Welcome to Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Online.
We hope that our new and enhanced website provides a clear and helpful understanding of the Foundation’s values, interests, strategies and practices.
We believe that the social and economic importance of Colorado’s nonprofit sector is significant and growing. At the same time, we recognize that the job of nonprofit leaders has become more complex, the competition for resources more intense, and the expected results more precise and demanding. In response, our Foundation has chosen to support and strengthen the sector through investments in nonprofit leadership and organizational capacity.
This approach was inspired by our founder, Charles E. Stanton, who established the Bonfils-Stanton Annual Awards program more than 25 years ago. These awards recognize outstanding Coloradans both to bring acclaim to their efforts and to motivate others to greater accomplishment. In this spirit, we also invest in organizational transformation through the Catalyst Partnership Program and sector leadership through the Livingston Fellowship Program. As investors, we seek organizations and leaders with proven track records and the commitment to achieve greater impact. We invest in their vision, engage with them as partners, and become stakeholders in their success.
Transformation and change, whether in organizations or individuals, is not easy. We believe that our Catalyst Partners, Award honorees, and Livingston Fellows have learned lessons and gained insights that can be of value to others. Our website includes some of those lessons, and we encourage you to review the profiles of selected Catalyst Partners, Q&A’s with our most recent Award honorees, and reflections from Livingston Fellows.
While we recognize the importance of our grantmaking activity, we strive to add value to the nonprofit sector beyond the dollars we award. By convening groups to address broad-based issues and collaborating with other funders, we strive to leverage our impact and reach. You will see examples of partnership and collaboration in the various sections of our website.
We have worked to make our website fresh, engaging and informative, and we welcome your comments. We hope you will visit often as we will be adding information, stories, and lessons as part of our continuing commitment “to advance excellence” – in our own work, the work of our partner organizations, and the work of Colorado’s nonprofit sector.
Dorothy Horrell, President and CEO