It may feel taboo or an arm’s length away, but addiction, homelessness and domestic violence are real issues faced across all walks of life, even in seemingly normal families. For more than 36 years, Providence Network (PN), a Christian-based transformational housing program in Denver, has supported men, women and children ready for recovery. One of…

  It started as an idea to bridge the gap between old and young and has become a largely fulfilling and compelling community-based program. High Prairie Storytellers (HPS) is the local chapter of Spellbinders, a Colorado nonprofit launched in 1997 that provides the gift of oral storytelling, mostly to young students. HPS serves Douglas, Elbert…

Night Lights (NL), a local nonprofit, provides respite care for children who have special needs and their neuro-typical siblings. This year, NL celebrates 15 years with six location sites: Parker, Littleton, Colorado Springs, Arvada, Broomfield and Grand Junction. The organization aims to open a Castle Pines or Castle Rock site by January 2027. “I would…

Just to our north, near I-25 and Dry Creek Road, sits the international headquarters for Project C.U.R.E. (Commission on Urgent Relief and Equipment). Its warehouse is full of donated medical supplies and equipment which are sorted, prepared into cargo containers and shipped to more than 135 countries around the world. The nonprofit’s headquarters has remained…

Hope Haven Rwanda (HHR) opened in 2012 by Susan Hollern of Sedalia. The nonprofit Christian school began as a small classroom under a cascading acacia tree and has blossomed into a thriving 220,000-square-foot campus with 65 classrooms, labs and libraries, serving more than 2,200 students in the Murindi sector of Kigali, in the Republic of…

Lisa Armao’s background in early childhood education includes more than 33 years as a Montessori-trained executive director. In 2018, she viewed an intergenerational programing documentary about a memory care home with an onsite preschool. She immediately knew bringing the old and young together was the calling for the rest of her life. The local nonprofit,…