Advocating for Children

  The Child Welfare System Legislative Interim Committee met throughout this summer, with significant engagement from the Kempe Foundation. This Committee, made up of eleven members of the Colorado General Assembly, focuses on Children & Domestic Matters as well as Human Services. The Kempe Foundation presented before the committee on August 22nd, 2023 with leadership from […]

Building a safe, healthy and happy future for children requires collaboration between parents, providers, and policymakers. The Kempe Foundation’s policy team collaborates with Kempe professionals, child welfare advocates and legislators to push forward child-focused policies that will improve the lives of children and families in Colorado and beyond. We work with state and national lawmakers

  We all know giving is great. We get to support initiatives and causes we are passionate about, all while helping our community. However, giving goes much deeper than surface-level help. In this blog post, we’ll explore all the ways giving is powerful. Giving is good for you! Literally. You know that warm, fuzzy feeling

  Around the month of April, for more than ten years now, you may have seen gardens of pinwheels planted in the community, at school, day care or a local hospital or nonprofit organization, and wondered, why? It’s because planting pinwheels represents the bright childhoods we all want for children. In 2008, Prevent Child Abuse

We all know that the holiday season is a time for gift-giving as well. People tend to correlate better gifts with spending more money, but great gifts don’t always have to be expensive. In a past blog post, we discussed how everyone can lend a helping hand for the children and caregivers around them. The same concept applies to the holiday season. Sometimes,

What is a fundraising page? Think of Colorado Gives Day fundraising pages as creating your own personal page for friends and family to donate to an organization of your choice. If you choose, you can build one that funnels directly to the Kempe Foundation. Here are some tips to make your fundraising page stand out.