Strengthening Neighborhoods (SN) is The Denver Foundation's grassroots neighborhood development program. SN helps residents of ten partner neighborhoods use their existing strengths and assets to make their communities better places to live.

How it works:  SN makes grants directly to residents for projects that the residents develop and lead.

Grants:  SN has two grantmaking programs:

• Planning Grants up to $500 (average grant size is $250)
• Project Grants up to $5,000 (average grant size is $2,300)]

Partner Neighborhoods:  Commerce City, Original Aurora, and the Denver neighborhoods of Clayton, Elyria Swansea, Globeville, Highland, Northeast Park Hill, Skyland, Sunnyside, and Whittier.

To begin the application process, please click here or click on the Apply link at the top of this home page.

 

To view the draft of the Holly Area Redevelopment Project Vision Plan, click here.

Click here to read the article from The Denver Post on the blessing ceremony of the Holly Square by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu Tum.  To see photos of the blessing ceremony, click here.