Denver Broncos Community | Dynamic In and Out of School Programming

Students reading below grade level in third grade are four times as likely as their peers to drop out of school before earning their diploma and statewide, 16.3% of K-3 students have been identified as having significant reading deficiency. Through grantmaking, programming and events, the Denver Broncos Foundation is supporting key literacy partners focused on helping students read at grade level and ensuring access to books featuring characters and storylines they can identify with.

The Foundation is teaming up with Reading Partners Colorado to ensure an additional Title I school receives individualized intervention services and one-on-one support for students who have fallen behind in reading progress and need more support than teachers and school staff can provide during the school day. The Foundation has also committed to bringing Scholastic Book Fairs to six schools in the Denver Metro Area by the end of 2025 to help students build their personal libraries.

According to the Sentencing Project, youth who are placed in diversion programming are less likely to recidivate, commit less violence, have higher rates of school completion and college enrollment and earn higher incomes in adulthood. The Urban Farm in collaboration with Denver's Public Safety Youth Services operates the HYPE: its Cultivating Change in Youth diversion programming for youth ages 14-18 focused on supporting justice-involved and at-risk youth with life skills and career pathway programming.

The Denver Broncos Foundation is ensuring 40-plus youth have access to the program annually, where they are employed the earn-while-you-learn 10-week program receiving 6.5 hours of daily programming, wraparound services, meals, and training to monitor and manage emotions, practice empathy towards themselves and others, and develop foundational strategies to help them navigate the world as adults.

Congratulations to our 2023 Grant Recipients!