Community
Partnership
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Team Up Community Partners receive exclusive non-profit benefits and the opportunity to engage with Team Up’s innovative and effective collaborative work.
Partner benefits include discounted memberships, professional support, education, and networking opportunities. Community Partners are exclusively eligible to apply for our Team Up Competitive Grant.
Who Are Team Up Community Partners?
To maintain a Team Up Community Partnership, your organization must be an established 501(c)3 or have an established fiscal sponsorship agreement and engage in work that helps improve lives through one of the following areas:
Fostering Healthy Communities
Financial Security
Youth Opportunity
Community Resilience
What Do Team Up Community Partnerships Look Like?
Team Up Community Partnerships are not all the same. There are multiple ways to partner with Team Up:
Collaborate with our cohort of individuals, nonprofits, businesses and government entities on one of Team Up’s Action Teams.
Apply to be an official Team Up Community Partner to access exclusive nonprofit benefits and expand your reach and impact.
Become an AmeriCorps Host Site by hosting an AmeriCorps member to help your organization expand or launch new projects.
Let us take on your admin so you can focus on your mission when you become fiscally sponsored by Team Up.
Intrigued by our partnership benefits?
Learn more about each channel to partnership with Team Up:
Current Community Partners
Donations to some of our Community Partners qualify for Tax Credits
Partners eligible to receive the Colorado Childcare Contribution Tax Credit are notated with an *
Partners eligible to receive the Enterprise Zone (EZ) Contribution Tax Credit are noted with a ^
When making your Tax Deductible Donation, include the organization(s) you wish your gift to go toward when prompted at checkout. We’ll follow up with the rest!
Alternative Horizons
Animas Alano Club
Boys & Girls Club of La Plata County*
The Arc of Southwest Colorado
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Colorado*
Community Connections
Conservation Legacy: SW Conservation Corps
Companeros: Four Corners Immigrant Resources
Durango Adult Education Center
Habitat for Humanity of La Plata County^
Housing Solutions for the Southwest
The Liberty School
La Plata Family Centers Coalition
Manna
Montelores Early Childhood Council*
Seeds of Learning
Sexual Assault Services Organization (SASO)
Women’s Resource Center
Volunteers of America: Southwest CO
The Powerhouse^
The Hive
Southwest Colorado Education Collaborative
Rainbow Youth Center
The Good Food Collective^
4CORE
Pagosa Community Initiative
Mountain Studies Institute
San Juan Mountains Association
School Community Youth Collaborative
Early Childhood Council of
La Plata County*
Southwest Colorado Community Action Agency
Colorado Income Tax Credits
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The Childcare Tax Credit allows a 50% tax credit up to $100,000. It was created in 1998 and is available to taxpayers who contribute to child care, early childhood education, foster care, youth shelters, residential treatment centers, before and after-school programming, and grant programs to help families afford child care.
Team Up is proud to offer this tax credit to our donors through our following Community Partners:
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Colorado
Boys and Girls Club of La Plata County
Early Childhood Council of La Plata County
Montelores Early Childhood Council
Seeds of Learning
Treehouse Early Learning Center (Pinon Project)
The Piñon Project Family Resource Center
Learn more about the Colorado Child Care Tax Credit here.
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The Colorado Enterprise Zone (EZ) Tax Credit lets our donors take advantage of a 25% tax credit for gifts to qualifying Community Partner organizations.
Team Up is proud to offer this tax credit to our donors through our following Community Partners:
Habitat for Humanity of La Plata County
Manna Durango
VOA of Durango Community Shelter and Safe House
Learn more about the Colorado EZ Tax Credit here.
To take advantage of of either of these tax credits, visit our Donation Page, designate your gift to one or more of the above organizations (minimum donation of $250 per organization), and Team Up will send you the appropriate tax form.
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