Your voice can shape Colorado’s future. At The Denver Foundation, community volunteers are essential partners in our grantmaking. When you volunteer with us, you help identify the students, organizations, and ideas that will make the biggest impact in our communities and across the state of Colorado.
Why Volunteer
Volunteering with The Denver Foundation gives you the chance to:
- Influence funding decisions that directly affect local communities
- Support the issues you care about, from education to housing to youth wellbeing, we cover a wide range of focus areas
- Collaborate with our staff, leadership, and other community leaders to uplift promising projects and solutions
If you’re ready to get more involved in your community and use your experience to spark real change, this is your opportunity. Your insight can help move resources where they’re needed most. Volunteers are needed for both scholarship and grantmaking reviews.
Volunteer Opportunities
Grant and scholarship volunteers do a range of activities, including the following:
- Review and score grant applications to help us identify strong organizations and projects and make recommendations that help guide final selection decisions.
- Review and score scholarship applications to help us identify scholarship recipients and make recommendations for final scholarship recipients.
- Time commitment: ~10–40 hours (February–Sept.)
- Most of our volunteer opportunities include a combination of virtual and in-person meetings
Volunteer Roles & Requirements
We make it easy to get started and meaningful to stay involved.
Training
One 90-minute virtual training session.
Experience
Helpful, but not required. We welcome volunteers with backgrounds in:
- Grant review or nonprofit work
- Community organizations
- Issue areas like housing, education, economic mobility, youth wellbeing, and more
- Experience with college access, financial aid, and scholarship programs or priority areas
- Commitment to our values of diversity, equity, and inclusion, catalytic leadership and systems change, trusting and collaborative relationships, and elevating community voices to strengthen civic fabric.
How to Apply
We value all forms of experience, so if you care about Colorado, you belong here. Please complete the application, and our team will be in touch with you regarding available volunteer opportunities.
Please note that spots are limited, and some opportunities may require specific expertise.
Questions?
Contact Janet Lopez at jlopez@denverfoundation.org.
