We fund American Rivers on the Colorado River Basin and other Southwest River priorities. There are many reasons life depends on rivers, especially in the West where watershed health and river conservation also protects the source of the water that 40 million people rely on.

River recreation is close to our heart. Not only does American Whitewater work on safety and access to our rivers, they also champion many stewardship priorities around these river corridors. We specifically fund their work in Colorado.

All of Audubon’s programs hit at the importance of protecting our ecosystems for the many critters that pass through. We are especially tuned in to the work they’ve championed around Colorado’s watersheds and water policies.

Bird Conservancy of the Rockies catalyzed the Central Grasslands Roadmap Initiative to increase conservation of North America’s Central Grasslands, which span 700 million acres across Indigenous Lands, Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The Central Grasslands provide critical environmental functions including water supply, soil health, climate resiliency, biodiversity, and carbon sequestration, while supporting agriculture, food security, rural economies.

We are supporting a collaborative project with CLLC and the Blackfeet Nation as they plan for climate adaptation in ways that uphold tribal sovereignty, respect traditional knowledge, and build coalition to protect nature and all it provides.

Right in our home backyard, CPRW is a champion of community collaboration working to protect the ecological health of the Poudre River Watershed.

We believe private land conservation is equally as important as working toward protection of our public lands. COL works to identify priority landscapes that are significant to agriculture and wildlife, working with land owners to put conservation easements in place for future generations.

CRSC is working to provide support, capacity, and coordination to conservation groups’ efforts working on water issues in the Colorado River Basin. We specifically provided funding for demand management demonstration projects.

Colorado’s 8.3 million acres of BLM-administered public lands make up one-third of the federal public lands in our state, yet only 8% of these lands are permanently protected through conservation designations. CWP was formed in 2020 to protect wild public lands managed by the BLM by rallying support around wildland protection in western Colorado

Running water is transformational. 30% of the families on the Navajo Nation live in homes without running water. The Navajo Water Project is working to install indoor plumbing systems, storage tanks and delivering water to off-grid homes.

We agree…the Earth does need a good lawyer. Earthjustice partners with local organizations to defend our environmental laws, fighting for a cleaner, less polluted future.

We believe in the need to support small regional watershed organizations as a piece of the big picture components of healthy resilient communities. We are specifically funding FOTY’s Yampa River Scorecard Project to establish baseline and long-term health monitoring in the Yampa Basin.

Grazing on public lands needs to change to incentivize adaptive grazing practices that restore and improve soil health, resilience to extreme weather, and productivity of the land. GGG was formed to find ways to shift federal grazing policy, support outcomes-based grazing/adaptive grazing and to connect the leadership of policy organizations with Indigenous grazing leaders.

Advocacy is an important part of building and protecting the systems that govern from democracy to public land management. Outdoor Alliance has build a voice within the Outdoor Recreation organizations across the US to advocate for America’s public lands.

Eight county, state, and federal public land agencies from north-central Colorado are actively collaborating on ways to address the challenges the mountains and foothills in this region are facing from high visitation and a growing population.

The Paddle Tribal Waters program is training a a group of indigenous youth learn to whitewater kayak in hopes of becoming the first people to paddle the restored & free-flowing Klamath river once all the dams come down by 2024. As the young paddlers reconnect sections of the Klamath River they use kayaking to galvanize a movement while reconciling a stolen history and building a future of hope and healing.

We fund the Growing Water Smart program within the many initiatives of the Sonoran Institute. GWS workshops bring leaders from a city, town, county or region together to devote entire days to learning, collaboration and planning, which lead to custom action plans, tailored to their unique needs and goals for a more resilient water future.

TWP has worked with Tribal communities for nearly 20 years supporting development initiatives in solar/renewable energy, reforestation, and economic opportunities for local people to conserve and protect their natural resources. On Tribal Lands they achieve this by building the capacity of Native American Tribes and partner orgs to work toward their community’s sustainable development goals.

Working to protect and restore the Tuolumne River watershed for present and future generations. We are specifically funding their work around policy development in the Central Valley of California.

Water Education Colorado is the only nonprofit organization working statewide with no advocacy agenda to inform Coloradans on water issues. WeCO’s Freshwater News delivers nonpartisan, policy-neutral water reporting covering the entire state, backed by expert water journalists whose goal is to make water understandable to all Colorado citizens.

We believe that working on private land stewardship is as important as public land conservation in the big goals of achieving 30x30. WLA has been a significant partner in advancing policies and practices that sustain working lands, connected landscapes, and native species across the West.

We fund WRA’s Healthy Rivers program, which includes basin-wide river management and governance policies to rebalance water demand and supply in a hotter climate, development of water conservation strategies within municipal uses, and Colorado state-wide policy development to protect river health including sustaining flows for ecosystems.

With public lands and waters under increasing threat from development and damage, Wilderness Workshop is focusing on both proactive and reactive work that addresses the growing demand for water in our region while prioritizing issues that will create lasting permanent impact for ecosystems, wildlife, and local communities.