Helpful Links & Nonprofits
For an exhaustive list of nonprofits and resources in our community by type of service, check out our guide below
Pikes Peak Agency on Aging
The Pikes Peak Area Agency on Aging is a resource for people over 60 and their caregivers regarding services to age at home. We fund services in the region from transportation and meals to in home services like caregiver counseling, fall alerts, chore and personal care support. We have answers to questions seniors and families never knew to ask.
Brothers Redevelopment, Inc.
Since 1971, Brothers Redevelopment Inc. has become synonymous with affordable, safe and accessible housing solutions for Colorado’s low-income, elderly and disabled residents. Nonprofit Brothers has worked with countless supporters and tens of thousands of volunteers to provide a broad spectrum of housing-related services to hundreds of thousands of clients across the state. Brothers promotes, develops and preserves sustainable affordable housing.
Sweetgrass Advocacy (formerly Haseya)
Sweetgrass Advocacy is a Native women led nonprofit that provides direct service advocacy for Native survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking, offering healing programs for Native men, preventing elder abuse in Native communities, promoting healing from intergenerational trauma through land-based teachings and traditional Indigenous knowledge, advancing civic engagement, community leadership, and equity for Native peoples in the Pikes Peak region.
Pikes Peak Library District
Pikes Peak Library District (PPLD) is a system of 14 public libraries servingEl Paso County, Colorado. Our mission is to provide resources and opportunities that impact individual lives and build community. For more information about the library’s services and programs please visit our website ppld.org or call (719) 389-8968. PPLD also has a legal research collection at their Penrose Library location. For online legal resources please visit: https://research.ppld.org/lawandlegalresources.
Citizens Project
Citizens Project works to educate and empower people in the Pikes Peak region to embrace all members of our community, regardless of race, economic status, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, or physical or mental ability. Through our outreach, we seek to promote equity in our public spaces and challenge community members to uphold this value.
Colorado Springs Pro-Housing Partnership
Colorado Springs Pro-Housing Partnership is working to create a housing justice movement in Colorado Springs by working with communities where the affordability crisis shows up most severely: working-class tenants, neighborhoods and the unhoused community. We help members of these groups organize their buildings and neighborhoods to directly challenge moneyed interests that perpetuate the crisis of housing. Currently, we organize with two existing tenant associations, have launched a citywide tenant union, and offer organizing support to the Mill St. Neighborhood Association and Colorado Springs Homeless Union. We believe that those closest to the problem are the ones closest to the solution. Through organizing tenant unions on a building-by-building basis, we hope to help tenants directly challenge rising housing costs and poor housing conditions while creating a powerful base of tenants to affect broader policy change in Colorado Springs around housing. When paired with legal support, organizing can be an incredibly effective method to create long term positive change in one's apartment building. We encourage any tenants who want to learn more about organizing to reach out to us
CPCD Head Start
CPCD...giving children a head start is a non-profit organization providing early childhood education to children in El Paso County. Our mission is to prepare children for success in school and in life by providing excellent, comprehensive early childhood services in partnership with diverse families and the community. We currently serve just under 1,100 children, ranging from prenatal to age 5.
Centro de la Familia
Centro de la Familia empowers and supports the Latino community through advocacy, mental health services, and family programs, fostering resilience, wellness, and opportunities for all.
El Paso County Bar Association
The EPCBA Lawyer Referral & Information Service (LRIS) is designed to match you with a qualified, full-rate attorney and additional resources for your situation. LRIS attorneys charge up to $100 for their initial consultations and standard rates/fees upon retention. An online request form can be found at www.epcbalawyers.org
Colorado Legal Services
Colorado Legal Services (CLS) is a nonprofit organization that provides free, compassionate civil legal help to eligible low-income Coloradans and seniors. With 13 offices across the state, CLS supports people through life’s toughest moments helping them stay housed, resolve family law matters, obtain identification documents, tax collections and audit defense, human trafficking survivor services, issues involving public benefits and consumer debt, migrant farmworker advocacy and more. Our experienced attorneys and support staff offer a range of services, from legal advice to full court representation. CLS is dedicated to justice, community, and care for all Coloradans in need.
Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition
CIRC believes in the inherent dignity and human rights of every person, regardless of immigration status. CIRC envisions a society in which all people are treated with dignity and respect and have equal access to fair and just work, housing, health care, education and the opportunity to live united with family members.
Community Economic Defense Project
We partner with low-income and working people to build economic and racial equity. We do this by confronting economic abuse and investing in community wealth. We use an ever-evolving set of legal, economic and advocacy tools to challenge and dismantle unjust systems, building quickly towards a world where all people have what they need to live and thrive.
Pikes Peak United Way - Family Success Center
The mission of the Pikes Peak United Way Family Success Center is to serve the entire family and empower community members to become financially stable, grow, and accomplish their goals.
City of Colorado Springs' Housing and Homelessness Response and El Paso County Economic Development Department
City of Colorado Springs' Housing and Homelessness Response and El Paso County Economic Development Department administer housing resources and educate on fair housing resources.
4th Judicial Eviction Diversion Intervention – Court Assisted Recovery from Eviction
The Colorado Springs area has an Eviction Diversion Initiative, specifically through the 4th Judicial District Court, which includes the Court Assisted Recovery from Eviction (CARE) program. This program focuses on helping families facing imminent eviction by connecting them with resources related to housing, education, food security, and employment. 4th Judicial EDI-CARE has assisted over 1,000 families navigating the eviction process, conducted dozens of mediations, and partnered with over 50 community resources.
The Accompaniment and Sanctuary Coalition of Colorado Springs
At ASC COS our mission is a Pikes Peak region in which immigrants receive necessary support to thrive and do not live in fear of detention, deportation, or the separation of their family. The Accompaniment and Sanctuary Coalition of Colorado Springs seek to make the Pikes Peak region a safer place for immigrants by standing with and protecting immigrants facing obstacles in everyday life. We do this by supporting and connecting them to the valuable resources in their communities, educating our community on issues of immigration and activating volunteers in the coalition’s work, and advocating for policy change.
Home Front Military Network
Our mission is to connect military service members, veterans and their families to resources offered by our trusted community partners and to provide emergency financial assistance for rent/mortgage, utilities and transportation (car repairs). We also provide financial coaching, education, outreach, and navigation services throughout the state of Colorado.
Together Colorado
The Colorado Springs Faith Table is a regional caucus of Together Colorado, a non-partisan, multi-racial and multi-faith community organization working to place human dignity at the center of public life in Colorado. Faith drives us to organize for a better world for our children and our children's children. Leaders with Together Colorado organize to create a society where everyone can thrive, without exception. We desire a world where all people live a life of dignity, one where all people have the freedom, the ability, and the right to flourish physically, emotionally, and spiritually. We focus on five organizing campaigns: Transforming Justice, Economic Justice, Affordable Housing, Health Care, Immigration, and Climate Justice. Faith Table organizes our local faith community to discern and advocate for policy changes that bring human dignity to public life. We lift up these priorities to local city council and county commissioner policy makers as well as our state legislators; and, we engage in candidate encounters during election cycles.
Dragonfly Landing Family Services
We work with youth and families in the community to overcome struggles with everyday life we do in home services mentorship therapy we facilitate a space that kids can do online learning we have a recourse room with clothes hygiene basic needs we have food and showers if needed we would love to be apart of this event and share our space and support with the community and give any resources they might need to help with everyday life challenges.
The Justice Center
The Justice Center has been working in the Pikes Peak region to increase and promote equal access to justice since 2011. They do this through three programs: Find-a-Lawyer providing free and reduced cost legal representation in the 4th Judicial District, Ask-a-Lawyer running free legal clinics about Colorado law through the phone, over email and in person, and Learn-with-Lawyers offering free legal educational tools to attorneys, their support staff, and the general public. You can find more information on our website: www.JusticeCenterCOS.org.