Cancer Support Community Southwest Colorado

A nonprofit organization

$6,622 raised by 14 donors

44% complete

$15,000 Goal


Please give today.  

Together, we can make sure no one 
in Southwest Colorado faces cancer alone.


In Southwest Colorado, facing cancer is never just about medical treatments. For many of our rural families, the challenges extend far beyond the hospital walls. Long travel distances, limited access to specialists, financial strain, decreased local mental health resources, and the emotional weight of isolation create barriers that no one should have to navigate alone. For many, simply getting to treatment requires hours on the road, missed work, childcare struggles, or choosing between gas in the tank and groceries on the table.

That’s why Cancer Support Community Southwest Colorado exists—to ensure that every person impacted by cancer, no matter where they live or what they earn, can access the essential non-medical support that helps them endure treatment, maintain dignity, and experience hope.

We provide community-based oncology nurse navigation, wigs and mastectomy garments, resource guidance, mental health support and supervised support groups, transportation assistance, gas cards, help locating hotel stays during treatment, survivorship programming, financial navigation, wellness programs, and a warm, caring community when the journey feels overwhelming. Every service is offered at absolutely no cost to patients, survivors, and their loved ones.

But we cannot do any of this alone.

This giving event is critical. As cancer diagnoses rise and costs continue to surge, so do the number of people who turn to us for help. Your donation directly removes barriers that no person with cancer should face - barriers rooted in geography, finances, fear, or simply going through this journey without support.

Your gift today will:

  • Provide gas cards and transportation grants so patients can reach lifesaving treatments.
  • Help locate hotel stays for those traveling long distances.
  • Support licensed mental health providers who guide our support groups.
  • Keep our hospital-based volunteer Resource Center stocked with wigs, prostheses, mastectomy garments, and comfort items.
  • Expand programs that reduce isolation and promote healing healthy lifestyle classes, workshops, support groups, and survivorship activities providing social connection. 
  • Ensure a caring, knowledgeable staff is always there when someone hears the words, “You have cancer.”

For our rural community, your generosity is not abstract, it means immediate, practical, life-changing support for your neighbors, coworkers, and loved ones. Every dollar helps close the gap between what cancer takes away and what compassionate community can restore.


Community Is Stronger Than Cancer.


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Mission

Our mission at CSC is to uplift and strengthen people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care. Our vision is that everyone impacted by cancer receives the support they want and need throughout their experience.

We believe Community Is Stronger Than Cancer.

Background Statement

In 2014, the nonprofit Blueprints of Hope sprang to life in Durango, Colorado. Living in a rural, under-resourced community, we recognized that supportive care services for people with cancer were fragmented, if they were available at all.

We began seeking ways to remove barriers to timely access to cancer care and pinpointing resources that would meet the needs of the people we serve. Soon we realized these services could be readily accessed through a community-based nurse navigation program. The staff and volunteers of Blueprints of Hope felt strongly these services should be available to people who were experiencing any season of the cancer journey. As an adjunct to our navigation program, Blueprints of Hope envisioned a simple, interactive website - a connecting point - which would provide local and regional cancer information. This website would be an easily accessible link complementing cancer and post-treatment survivorship care for individuals, families, friends, caregivers, and their care providers in Southwest Colorado.

In 2023, Blueprints of Hope became a full network partner of Cancer Support Community, the largest professionally led nonprofit network of cancer support worldwide, and was formally renamed Cancer Support Community Southwest Colorado.

Though we have partnered with Cancer Support Community, we continue as a local independent nonprofit, and all monies raised go toward providing programs and services to the Southwest Colorado communities we serve.

Since 2014, first as Blueprints of Hope, and now as Cancer Support Community Southwest Colorado, we have served as a cancer support organization working to improve the quality of life for individuals facing cancer in Southwest Colorado. All services offered are completely free of charge for anyone, at any age, facing any type or stage of cancer, and are for the entire family.

From the beginning - through navigation, education, supportive care programs and advocacy - we have aspired to help improve the lives of individuals living with and beyond cancer.

Organization Data

Summary

Organization name

Cancer Support Community Southwest Colorado

other names

Cancer Support Community Southwest Colorado, CSC Southwest Colorado, Blueprints of Hope

Year Established

2014

Tax id (EIN)

36-4797617

Category

Diseases, Disorders & Medical Disciplines, Human Services, Mental Health & Crisis Intervention, Education

Organization Size

Small Organization

Address

1701 Main Ave., Ste. C - P.O. Box 941
Durango, CO 81302

Headquarters

1701 Main Ave., Ste. C
Durango, CO 81301

Mailing

P.O. Box 941
Durango , CO 81302-0921

Service areas

La Plata County, CO, US

Archuleta County, CO, US

Dolores County, CO, US

Montezuma County, CO, US

San Juan County, CO, US

Phone

970-403-3711

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