Native Love board members, O’olcu Buckskin and Kristean Velasquez, represented Native Love 501c3 in Denver at the end of July for the Women & Girls of Color Fund invitation; one of Native Love’s supporters and amazing women who want to see success amongst communities. The program is under the umbrella of the Women’s Foundation of Colorado (WCFO), which centers gender, racial, and economic equity in their grantmaking and investing. 

Native Love participated in a full day of programming dedicated to connection and support for women and gender-expansive leaders of color, followed by a networking reception with fellow grantees, Colorado funders, WFCO Trustees, and supporters from the broader WFCO community. This included a full day of programming with sessions on storytelling, communications, and public policy advocacy connections to advance the work participants are leading. When beautiful, powerful Indigenous women come together, great things happen!  

The latest event for Native Love was a collaboration with Durango Harley Davidson for the Four Corners Biker Rally on Sunday, Sept. 1 to bring awareness to the crisis of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Relatives (MMIR). If you are interested in volunteering for next year’s event, please reach out to Native Love by email:  Native.Love.501c3@gmail.com 

Women & Girls of Color Fund 

Women and girls of color are assets to our communities. They are thought leaders, innovators, creators, and movement makers. In 2021, WFCO deepened our commitment to meaningful, intentional investment in women, girls, and nonbinary people of color. Recognizing that many of these individuals are undervalued and underinvested in, our Women & Girls of Color fund makes explicit investments in their leadership. It is a community-developed, community-led field-of-interest fund that partners with women-of-color-led organizations that are working to advance the economic security of Colorado women and girls of color.