African-American Voter Registration and Information Project (AAVIP)
The African-American Voter Registration and Information Project (“AAVIP”) is a non-profit, non-partisan project of the Colorado Black Women for Political Action. It is dedicated to the political empowerment and civic engagement of the African-American Community. Since 2004, AAVIP has continued voter registration and education outreach in the community with intensive focus on the registration of eligible high-school students, collaboration with partner organizations, ballot forums, and ballot guides. We do not support, or oppose, political candidates.
Adrian Miller, Chair, Executive Committee
2015 York Street
Denver, CO 80205
(303) 757-4499
Email: aavip@comcast.net
Please take a moment to make sure that you are registered to vote at www.govotecolorado.com.
brother jeff’s Cultural Center
Brother Jeff’s Cultural Center, founded in 1994 is located in the historic Five Points District in Northeast Denver—a space committed to fostering growth, strength, and voice in the community. These ends are achieved through the exploration of visual and performing arts, celebrations, and programs that inform and enrich people’s lives. Committed to youth, the Cultural Center also sponsors an annual free summer lunch program for area children, providing sustenance, support, enrichment and fun for young people during the summer. The center hosts a variety of special events and celebrations that serve to ground community throughout the year including Juneteenth, Kwanzaa, and Black History Month activities.
brother jeff, Founder
2836 Welton Street
Denver, Colorado 80205
(303) 297-0823
Email: brotherjeff1@earthlink.net
Website: www.brotherjeff.com
Charity's House Ministries
Charity's House Ministries (CHM) provides aftercare for men transitioning from prison back to community. CHM provide safe clean sober living for African American males and a comprehensive program to successfully stay in community and stop recidivism rates from increasing with men of color.
Charity's House Ministries is located on the Welton Strip
Charity's House Ministries is located on the Welton Strip
3022 Welton Street
Denver, Co 80205
303-291-0275 (office)
www.charityshouseministries.org
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance is an international, cross-cultural, dance-arts and educational institution rooted in African American traditions, and dedicated to excellence in providing instruction, performances and community programs, for intergenerational students, artists and audiences. It is a 501 (c) (3) multi-cultural performing arts organization in Denver, Colorado with a long history of serving the needs of the community. CPRD is composed of a professional modern dance ensemble, year-round dance school, 300 seat theatre, in-school lecture demonstration series, international summer dance institute and outreach program for at-risk youth. In 1999, CPRD became an affiliate of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
Cleo Parker Robinson, Founder and Artistic Director
119 Park Avenue West
Denver, CO 80205-3209
(303) 295-1759
Email: cleodance@aol.com
Website: http://www.cleoparkerdance.org
Colorado Association of Black Journalists
The Colorado Association of Black Journalists (CABJ) is a professional organization made up of reporters, broadcasters, editors, photographers, publishers, public relations/advertising professionals and technical people from the local news media. Formed in 1987, its purpose is to provide a support network for its members and direct access to the mainstream media for the African-American community. CABJ is dedicated to telling the complete, balanced and unbiased story of our community, and increasing Black representation in the news media.
Nadia Gedeon, President
P.O. Box 48192
Denver, CO 80204
Email: nadia@cabj-denver.org
Website: http://www.cabj-denver.org
Colorado Association of Black Professional Engineers and Scientists
The Colorado Association of Black Professional Engineers and Scientists (CABPES) is a non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging African-American and underrepresented youth to pursue career choices in the engineering and applied science professions. By doing so, the number of minority technical professionals will increase to the level that better represents the minority population, while assisting these industries in meeting the growing demand for engineers and scientists.
Dewey Brigham, President
4301 East Colfax
Denver, CO. 80220
(303) 329-6251
Website: http://cabpes.org
Colorado Black Chamber of Commerce
The Colorado Black Chamber (CBCC) began in 1985 with just a staff of one and a handful of Black business members. Now, the organization boasts more than 50 corporate members and nearly 1000 business members. The Chamber remains a solid voice for the Black business community while continuously refocusing its efforts to meet the ever changing needs of its members. Our mission is to support the initiatives of Black business owners and create an enterprise that focuses on success and viability. We endeavor to create awareness and visibility of our efforts at local, state and federal levels through lobbying and advocacy. We want to provide education and training that keeps Black business owners in step with the ever-changing requirements of Colorado’s economic playing field.
Eric Lee, Chief Executive
410 17th St # 1110
Denver, CO 80202-4424
(303) 831-0720
Email: staff@coloradoblackchamber.org
Website: http://www.coloradoblackchamber.org
Colorado Black Women for Political Action (CBWPA)
Colorado Black Women for Political Action, Inc. is a Colorado non-profit, non-partisan organization whose purpose is to provide a vehicle for meaningful political involvement of Black people and of Black women in particular. Our goal is to engage all Black women in the political process.
