Peaks to People Water Fund

Invest in Healthy Watersheds. Protect Our Water Future.

Northern Colorado’s water, communities, wildlife, and way of life depend on healthy forested watersheds. But severe wildfire threatens the forests that help protect our water supplies, and the damage can continue long after the flames are out.

Peaks to People Water Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit working to protect the forested watersheds that sustain Northern Colorado’s water. Founded in 2014, we serve as a regional connector, bringing together the people, knowledge, and resources needed to advance coordinated forest restoration.

Our Unique Role

We identify where investments can have the greatest impact, convene partners around shared priorities, and help turn science-based plans into action. By connecting public agencies, water providers, conservation organizations, funders, and land stewards, we help partners accomplish more together than any one organization could independently.

A Smarter Way to Protect Water

Not every acre faces the same risks, and not every restoration project delivers the same benefits. With limited resources and growing wildfire threats, knowing where to act matters.

Our Watershed Investment Tool helps identify high-priority areas where forest restoration can make the greatest difference in protecting water supplies. We use science and landscape-scale analysis to guide strategic investments, helping partners focus resources where they can deliver the greatest watershed benefits.

Our approach has three essential steps:

• We Prioritize. Science and innovative planning tools help identify where action can matter most.

• We Convene. We bring partners together to align priorities, coordinate across boundaries, and develop collaborative projects.

• We Catalyze. We help secure funding and connect resources to move priority projects toward implementation.

  This approach helps multiply the impact of philanthropic investments by aligning funding, expertise, and on-the-ground work around shared goals.

Results You Can Measure

Since 2017, Peaks to People has advanced meaningful progress in protecting Northern Colorado’s forested watersheds.

• 3,200 acres of forest restoration funded
• $9.5 million in project funding leveraged
• 20,000 metric tons of sediment modeled as avoided from entering water supplies

Results as of July 2026. Watershed benefits are modeled estimates.

These results reflect what strategic investment and collaboration can accomplish—and what more is possible when partners have the resources to act.

Why Your Gift Matters

Science helps identify where restoration is needed. Partnerships make coordinated action possible. Philanthropic support helps turn priorities into projects.

Your donation supports the essential work behind watershed protection: developing and applying planning tools, bringing partners together, identifying high-impact opportunities, and helping secure the resources needed to advance forest restoration.

Whether you make a one-time gift or become a monthly donor, you help invest in healthier forests, more resilient communities, and a more secure water future for Northern Colorado.

Protect What You Love. Invest Where It Matters.

Join us in protecting the forests that sustain our water and the communities that depend on it.

Invest in healthy watersheds today—and help protect our water future for generations to come.

Thank you for your support!

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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.  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