Grantees
The organizations that have received a grant from CDOO through the Colorado Disability Funding Committee are listed below by year and grant round. If you'd like to learn more about a specific organization, click their name to be redirected to their official site.
You can also see where each grantee is located on the map below. CDOO is proud to have partnered with folks across the state as well as outside of Colorado to improve the independence and quality of life for Coloradans experiencing a disability.
- 2024
Disability Application Assistance Round
These grants all fund assistance in obtaining Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), and Colorado Medicaid benefits.
- Center for Independence: $136,000 grant
- Center for Disabilities (Center Toward Self-Reliance): $36,000 grant
- Disabled Resource Services: $50,000 grant
- Denver Regional Council of Governments: $135,000 grant
- Easter Seals of Colorado: $92,500 grant
- El Grupo Vida: $140,000 grant
- NorthWest Colorado Center for Independence: $25,000 grant
New and Innovative Grant Round
- Achieve, Inc
- $10,000 grant to create a seasonal food trailer (Little Engine Eatery) in Buena Vista, Colorado where neurodivergent people can feel accepted and learn important skills while earning a paycheck
- Brewability Lab
- $10,000 grant to curate DineAbility boxes containing adaptive equipment to enable diners to eat out independently
- Overture (Carmel Community Living Corporation)
- $8,624 grant to install safety stove guards for five individuals in services and provide training on their use
- Chanda Center for Health
- $50,000 grant for the implementation of a consumer-directed CIH Waiver program model
- Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition
- $50,000 grant to launch their 'Unstoppable Together' campaign
- Our Back Office LLC
- $50,000 grant to provide sustainable support options for Family PASA’s (Program Approved Service Agency)
- Phamaly Theatre Company
- $50,000 grant to perform all-inclusive, all-disabled productions at the People’s Building in Aurora
- Real Life Colorado
- $9,593 grant to purchase Chromebooks and adaptive seating for disabled students
- The Arc of Colorado
- $50,000 grant to expand their Self-Advocate Legislative and Public Policy Advocacy Team
- The Wayfaring Band
- $20,000 grant to launch a monthly Supper Club that provides opportunities for friendship and human connection packaged with life skills for people with I/DD
- $20,000 grant to launch a monthly Supper Club that provides opportunities for friendship and human connection packaged with life skills for people with I/DD
- 2025
Disability Application Assistance Round
These grants all fund assistance in obtaining Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), and Colorado Medicaid benefits.
- Atlantis Community: $125,000 grant
- Aurora Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center: $100,000 grant
- Center for Independence: $125,000 grant
- Center for Legal Advocacy (Disability Law Colorado): $200,000 grant
- Center for People With Disabilities: $215,000 grant
- Community Connections: $35,000 grant
- Connections for Independent Living: $60,000 grant
- County of Archuleta Dept of Human Services: $25,000 grant
- Deaf Overcoming Violence through Empowerment (DOVE): $20,000 grant
- Disabled Resource Services: $40,000 grant
- Easter Seals Colorado: $225,000 grant
- El Grupo Vida: $125,000
- Ensight Skills Center: $10,000 grant
- La Raza Services: $115,165 grant
- WellPower (Mental Health Care Center of Denver): $100,000 grant
- Montrose County Human Services: $45,000 grant
- Morgan County Family Center: $40,000 grant
- NorthWest Colorado Center for Independence: $20,000 grant
- Resource Exchange: $110,000 grant
- Rocky Mountain MS Center: $30,000 grant
- The Arc of Larimer County: $30,000 grant
- Work Options for Women: $100,000 grant
New and Innovative Grant Round
- Adaptive Adventures
- $56,500 grant to assist disabled Coloradans with adaptive recreation
- Always Choose Adventures
- $34,500 grant to assist disabled Coloradans with access to the great outdoors of Colorado
- Ascendigo Autism Services
- $80,000 grant to assist disabled Coloradans with early intervention & treatment of ASD
- Aspiritech
- $50,000 grant to assist disabled Coloradans with job skills and job placement
- Atlantis Community
- $50,000 grant to assist disabled Coloradans with emergency readiness
- Audio Information Network of Colorado
- $50,000 grant to assist Coloradans with blindness in rural communities with disaster planning
- Blind Institute of Technology
- $75,000 grant to assist blind Coloradan professionals with education, certification, and job placement
- Canine Partners of the Rockies
- $57,000 grant to assist disabled Coloradans with service dog training and placement
- Center for Independence
- $100,000 grant to assist disabled Coloradans with peer mentor training, activities of daily living, independence, and self-care
- Colorado Center for the Blind
- $60,000 grant to assist Coloradans with blindness to use technology and become more independent
- Colorado Consumer Health Initiative
- $80,000 grant to assist disabled Coloradans with rectifying and resolving medical debts
- Colorado Fund for People with Disabilities
- $37,500 grant to educate families of transition-aged youth on public services and future planning
- Dabrowski Center
- $75,000 grant to assist disabled Coloradans with a supportive community center and help them build socialization skills
- Deaf Overcoming Violence through Empowerment (DOVE)
- $60,000 grant to assist disabled Coloradans with legal access and support
- Domino Service Dogs
- $25,000 grant to assist disabled Coloradans with improved access to well-trained service dogs
- Friends of El Paso County Nature Centers (El Paso County Parks Naturalist Docent Org.)
- $30,730 grant to assist disabled Coloradans with physical accessibility of the outdoors
- Generation Schools Network
- $57,500 grant to assist disabled Coloradans with certification, employment and self-employment initiatives
- Glow Up Counseling & Consulting
- $73,000 grant to assist disabled Coloradans with education to prevent abuse
- Home Builders Foundation of Metropolitan Denver
- $75,000 grant to assist disabled Coloradans with home modifications and independence
- Innivee Strategies
- $75,000 grant to assist disabled Coloradans with leadership training and placement within the DeafBlind community
- Inside the Orchestra
- $6,050 grant to assist disabled Coloradans with access to good music
- Motodemption
- $39,585 grant to assist disabled Coloradans with regaining the ability to ride motocross
- NeuAbility
- $70,250 to assist fitness facilities in becoming more accessible to people with disabilities
- Neurodiversity Community Center
- $22,565 grant to assist neurodiverse Coloradan youths with a safe invigorating afterschool program in Lafayette, Colorado
- Neurodiversity Works
- $75,000 grant to assist neurodiverse Coloradans with drone certification and prospective jobs
- Our Own Lives
- $41,631 grant to assist disabled Coloradans with IDD to plan their own outings and increase socialization
- Partners4Housing
- $80,000 grant to assist Coloradans with IDD to find shared housing solutions
- Pediatric Holistic Wellness
- $75,000 grant to assist disabled Coloradans with a gamified life-experience maker
- Prospect Academy of Colorado
- $50,500 grant to assist young disabled Coloradans with workforce empowerment and career exploration
- State of Colorado - Governor's Office of Information Technology
- $74,000 grant to assist disabled Coloradans with ease of access to ASL and ensure that this tool is effective
- Sunshine Home Share Colorado
- $62,000 grant to assist seniors, aging, and disabled Coloradans with homesharing and aging in place
- The Colorado Employment First Speakers Bureau
- $47,064 grant to assist disabled Coloradans with independence, confidence, public speaking, and mentorship
- Trails and Open Space Coalition (TOSC)
- $67,500 grant to assist disabled Coloradans with a digital tool that will provide accessibility information on a region's parks and trails
- University of Colorado Anschutz / Denver
- $88,975 grant to assist disabled Coloradans with applications for benefits with bilingual service and care