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Access to Career Pathways Grant Spotlights
College and Career Exploration
Seventy-six percent of Colorado's top jobs require some type of postsecondary education or training beyond a high school diploma. For young people navigating life beyond high school, it can be challenging to understand their different pathways and how to achieve their goals.
The Denver Broncos Foundation is collaborating with various organizations working to make pathways clearer and more attainable for Colorado youth and starting the conversation earlier so students have time to explore diverse options when planning for their future.
Partnerships include, but are not limited to: Denver Public Schools (district-wide 8th grade career fair), Denver Scholarship Foundation (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Early College Futures Center expansion) and Aurora Public Schools Foundation (College and Career Center work-based learning expansion).
Financial Literacy
Only 10 percent of Colorado students take a personal finance course prior to high school graduation. Financial literacy programs have been shown to enhance the financial knowledge of young individuals and develop crucial skills for navigating the financial aspects of post-secondary education and career paths.
The Denver Broncos Foundation is increasing access to financial literacy programming with multi-year grant funding focused on middle school students (Young American Center for Financial Education's Young AmeriTowne) and high school students (Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain's Dream Accelerator).
The Foundation is also teaming up with Ent Credit Union to co-brand a series of Adventures in Reality simulations for nearly 1,300 students from 30 high schools across Colorado. Adventures in Reality is a program designed to provide a hands-on financial journey for high school students as they encounter real-life financial lessons and challenges to better equip them for the future.
Dress for Success Denver
Women in Colorado earn $10,000 per year less than their male counterparts and are 65 percent less likely than men to own businesses. If current trends continue, women in Colorado will not see equal pay until 2057.
The mission of Dress for Success Denver (DFSD) is to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and development tools to help women thrive in work and in life. DFSD's programs bridge the gap between economic opportunity and generational poverty.
The Denver Broncos Foundation helped launch and grow DFSD's Butterfly Bus, a mobile unit expanding the organization's reach by bringing its programming into the state and beyond its Denver location, with an increased focus on young adults under the age of 24. Each Butterfly Bus visit features career readiness programming and access to the professional clothing boutique, where each women receives six items of professional clothing in addition to shoes and accessories.
Access to Career Pathways Grants
