Impact

The Pikes Peak Community Foundation believes that to effectively impact one's community, a broad-scale approach is required. We don't just advance community philanthropy through donor-advised funds, designated funds, fiscal sponsor services, and grant-making to non-profits; we also offer a wide range of local impact initiatives designed to advance health, wellness, and cultural activities in the Pikes Peak region.

Creating Community Sustainability

• Venetucci Farm/Pinello Ranch (local organic food and animal husbandry)
• Pikes Peak Urban Gardens (community gardens, small-scale urban agriculture)
• Aspen Valley Ranch (sustainable living skills such as working with wood, stone, metal; high-altitude gardening; alternate energy solutions, forestry, etc.)

Advancing the Arts

• Aspen Valley Ranch (art and music workshops, projects, shows, and performances)
• Fund for the Arts (support for local arts organizations and individual artists)
• Collaboration with Smokebrush Foundation and the Woodland Park Arts Alliance

Innovative Education

• Venetucci Farm/Pinello Ranch (focused on local food, nutrition, wellness, health, sustainability, etc.)
• Aspen Valley Ranch (wide variety of workshops, classes, seminars)
• Peak Education (mentoring and scholarship support for talented, underserved students in Harrison District 2)
• Scholarship Funds (variety of types)

Promoting Conservation

• Pikes Peak Conservation Fund (primarily dedicated to open space, conservation easements, catalyst for overall conservation efforts)
• Mary Starsmore Fund (dedicated to Starsmore Center, N. Cheyenne Canon Park, Stratton Open Space)

Creating Local Community Impact

• UpaDowna (raise awareness and appreciation for the outdoors by providing fun and educational adventures for all ages and experience levels)

Encouraging Social Entrepreneurs

• Symposium on Philanthropy in the New Economy
• Venture Fund
• Pikes Peak Real Estate Foundation (encouraging positive community impact using real estate properties)
• Ingenuity Grants

Helping Nonprofit Organizations

• Grant making (board-directed; discretionary)
• Donor-advised funds and donor-designated grants (wide variety of fund types)
• Convening Fund (designed to pull together people around a common idea or beneficial purpose)
• Emergency Fund (grants as well as low-or-no interest loans are possible)
• Fiscal sponsorship services (examples include Stop Family Violence, Fountain Creek Restoration Project)
• Establishing endowment funds (the “one-percent solution”)

Planned Giving Support and Services

• Special Funds
• Erikson Fund (for visually impaired and blind citizens)