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Area club matches mission with Denver metro organizations
By Wendy Moraskie
A woman recovering from trafficking focuses on rebuilding her physical and emotional health. A single mom, brought to this country as a child, finds support for her children’s schoolwork at a community center. Young women learn about creating something larger than themselves through music. These projects and more received Zonta Club of Denver’s 2025 grants.
On Feb. 13, Zonta Club of Denver presented checks totaling $25,750 to local organizations. Women served by Focus Points Family Resource Center, Denver Young Artists Orchestra, Beautiful Feet Wellness, and the Center for African Family Integration benefited from the club’s 2024 fundraising efforts.
The grants fund practical projects to help at-risk women build strong, healthy lives. The 2025 grants focus on tutoring for first generation Americans who hope to attend college, music instruction for girls in Denver schools without those programs, healing and professional development for trafficking survivors, and leadership training for women from under-resourced neighborhoods.
Funds also support scholarships for young women in aerospace, business, and public affairs.
ZCD’s fundraising efforts center on its annual Day of Film, which over 16 years has highlighted national and international stories of women overcoming challenges for themselves and others. Its 17th Day of Film, scheduled for April 5, features “A Good Neighbor,” a locally filmed and produced feature-length documentary about a Latina single mother’s fight against racism and climate change as she campaigns for City Council in Commerce City, one of the nation’s most polluted zip codes.
To find out more about the film event and the Zonta Club of Denver, visit www.zontadenver.org.
Chartered in 1927, Zonta Club of Denver is part of Zonta International, uniting over 29,000 members in more than 1,100 clubs across 64 countries to empower women and children. ZCD members volunteer hundreds of hours annually and have donated over $2 million in their 98-year history.