Local Nonprofits Save Lives

Three Nonprofits That Support the Community Content warning: the blog post below contains mentions of suicide, domestic violence, and cancer. While all our nonprofits in the Gunnison Valley engage in life-changing work, this month we want to shine a spotlight on three...

Community Grants Stories: Educating the Youth of Gunnison Valley

Positive Impact for Our Youth In April, our 2022 Community Grants Recipients submitted their grant reports including impact stories from last year. Your investment in and support of CFGV allows us to nurture a strong nonprofit sector that enhances and supports our...

Welcome, Jessica Wurtz!

Meet Jessica Our CFGV team is excited to be adding a new member in May. Jessica Wurtz recently started as our Director of Philanthropy. This new position on our team will deepen our role in the community as a partner in philanthropy and broaden our work connecting...

Collective Impact – The State of the Community One Year Later

Collective Impact, One Year Later In March of 2022, the Community Health Coalition (CHC) presented the 2022 State of the Community Report at a series of public meetings. The full report ran 283 pages. We covered it extensively at the time because the findings were so...

STEPping Up to the Plate

Helping Nonprofits for Over 10 Years Ronda Connaway was born in the eastern plains of Colorado, not far from the Kansas border. In her early childhood, her family farm suffered through the swath of challenges brought on by the 1930s – not only the Great Depression,...