denver post community

Ride The Rockies/Denver Post Community grant program returns for its tenth consecutive year!

We are proud to offer this program, designed to support nonprofit agencies that work to improve the lives of Coloradans in the towns that host Ride The Rockies. One $5,000 grant will be awarded in each host community.

The Ride The Rockies/Denver Post Community grant program funds nonprofit organizations that provide services for low-income children and youth through recreation, education, or the arts and/or agencies that offer direct-service literacy programs.

Since the program began in 2001, over $380,000 has been granted to towns throughout the state.

In 2009, $30,000 in grants were awarded to Ride The Rockies host communities.

The grant recipients included:

• Glenwood Springs – Roaring Fork Valley Early Learning Fund
• Hotchkiss – Partners of Delta, Montrose, and Ouray
• Gunnison – Gunnison Country Partners
• Salida – Boys & Girls Clubs of Chaffee County
• Leadville – Full Circle of Lake County
• Aspen – Aspen Youth Center

DPC Grant Application

Guidelines:

• Programs for disadvantaged children or youth through recreation, education or the arts
• Direct-service literacy programs

• Agency must be a 501(c)(3) organization (as shown by the agency's IRS 50(c)(3) tax-exempt determination letter)
• Agency has been operating for more than one year
• A current audit or IRS 990 must be made available
• Programs must serve individuals in a community in which Ride The Rockies is making an overnight stop

• Capital funding
• Individual schools
• Individual persons
• Religious organizations for religious purposes