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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. Get Ahead Colorado is a program of Gary Community Investments, which includes the Gary Community Investment Company and The Piton Foundation, investing in for-profit and philanthropic solutions for Colorado's low-income children and their families.

Gary Community Investments is a sponsor of the 2021 Rocky Mountain Early Childhood Conference.

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Equity | Parents, Families, and Community

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Tax 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. Tax Help Colorado is a program of Gary Community Investments, which includes the Gary Community Investment Company and The Piton Foundation, investing in for-profit and philanthropic solutions for Colorado’s low-income children and their families.

Gary Community Investments is a sponsor of the 2021 Rocky Mountain Early Childhood Conference.

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Equity | Parents, Families, and Community

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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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Data / Research / Policy | Equity | Parents, Families, and Community | Providers and Educators

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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.

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Equity

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diversity | equity | inclusion | research

Shift Research Lab

The Piton Foundation's Shift Research Lab, formerly The Data Initiative, transforms data into actionable information that improves the social sector's ability to serve Colorado's low-income communities. By offering free information to individuals and organizations, this easy-to-use tool offers data and analysis to support community change initiatives across the region.[:es]The Piton Foundation's Shift Research Lab, formerly The Data Initiative, transforms data into actionable information that improves the social sector's ability to serve Colorado's low-income communities. By offering free information to individuals and organizations, this easy-to-use tool offers data and analysis to support community change initiatives across the region.

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demographics | Denver | health | safety