Daniels Fund Approves $9.5 Million in Grants

By Mike Farrell -- Multichannel News, 11/29/2007 3:20:00 AM MT

The Daniels Fund, a non-profit charitable organization created by the late cable pioneer Bill Daniels, said Thursday that its board of directors has approved $9.5 million in grants at its recent fourth quarter meeting for programs serving the homeless, the disabled and the aging.

Major grant recipients include Bayaud Industries; the Colorado Parent and Child Foundation; Colorado Youth Corps; Congressional Medal of Honor Society Colorado Convention; Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Alliance Programs; Food Bank of the Rockies; Fort Carson School District Eight; Goodwill Industries of Denver; Hospice of Metro Denver; Mesa State College; Rebuilding Together Metro Denver; Seniors Resource Center; the Fund for Colorado’s Future high Horizons Project; the YESS Institute; University of Denver Bridge Project; and Warren Village.

The Fund will award $38 million in grants and $13 million in college scholarships, totaling about $51 million, in 2007. Categories eligible for grants through the fund include programs for the aging; alcoholism and substance abuse; amateur sports; disabilities; education; homeless and disadvantaged; and youth development.

“The level of funding made available through the charitable legacy of Bill Daniels is amazing,” said Daniels Fund president and CEO Linda Childears in a statement. “However, the nonprofit organizations that strengthen our communities by providing vital services continue to struggle with a lack of funding and need everyone’s support.”

The Denver-based Daniels Fund operates the Daniels Fund Scholarship Program and the Daniels Fund Grants Program in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, as well as funding programs with a national impact.