Get Ahead Colorado
Get Ahead Colorado provides resources to families who qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit and other resources that help them get ahead.
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ClearTax Help Colorado
Tax Help Colorado is here to help families. Community partners and dedicated volunteers help provide free tax filing assistance to families earning less than about $57,000 a year, saving them money, while receiving the best service possible.
Diverse BookFinder
The Diverse BookFinder exists to help inform the diversity and representation discussion as a whole.
It is a comprehensive collection of children's picture books featuring Black and Indigenous people and People of Color (BIPOC). They’ve cataloged and analyzed trade picture books fitting this criteria, published since 2002, to surface and create an unique circulating system, a search tool, and a source of critical data.
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Race Forward
Race Forward brings systemic analysis and an innovative approach to complex race issues to help people take effective action toward racial equity. Check out reports, trainings, tools, and more.
Office of Children’s Affairs
The Denver Mayor’s Office of Children's Affairs regularly compiles briefs, reports and presentations on child health, child population, child poverty, disconnected youth, early childhood and public school data, as well as the comprehensive Status of Denver Children report, a data-based publication containing a wealth of information specifically about Denver’s kids.
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National Black Child Development Institute
The National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI) is at the forefront of engaging leaders, policymakers, professionals and parents around critical and timely issues that directly impact black children and their families.
BCDI-Denver, the local affiliate, is a group of early childhood experts, parents and professionals who have come together to create a trusted organization that will, with support from the national office, implement programs and provide resources addressing early learning, health and wellness, family engagement and literacy. BCDI's work will engage in advocacy that focuses on achieving positive outcomes for black children and families.