President, Khadija Haynes
2015 York Street
Denver, CO 80205
(303) 388-4983
Email: info@cbwpa.org
Website: www.cbwpa.org
The Crowley Foundation Scholarship Fund
The Crowley Foundation Scholarship Fund is a non-profit organization designed to provide inner-city youth with financial opportunities that will assist them in furthering their educational goals. We offer campus tours, community workshops, arrange ACT/SAT prep testing and much more. Recipients of the scholarship must: be a resident of Colorado, have performed community service, have a financial need, have a cumulative GPA of 2.7 and complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
Kenneth Crowley - Director/Founder
2901 St Paul
Denver, Co 80205
(720) 935.6465
Email: kdcrowley@crowleyfoundation.biz
Website: www.crowleyfoundation.biz
Denver NAACP Yourh Council
The Denver NAACP Youth Council, a 501-c(4) organization, is entering its sixteenth year of community involvement and leadership. Over the years we have sponsored major events promoting nonviolence, supporting education and encouraging young people to be responsble members of the community. Eighty percent of our high school graduates between 1995-2011, have enrolled in college. Previous youth councils have attended nine national NAACP conventions, bringing back ideas and inspiration to better serve the Denver area. Our most exciting project is our biannual conference, "Jail is No Place to Be Somebody", informing youth of the pitfalls of crime and incarceration.
Dr. Carolyn Philips, Advisor
Clayvon Barnes, President
Mrs. Lydia Morton, Co-Advisor
P.O. Box 1234
Westminster, CO 80030
(303) 588-7296
Email: denvernaacpyouth@comcast.net
Website: www.denvernaacpyouth.net
Excel Institute
Excel Institute was organized to address the total educational needs of children in grades K-8th. We believe a total education must address the academic, physical, spiritual, and social needs. If all areas are not addressed it is our belief that a child does not receive a total education. We further intend to address the educational needs in accordance with Colorado Law through the Accountability Process, to teach and exhibit Christian Principles required to build people of integrity and moral ethics.
Vivian Wilson, Executive Administrator
3050 Richard Allen Ct.
Denver, CO 80205
(303) 355-0667
Email: vwilson@ denverexcelinstitute.org
Website: www.
denverexcelinstitute.org
Colorado Black Health Collaborative
The Colorado Black Health Collaborative is a community based organization that is committed to improving health and wellness in Colorado’s Black, African, and African American communities through collaborations, partnerships, and teaming arrangements with community based organizations, non-profits, public organizations, private entities and government agencies.
Thelma Craig, Chair, Colorado Black Health Collaborative
Email: info@coloradoblackhealth.org
Website: www.coloradoblackhealth.org
Greater Metro Ministerial Alliance
The GMDMA is an outgrowth of the East Denver Ministers Alliance that was organized in the early 1940’s as voice of Hope for the disenfranchised and underprivileged Afro-American Community. The original focus was to edify and strengthen the Ministry of the Black Church and provide a sounding board for receiving complaints from the citizen in the Five-Point Community.
Our Focus was always on supporting those who had been abused by Socioeconomic and Political Systems operating in the North-East Denver Community. For more than 70 years the GMDMA has been the strong voice of Hope and Change in the Metro-Denver Community.
Pastor Leon Emerson, PRESIDENT GMDMA
Website: http://www.gmdma.com
Girlz Pushing The Button
Girlz Pushing The Button, a program of The Kaleidoscope Project Colorado, is a newly formed organization consisting of Black Lesbians in Colorado connected and committed to community. The organization is designed to mobilize Colorado’s Black Lesbian community towards community transformation. The organization, already comprised of a few hundred women is growing rapidly and impressively. Founder, Nita Mosby Henry shares “Our vision is to belong and act as an investor, owner, and creator of our community.”
Brande’ Micheau, Project Manager
303-647-5599
Email: girlzpushingthebutton@gmail.com
Heal The Hood Movement
The Heal The Hood Movement which is dedicated to raising social consciousness and providing collaborative assistance, ideas and tools for communities in need of healing in the Metro Denver area and throughout Colorado. It is a grassroots movement to put an immediate end to neighborhood violence statewide with a focused plan for peace and healing by exposing and addressing the causes of widespread violence. A call to action for all community members, non-profit agencies, community organizations and local government agencies to have a proactive part in constructing lasting positive change, peace and healing in our neighborhoods.
Terrance Roberts
5405 E. 33rd Ave.
Denver, CO 80207
(303) 953-1541
Lost Found Members of the Nation of Islam in North America Universal African Improvement Association
They practice the valuesand live the principles that are rooted in the one GOD, the Messengers
of the one God, and the Books of the one God. They practice and live the principle of supporting the needs of those who are less fortunate than ourselves and who have been rejected and outcast from civilization because of poverty, ignorance, and historical disadvantage. They seek to empower them through knowledge of self, knowledge of one God, and knowledge of culture, refinement, and the science of everything in life - love, peace, and happiness.
12963 East Elgin Place
Denver, Colorado 80239
(720) 984-3680
imanskyblue1@aol.com
www.lfmnoina-uaia.org
Ministerial Alliance Foundation
The Ministerial Alliance Foundation, a Colorado nonprofit corporation (the “Foundation”), was formed in February, 2009 by leaders of The Greater Metropolitan Denver Ministerial Alliance (”GMDMA”), a Colorado nonprofit corporation and a social welfare organization. GMDMA is one of the oldest organized ministerial groups in the city of Denver, Colorado and has been in existence for over fifty (50) years. It is the vision of the Ministerial Alliance Foundation (the “Foundation”) to create exposure and new opportunities through the collaborative effort of the Christian faith community. Its charitable mission shall be implemented through three major programs: education, empowerment, and employment. The Foundation’s goal is for the positive transformation of its local community as well as society as a whole.
