Brand Fundamentals
Terminology
Funding Priorities
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Promoting health

What is CFC's formal tagline?

100

The people with common interests living in a particular area; also can be used to refer to a shared identity or shared experience.

What is  "Community"?

100

CFC will invest $6M in 2025 in this funding priority, which used to be known internally as "statewide".

What is Youth, Health, and Well-Being?

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Colorado’s young people and their families are happy, healthy, and thriving.

What is our vision statement?

200

This grantmaking addresses an issue/outcome through long-term efforts that involve system and policy work and partnerships. It can also involve testing a new idea.

What is initiative-based grantmaking?

200

The purpose of this priority is to create a strong foundation for the healthy growth and development of young people by investing in public middle and high schools to create school environments that support students’ social, emotional, and mental health needs. 

What is Youth Mental Health in Schools?

300

These 4 values guide our work with partners, communities, and each other. 

What is hope, service, inclusion, and integrity.

300

Six interconnected funding strategies designed to advance CFCs mission.

What is a funding priority?

300

The three focus areas of this FO include Responsive Grantmaking for Children, Youth, and Families, Nonprofit Capacity Building, and Youth Leadership and Grantmaking.

What is Caring for Pueblo County?

400

The traits and characteristics of compassionate, collaborative, innovative, and caring.

What is our brand personality?

400

A general term for focused work, which can include responsive grantmaking or initiative-based grantmaking. This can also be funded through an implementation partner.

What is a program?

400

A program that provides grants to safety net clinics to remove the financial barrier to contraceptive methods in communities with a high proportion of uninsured and underinsured individuals and where contraceptive care is limited.

What is Choose When?

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This approach defines people by their aspirations and contributions and highlights the systems creating the barriers impeding opportunities for young people.

What is asset-framing?

500

Work that falls within a Caring for Colorado funding priority.

What is a focus area?

500

CFC does not have an open application process for this funding priority. Instead, we work to identify investment opportunities that align with foundation goals.

What is Economic Opportunity for Young People and Their Families.