Major Financial Contributors

Government

  • The Youth Mentoring Collaborative     

Foundations

  • The Daniels Fund                                                          
  • The Denver Foundation                                    
  • The Rose Community Foundation                                            
  • The Adolph Coors Foundation                                                             
  • The Gary-Williams Company Employee Fund             
  • The Anschutz Family Foundation                                
  • The 2030 Denver Active Children’s Foundation                       
  • The Janus Foundation                                                
  • The Kenneth King Foundation
  • The Jefferson Foundation
  • The John Duncan Charitable Trust
  • The Denver Post Charities
  • EMSA Fund
  • The Friedman Family Foundation                                

Contract

  • The Mayor’s Office for Education and Children
  • The Denver Safe City Office
  • Abraham Lincoln High School at Denver Public Schools
  • The Denver Scholarship Foundation                 

Corporate

  • Benjamin Moore
  • Best Buy
  • Price Waterhouse Coopers
  • 1st Bank of Cherry Creek  

Community partnerships

1.      The YESS Institute is an active partner in the Youth Mentoring Collaborative. We just entered the third year.  YESS has made its greatest contribution on the very dynamic training committee. Further, the success of our college mentors working with middle school students made other mentoring agencies have another look at college students to be volunteers.

2.      The collaboration with the Community College of Denver has contributed to bringing 13 first generation minority college students to Kepner MS as mentors. At CCD, we work with Student Life, TRIO, La Mision, the Urban Culture Festival, The Black Student Alliance and Educational Talent Search.  In addition four CCD Latino students interned for a semester at YESS as assistant program specialists. Currently we are discussing with president Bleeker deeper collaborations such as providing training to freshmen to be prospective mentors.

3.      Thanks to a partnership with Olatundji Akpo-Sani and Boulder's The Community Project, G and S Mountain Recyclers, the YESS Institute gave away the 30 completely refurbished one-to-two year old Mac computers to YESS students’ families who did not have access to a computer at home.  The story was featured in the printed version of Yourhub.

4.      At the Denver Center for International Studies we collaborate closely with Arts Street using their studio, receiving help from their staff in the creation of a large mural that will be displayed at the east entrance of the school. 

5.      A year-long partnership with the Art Institute of Colorado resulted in a complete new and up-to-date website for the agency with blogging possibilities