Gay & Lesbian Fund | Committed to Colorado

Public Broadcasting

About Public Broadcasting

The Gay & Lesbian Fund supports public radio and television programming throughout Colorado because it entertains, informs, and inspires thoughtful discussion about issues facing us as Coloradans. We proudly support stations located in cities like Durango, Colorado Springs, Grand Junction, and Greeley.

We invested $125,000 in 16 Colorado nonprofit organizations in our Public Broadcasting program area in 2010. The public broadcasting stations we supported ranged from KRCC Radio at Colorado College and KUNC Community Radio in Northern Colorado to Rocky Mountain PBS and Colorado Public Television.

Click here to review all 2010 grants from the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado

Featured Grantee

The story above focuses on KAFM Community Radio in Grand Junction, one of our 2010 Public Broadcasting grantees. KAFM 88.1 reaches more than 130,000 listeners weekly across western Colorado and online. The volunteer-operated station strives to not only provide music programming that is diverse and entertaining, but also local news that is reflective of all people in the Grand Junction community, creating dialogue around shared values and common goals.

16

The number of Colorado Public Broadcasting organizations supported by the Gay & Lesbian Fund in 2010

$125,000

The total dollar amount the Gay & Lesbian Fund invested in Colorado Public Broadcasting organizations in 2010

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Welcome to the website for the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado

We’d like to update you on some important news.

In 2012, we announced we would take a break from all new Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado grantmaking to undergo a strategic reevaluation. As of December 2012, we are nearing the end of this reevaluation period and a focused branding evaluation.

Due to exciting changes in the fund’s grant program areas, the content available on this website is now outdated. We will be closing this website and incorporating Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado updates into the Gill Foundation’s website by April 2013.

Going forward, the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado will now encompass all previously-existing Colorado programs and grants of the Gill Foundation, as well as a new program area in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education.* The foundation’s six Colorado program areas that will be known as Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado grants are:

Five previously existing and well-defined grant program areas of Gill Foundation:

  • Colorado safe and inclusive schools that prevent bullying and harassment
  • Colorado progressive civic engagement and communications grants
  • Colorado public broadcasting grants
  • Colorado HIV services
  • Colorado lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) services and advocacy

One new grant program area:

  • Colorado science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education

* Our new STEM strategy will be refined over the course of the next 18 months.

PLEASE NOTE: We will not be accepting any unsolicited letters of interest or grant applications.

We are excited for this next chapter with the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado and believe that we can have an even greater impact in building a better Colorado together. Please check the Gill Foundation’s website in late 2013 for any grantmaking updates: www.gillfoundation.org.

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