Contact Person: Dr. James D. Peters Jr.
1312 Uinta St
Denver, Colorado 80220
(303) 399-9700
Email: jpeters5263@aol.com
Website: http://ministerialalliancefoundation.org
National Association for Advancement of Color People (NAACP)
The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination. In addition to ensuring the equality of these rights, the Denver Branch is very involved in empowering these rights by taking an active role in effecting change in the alarming statistics that currently exist in the African American, Hispanic, and other Communities. Denver Branch
Marcus J. Farmer, President
608 26th Street, Suite 200A
Denver, CO 80205
(720) 210-9889 extension #106
Email: Mfarmer@NAACPDenver.org
Aurora Branch
Dr. Levester Lyons, PhD, (President)
P.O BOX 31671
Aurora, CO 80041
Phone: (303) 366-2971
Email: auroracoloradonaacp@gmail.com
Padres y Jovenes Unidos
With roots in the struggle for educational justice, Padres Unidos has evolved into a multi-issue organization led by people of color who work for educational excellence, racial justice for youth, immigrant rights and quality healthcare for all. Jóvenes Unidos, the youth initiative of Padres Unidos, emerged as young people became active in reforming their schools, ending the school to jail track and organizing for immigrant student rights. Both Padres and Jóvenes Unidos build power to challenge the root cause of discrimination, racism and inequity by exposing the economic, social and institutional basis for injustice as well as developing effective strategies to realize meaningful change.
Pam Martinez & Ricardo Martinez, Co-Directors
3025 W. 37th Ave. #206
Denver, CO 80211
(303) 458-6545 (Office)
www.padresunidos.org
Urban League of Metro Denver
The Urban League of Metropolitan Denver was founded in 1946 for the purpose of promoting the attainment of economic and social self-reliance among poor and disadvantaged African Americans. Since 1946 the League has worked aggressively to create a level playing field for African Americans and others of all ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Today, the Urban League is implementing innovative programs to prepare our constituents for the new millennium.
As one of 114 affiliates of the National Urban League, the agency serves as a liaison between the business community, city and county governments and other community-based organizations that share its concern for the welfare of the economically disadvantaged in Denver.
Landri Taylor, Executive Director
2015 York Street
Denver, CO 80205
(303) 377-2790
Email: info@denverurbanleague.org
Website: www.denverurbanleague.org
The Center for African American Health
The Center for African American Health is dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of the African-American community. It provides culturally-sensitive disease prevention and disease management programs to African-Americans living in the metro Denver area.
Grant Jones, Executive Director
3601 Martin Luther King Blvd
Denver, CO 80205-4976
(303) 355-3423
Email: info@caahealth.org
Website:www.caahealth.org
The Kaleidoscope Project
The Kaleidoscope Project is a community-based organization designed to create healthy communities through civic engagement. Our organization is built on the philosophy that the more we are involved in volunteerism and effective community dialogue, ultimately the healthier we will be. The Kaleidoscope Project developed the Civic Engagement Model as a tool to move communities through stages of change to improve health outcomes. The goal is to provide culturally responsive services that promote positive health outcomes in communities of color. Through volunteerism and a focus on organizational and community inclusivity, The Kaleidoscope Project has successfully helped hundreds of people engage in communities in ways that they never had before.
Nita Mosby Henry, PhD, Executive Director/Founder
2499 Washington Street
Denver, Colorado 80205
Office – (303) 647-5599
Website: www.thekaleidoscopeproject.org
Email: nitahenry@thekaleidoscopeproject.org
The Prodigal Son Initiative Inc.
The Prodigal Son Initiative Inc., an organization that offers after school programs including tutoring, mentoring, dynamic field trips, and education about healthy lifestyles. The Prodigal Son Initiative offers regular opportunities for at-risk children to be a part of positive activities throughout the metro area.This mission isto strengthen and build up our communities by giving youth, and future leaders, the positive tools and knowledge that they will need to succeed.
Terrance Roberts, Executive Director
The Park Hill Community Center
5405 E. 33rd Ave (33rd and Hudson St)
Denver, CO 80207
(303) 953-1541
Mobile: (720) 635-7085
Email: TRoberts@ProdigalSonInc.org
Veterans of Hope Project
The Veterans of Hope Project is a multifaceted educational initiative on religion, culture and participatory democracy. We encourage a healing-centered approach to community-building that recognizes the interconnectedness of spirit, creativity and citizenship. Our educational materials are designed to support reconciliation, nonviolence and an appreciation for the value of indigenous and folk wisdom for contemporary times.
2201 South University Boulevard
Denver, Colorado 80210
(303) 765 3194
Email: vohproject@iliff.edu
Website:
www.veteransofhope.org
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