March 2, Thursday, 4:30 to 7 p.m., join United Way of Weld County in Berthoud for BizWest’s 2023 Community Builder Awards as we celebrate the United Way-managed Northern Colorado Continuum of Care being named Nonprofit Collaboration of the Year. Please let Lyle SmithGraybeal know if you are attending so he can look for you and say hello. More details and register at the BizWest website.
The Northern Colorado Continuum of Care (NoCO CoC) is a two-county collaboration of 40+ member organizations working together to make homelessness rare, short-lived, and non-recurring in Larimer and Weld counties. Founded in early 2016 and then officially recognized by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in January 2020, the shared effort has helped over 1,500 households regain and keep housing, a number that includes over 500 veterans.
Managed jointly by Homeward Alliance of Fort Collins (data) and United Way of Weld County (general management and resource mobilization), the NoCO CoC aligns and enhances the work of homeless serving organizations in the two counties to achieve greater results than any one entity can get to on its own. The effort is overseen by a governing board with membership from the three largest municipalities (Fort Collins, Greeley, and Loveland), the two county governments, and leading nonprofits.
As a resource-attracting organization, since its full launch in early 2020, the NoCO CoC has already brought nearly $4 million for the work of ending homelessness in Northern Colorado. A full list of NoCO CoC member organizations can be found at www.nocococ.org/cahps.
