wide organization works to mobilize individuals and organizations to think and act on behalf of children, with particular attention to the health, education and safety of children most at risk.

Qualistar Early Learning
Qualistar Early Learning is dedicated to improving child development and age-appropriate learning experiences for all children by collaboratively creating a state-wide system that promotes high-quality child-centered care, supports and empowers parents as teachers and decision makers, supports and empowers child care providers and is adequately funded and permanently sustainable.

Annie E. Casey Foundation
AECF works to build better futures for disadvantaged children and their families in the U.S. and foster public policies, human service reforms and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families.

Kids Count
Kids Count is a national and state-by-state project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation to track the status of children in the United States. The annual KIDS COUNT Data Book uses the best available data to measure the educational, social, economic and physical well-being of children state by state.

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Women & Girls
Gender Matters: Funding Effective Programs for Women and Girls (*PDF) is a June 2001 research report by Molly Mead, EdD, of Tufts University, available for download. *PDFs require the Acrobat Reader.

Girls Inc.
Girls Inc. is a national nonprofit youth organization dedicated to inspiring all girls to be strong, smart and bold. Girls Inc. provides educational programs to millions of American girls, particularly those in high-risk, underserved areas. Major programs address math and science education, pregnancy and drug abuse prevention, media literacy, economic literacy, adolescent health, violence prevention and sports participation.

Ms. Foundation
As the country’s first national, multi-issue women’s fund, the Ms. Foundation directs resources of all kinds to cutting-edge projects that nurture girls’ leadership skills, protect the health and safety of women and provide low-income women with the tools to lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

NARAL Pro-Choice America
NARAL Pro-Choice America protects and preserves the right to choose while promoting policies and programs that improve women's health and make abortion less necessary. NARAL Pro-Choice America works to educate Americans and officeholders about reproductive rights and health issues and elect pro-choice candidates at all levels of government.

For information about NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado please visit their website.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Planned Parenthood provides comprehensive reproductive and complementary health care services, advocates for public policies which guarantee the privacy and rights of each individual, provides educational programs and promotes research and the advancement of technology in reproductive health care.

For information about Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains please visit their website.

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Research & Public Education
The Bell Policy Center
The Bell is a nonpartisan think tank committed to making Colorado a state of opportunity for all, regardless of race or economic background. The Bell seeks to reinvigorate the debate on issues affecting the well-being of Coloradans and to promote policies that open gateways to opportunity.

Colorado Center on Law & Policy
CCLP is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that advocates on behalf of the poor, working poor and other vulnerable populations. CCLP promotes justice and economic security for lower income Coloradans through legislative, administrative and legal advocacy.

The Institute for Women’s Policy Research
IWPR is a public policy research organization dedicated to informing and stimulating the debate on issues of critical importance to women and their families. IWPR focuses on issues of poverty and welfare, employment and earnings, work and family issues, health and safety and women's civic and political participation.

Political Research Associates
PRA is an independent, nonprofit research center that studies antidemocratic, authoritarian and other oppressive movements, institutions and trends. PRA is based on progressive values, and is committed to advancing an open, democratic and pluralistic society.

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Philanthropy
Global Fund for Women
The Global Fund for Women is a grantmaking foundation supporting women's human rights organizations around the world working to address critical issues such as gaining economic independence, increasing girls' access to education and stopping violence against women.

Women’s Foundation of Colorado
The Women’s Foundation of Colorado promotes the full participation of women and girls in society through direct grants and technical support to organizations working to improve the lives of Colorado's women and girls.

Women’s Funding Network
WFN is an international association of public and private women's foundations, federations, funds in community foundations, individual donors and supporting institutions committed to changing society by improving the status of women and girls.

Women & Philanthropy
Women & Philanthropy advocates within the field of philanthropy for the full engagement of women and girls in society and works to increase the effectiveness of foundations and individual philanthropists in creating a more caring and just world.

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