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The Latin American Educational Foundation (LAEF) established its endowment fund in 1999. Agency-advised funds and agency endowed funds are low-cost options that will invest a nonprofit’s funds for the future,…

The Inclusiveness Project sought to financially support community organizations in training and recruiting more diverse staff—staff who reflected their own community, but who might not have been previously qualified. The…

Roger Reisher created the Reisher Scholars Program at The Denver Foundation in 2001. Born in Nebraska in 1928, Reisher went on to a career in banking and a place in…

Frances Charsky was a successful investor and financier who, with her husband, Louis, managed properties in the Denver area. Charsky left her valuable collections of fine antiques, jewelry, art, and…

Kaiser Permanente partnered with us to maximize their philanthropic impact by setting up a business donor-advised fund. Through the years, the Kaiser Permanente Community Health Fund has granted more than…

The past 10 years’ gifts to The Denver Foundation totaled $284,496,885—a more than 7x increase over the previous decade.

Originally created to meet basic human needs such as food, heat, and shelter for the most vulnerable people in Metro Denver after the 2001 economic downturn, the Critical Needs Fund…

When the IRS restricted the way scholarships are administered from donor-advised funds, we restructured and formalized our scholarships to honor donors’ wishes while complying with the changes. The result was…

In partnership with Mayor John Hickenlooper, we raised funds to support nonpolitical events at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, held in Denver. This was an historic event where the Democratic…

In October, we released the results of a listening campaign that asked nearly 800 Metro Denver residents what they envisioned for the community’s future. Our trustees and staff used the…