In 2024, L’Arche NOCO developed a lot of MOMENTUM...             We need your help to keep it going!

  • HOUSES:  We have purchased our 2 lots, finished our home designs, secured our construction financing, selected our builder, and submitted our permits.  We intend to start construction in the beginning of 2025 and will be aggressively soliciting donations of labor and materials for our local construction suppliers, distributors and contractors.

  • FUNDRAISING: We have attracted more than $1M to L’Arche NOCO through public funding, private donations and legacy giving. This represents about 1/3 of our total project budget and we are now preparing to launch a capital campaign in 2025.

  • ORGANIZATION: We have been approved by the State of Colorado to start new residential and community-based IDD services.

  • OPERATIONS: We have hired our first L’Arche staff person to help us launch our new services, events and volunteer opportunities.

  • COMMUNITY: With all of this momentum, we are investing effort in cultivating our community of people with and without Intellectual Disabilities, where everyone can feel welcome, be connected and truly belong.

Can you help us maintain our current MOMENTUM?

Although we have made some significant strides in the last year, we are really just getting started.  Before the end of 2024, we are hoping to raise enough funding to cover our 2025 staffing expenses and hire another full time position.  We have gotten so much traction in 2024 that we literally don’t have the capacity to keep up with it all in 2025.  To maintain our momentum, we need to grow!

Here is how you can help:

  • CHAMPION our L’Arche Northern Colorado efforts by learning more about what we are doing and exploring opportunities to become more involved.
  • INVITE others from your relational networks to take a look at us and consider how they could get involved.
  • INVEST some of your time, talents, relationships and resources in L’Arche Northern Colorado.  We need volunteers, networkers and donors to partner with in reaching our goals.  By the end of the year we hope to add at least $150,000 to our general fund to pay our two existing staff and hire another.

Please consider making a meaningful investment.

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Upcoming 2025 CAMPAIGNS

BUILD: In the first quarter of 2025 we will be launching a campaign we are currently calling “BUILD” that will be focused on soliciting donations of labor and materials from local and regional construction suppliers, distributors and contractors.  We have negotiated our construction contract to facilitate the participation of multiple organizations in hopes that we can build our homes completely debt free.

TOGETHER: In early 2025 we hope to launch a 3 year, $3M capital Campaign called “TOGETHER” which will encompass the entire budget associated with establishing a L’Arche Community here in Northern Colorado.  This will include liquidating any debt associated with our homes, establishing residential and community-based IDD services, hiring office and service/care staff, furnishing our homes, and providing “seed” money to continue to grow into other opportunities to serve.

MOMENTUM: Right now, our 2024 end-of-year campaign is continuing the “MOMENTUM” that was established in our first “LAUNCH” Campaign at the end of 2023.  For any who invested in our efforts last year, we thank you and hope that you are pleased enough with the impact we have created to join us again this year.

We appreciate your investment and your willingness to collaborate with us as partners.

We are a community of people with and without intellectual disabilities.

Thank you!

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LAUNCH 2023 CAMPAIGN

At L’Arche Northern Colorado,
we know you want to make a meaningful impact.

To make a meaningful impact in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities you need to understand their needs and to have meaningful opportunities to engage.

However, people with intellectual disabilities are often marginalized, making it very difficult for you to connect with them and to help them, leaving everyone feeling disempowered.

Like you, we believe everyone should be
valued, safe and included.

We understand how difficult it can be to find investment opportunities that effectively respond to the needs of people with intellectual disabilities.

For the last 59 years, L’Arche has been creating opportunities for our philanthropic partners like you to understand, engage and invest in meaningful impact, launching 150+ communities in 38 countries.

We create opportunities by:

  • Educating our investors, stakeholders and the public about the dignity and value of people with intellectual disabilities.
  • Gathering together in meaningful relationships with people with intellectual disabilities so that we can hear their voices and honor their choices.
  • Raising funds to launch L’Arche Northern Colorado, a new community where the people with and without intellectual disabilities live and share life together.

Why is this capacity campaign a meaningful investment?

The launch of L’Arche Northern Colorado initiates a radically different approach to meeting the needs of people with intellectual disabilities, based in deep competencies and decades of transformative experience.  We leverage the power of relationships and community to innovate service provision and create synergy with existing resources that consistently result in greater integration and significantly higher quality of life.

This launch is anchored by a deep collaborative network:

 

  • More than half a century of expertise from L’Arche USA and L’Arche International providing mentoring, coaching, consulting, professional/organizational support and oversight
  • A highly-qualified, well-connected, engaged Board of Directors and Executive Director and Community Leader
  • A committed group of long-term volunteers
  • A budding community of regular participants
  • A broad network of collaborative partners
  • Strong support from our local community
  • And a persistent need that cannot be ignored

Make a meaningful impact so all can feel
welcomed, connected and belong. 

Step 1: Launch L’Arche Northern Colorado by supporting “Launch”

Step 2: Join our community and invite others to participate

Step 3: Invest some of your time, talent, relationships or resources

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Support “Launch” …our Capacity Campaign.

We have an ambitious vision to build two homes and develop a community of 150 in the next 2 years. We have already hired a Community Leader and secured about 60% of the funding for our homes.

Our next step is to increase capacity by expanding community outreach and hiring two more staff. This means that we need to raise $250,000. We are looking for philanthropic investors, like you, who can provide financial leadership that will launch L’Arche Northern Colorado to the next level.

To set up a personal meeting with our Community Leader, Dustin Barrington, to discuss making a significant investment of time, talent, relationships or resources, please click on the orange “Campaign Leadership” button below.

To learn more about ways to get involved with L’Arche, please visit the “Get Involved” links in the header above or the footer below.

You can end the rejection and loneliness caused by exclusion. People with intellectual disabilities should feel valued, safe and included.

With your help, they can.

L’Arche Northern Colorado is registered as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Contributions to L’Arche Northern Colorado are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. L’Arche Northern Colorado’s tax identification number is 46-4029564.

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