Feb 3, 2010
1:44pm

Contact: Jennifer Johnson, JVA Consulting, LLC
jennifer@jvaconsulting.com
800.292.9551

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 3, 2010

JVA Consulting announces $200,000 in awards for capacity building initiative that will engage boomers and help elders in need

JVA Consulting (JVA), a Colorado-based research and consulting firm that works with nonprofit organizations and social innovators, has announced the grant award winners for the Colorado Compassion Initiative (CCI). JVA was awarded funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Compassion Capital Fund (CCF) to build the capacity of agencies serving and engaging baby boomers and olderadults to help address community problems.

Community and faith-based organizations in the metro areas of Denver, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins/Loveland, Greeley and Pueblo—as well as rural areas in Delta,Fremont and Mesa counties—were eligible to apply for the competitive grants process. Grantees will receive financial grants, group trainings and one-on-one technical assistance to strengthen their capacity to do their work.

“We are so excited to be working with another fantastic group of grantees engaging and serving boomers across the state,” said Jennifer Johnson, JVA’s director of CCI. “Personally, I have been impressed by the passion of all the applicants, many who work countless hours unpaid. I applaud their work and everyone at JVA is looking forward to building the capacity of all these wonderful organizations.”

In the Denver metro area, 17 organizations were selected for both grant awards and free capacity building training and assistance.

“We are very pleased to be selected as a CCI grantee—we are exactly the people for this grant, a community based organization who helps people rebuild their lives,” said Franklin Jackson of National Association for Black Veterans. “We want to work with JVA to create more success stories, and with JVA’s help we want to plan strategically for our future.”

Denver area grantees and award amounts for Year 3 of CCI are listed below.

• American Council of the Blind of Colorado $2,049
• Colorado Assistive Technology* $5,000
• Colorado Interfaith Power & Light $7,000
• Colorado Ovarian Cancer Alliance * $6,000
• Community Ministry $1,000
• Denver Asset Building Coalition $7,000
• The Center $5,000
• Life Quality Institute $7,000
• Metro Volunteers $7,000
• My Lifeline.org* $5,000
• National Association for Black Veterans $3,000
• Neighborhood Resource Center of Colorado * $6,550
• Northeast Church of Christ $7,545
• Vietnamese Elderly Association $5,000
• Volunteers in Action $8,000
• Washington Park Cares $5,834
• We CAN! $3,225

* Statewide organization

Audio Information Network of Colorado, a statewide organization based in Boulder was also selected for a grant award of $8,000.

Since 2002, JVA has managed three CCI capacity building initiatives—providing more than 6,000 hours of technical support and distributing almost $1.5 million
to more than 500 Colorado organizations.

JVA Consulting is the leading research and consulting firm in the intermountain West focused solely on community and social change. Its services include community assessments, strategic and business planning, social enterprise,
fundraising consulting, grantwriting, board and staff development, and research and program evaluation.

For more information about CCI, contact Jennifer Johnson at Jennifer@jvaconsulting.com or 800.292.9551. To see the full list of organizations selected for CCI funding, visit www.jvaconsutling.com.

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