Peaks to People Water Fund

Help Us Safeguard Colorado’s Forests and Water

Imagine a Colorado where our forests are resilient, our water is clean and plentiful, and communities—both rural and urban—thrive. Peaks to People Water Fund works to make this vision a reality by reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfires and protecting the mountain watersheds that provide essential resources.

Why Donate?
Your donation supports critical forest restoration projects that:

- Reduce wildfire risk and severity

- Improve water quality and quantity

- Protect wildlife habitats and recreational opportunities

- Ensure the prosperity of businesses that rely on clean water

- Keep our communities safe and protect our quality of life in Northern Colorado

Our Impact

Since our founding in 2015, Peaks to People has been a leader in protecting Northern Colorado’s watersheds. Through strategic partnerships and innovative tools like our Watershed Investment Tool, we make targeted, high-impact investments to safeguard these precious resources.

 What Makes Us Unique

Collaborative Approach: The challenges facing our watersheds are too vast for any one organization to tackle alone. That’s why Peaks to People launched the Big Thompson Watershed Health Partnership (BTWHP) in 2022. This collaboration of 17 local, state, and federal organizations—both public and private—aims to accelerate and scale up forest health projects across the watershed.

Data-Driven Investment: Our proprietary Watershed Investment Tool ensures that each dollar you donate is used where it will have the greatest impact, protecting water supplies and reducing wildfire risks.

Join Us in Making a Difference

By donating to Peaks to People, you’re investing in a future where Colorado’s forests and water sources remain resilient and abundant. Every dollar you give directly supports forest health projects that protect water supplies from wildfire and climate change impacts.

Your Donation

1. Supports our work facilitating the Big Thompson Watershed Health Partnership.
2. Helps us provide critical match funding for cross boundary, multi-partner forest health projects.
3. Helps us reduce post-fire flooding risks for local communities.
4. Supports our strategic planning efforts that ensure long-term watershed protection.

 Donate Today

Together, we can create a healthier, more resilient Colorado. Your gift today helps us continue our vital work to protect the future of our forests, water, and communities. Will you join us?

Thank you for your support!

Testimonials

“Peaks to People adds a tremendous amount of value to conservation efforts in northern Colorado as an organizing force and umbrella under which collaborative forest management projects can be developed and implemented among a broad range of agencies and organizations.” Rob Addington, Forest and Fire Program Director, The Nature Conservancy of Colorado.

"The Colorado State Forest Service Fort Collins Field Office appreciates and values Peaks to People Water Fund and the role they bring towards a shared vision of stewarding our state's forests and the watersheds we rely on. They have provided a unique and important role in the formation and leadership of the Big Thompson Watershed Health Partnership (BTWHP), which resources and aligns a wide range of stakeholders on specific and strategic implementation. Through this partnership Peaks to People has created a reliable and actionable framework for partners to collaborate on projects together and innovate new ways of strategic planning. Specifically, they played a pivotal role developing a new planning tool which combines the USFS Potential Operational Delineations framework and the National Cohesive Wildfire Strategy to plan and track the implementation of wildfire mitigation projects at a large scale. They played a direct role in developing the tool and facilitated critical dialogue within the BTWHP to further its development. This new tool has the potential to make substantial and meaningful impact of the pace and scale wildfire mitigation projects being implemented to match the current wildfire crisis our state and country are facing. Peaks to People also plays a direct and valuable role in its ability to assist with individual project development and implementation using grants such as CSFS' Forest Restoration and Wildfire Risk Mitigation. The FRWRM grant program focuses on impacting our forests and communities at scale. Peaks to People plays a big role in its ability to expand project footprints by bringing together individual partners and opportunities for additional funding. CSFS looks forward to continuing our partnership with Peaks to People Water Fund and bringing more impactful change to our forests, watersheds, and state."  Max Erickson, Supervisory Forester, Fort Collins Field Office, Colorado State Forest Service

"The matching funds piece is a really important part. Everybody scrambles to find the match." Michael Lester, CO State Forester (retired)