We are a leading community foundation that helps donors and nonprofits improve quality of life and create positive change in Jefferson County, the Denver metropolitan area and beyond.
We increase generosity and power community for positive change.
Community First Foundation is a leading community foundation serving as a connector, partner, collaborator and resource in fueling the power of community for positive change in Jefferson County, the Denver metropolitan area and beyond.
We were founded in 1975 as Lutheran Medical Center Foundation and served as the hospital's fundraising arm. Over the years, our name changed and our geographic focus expanded to respond to community needs. As we look to the future, we are more determined than ever to bring community partners together to find solutions for our most challenging social problems.
"Ever since the Conflict Center began building an endowment with Community First Foundation in 2004, we have learned what it truly means to have a partner. The Foundation not only stewards the management of the funds, but also provides ongoing access to the endowment-building and fundraising professionals we couldn't support on our own as a small, community- based nonprofit. Community First Foundation's staff has walked right alongside us for all these years. We are so grateful and lucky to partner with them."
--Ron Ludwig, The Conflict Center
"Community First Foundation's Innovators Society program plays an important role in creating a place where people and ideas can come together to help build healthy and thriving communities for all."
--Brian Corrigan, Founder and Director, OhHeckYeah
"For years Jefferson Center for Mental Health wanted to create an endowment to ensure that mental health care would be available to the community and help pay for the care of the most vulnerable people. Community First Foundation helped us realize our dream."
--Harriet L. Hall, Ph.D., CEO of Jefferson Center for Mental Health
"We're saving lives and putting families back together. You ask the women where they'd be without our program and most of the time they say they'd be in prison or dead. The endowment with Community First Foundation brings a sense of permanence to Friends of the Haven, provides an enduring legacy for donors to support, and significantly benefits recipients of the scholarships it supports."
-- Bill Winn, President, Friends of the Haven.
"It is truly difficult to express what just happened here in our community this week. Something extraordinary, most certainly. And it is because of the generosity and support of the Community First Foundation that we were able to achieve this incredible success."
--Tarsha Ebbern, Yampa Valley Gives, (Colorado Gives Day Regional Champion) referencing Colorado Gives Day
