New Colorado grant program seeks nonprofit applicants

Colorado’s Department of Local Affairs is seeking small nonprofit applicants for its Nonprofit Infrastructure Grant Program.

The program is a statewide grant program for small, communitybased, nonprofit organizations with annual budgets between $150,000 and $2,000,000 that provide services to communities that have historically been underrepresented, underserved or under-resourced. The grant is not for programming, but provides for other needs such as strategic plan-

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The application will open on July 5 and close on Aug. 31.

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When the topic of a school district keeping parents out of the loop about their children rst started coming up two years ago – I didn’t give it much thought. I believed if the school is going to send a note home or call when they administer a small dose of Tylenol, then they surely would notify me of other, more serious issues.

Recently, the Douglas County School District took up the issue of pronouns and parent involvement. While I disagree with ignoring a student’s preferred pronouns – I am OK with the idea of communicating with parents.

A lot of the debate has come as more students are going by di erent pronouns or considering a gender transition. In 2022, a New York Times article said, “Educators are facing wrenching new tensions over whether they should tell parents when students socially transition at school.”

In the article, a parent told a story about her female student identifying as a male student only at school — writing a di erent name on home-