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News: COVID-19 Response Grants

Throughout 2020, Gates Family Foundation shifted a significant amount of its grantmaking capacity from predetermined priorities into a responsive grantmaking pool of funds, to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Grants provided immediate relief for nonprofits in the areas of public health, food security, and service to highly impacted populations, in addition to a number of contributions to pooled funds for systemic support.


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Colorado Succeeds

$10,000 | Awarded: 2020

Toward the COVID-19 Colorado Restaurant Response

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DreamSpring

$50,000 | Awarded: 2020

To launch a Relief & Recovery Fund that supports interest-only or deferred payments for existing loans, new business recovery loans, and support services to

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Enterprise Community Partners Inc.

$40,000 | Awarded: 2020

To implement the Emergency Action for Resident & Partner Sustainability program in Colorado, and to address affordable housing policy issues during this period of

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Family Resource Center Association Inc.

$45,000 | Awarded: 2020

To support COVID response efforts by Family Resource Center Association members serving rural and underresourced parts of Colorado, with a preference for organizations serving

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First Southwest Community Fund

$50,000 | Awarded: 2020

A grant to support the technical assistance program, loan loss reserves, and administration of the Rapid Response and Recovery Loan Fund

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Rocky Mountain Microfinance Institute

$50,000 | Awarded: 2020

To support the Entrepreneur Responsiveness Package, which provides stabilizing microgrants, a three-month loan payment holiday, and a “pivot accelerator” grant and capacity building initiative

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Sistahbiz

$25,000 | Awarded: 2020

To support black female entrepreneurs as they navigate the economic fallout and recovery of COVID-19

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First Southwest Community Fund

$500,000 | Awarded: 2020

An impact investment (at 0% interest for seven years) to support the capitalization of the Rapid Response and Recovery Loan Fund the technical assistance