{"id":89551,"date":"2020-04-03T18:34:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T00:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/community-emergency-relief-fund-cerf-announces-50500-in-financial-support-to-nonprofits-serving-v\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:00:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:00:03","slug":"community-emergency-relief-fund-cerf-announces-50500-in-financial-support-to-nonprofits-serving-vulnerable-populations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/community-emergency-relief-fund-cerf-announces-50500-in-financial-support-to-nonprofits-serving-vulnerable-populations\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Emergency Relief Fund (CERF) announces $50,500 in financial support to nonprofits serving vulnerable populations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CERF has announced $50,500 in grants to nonprofits on the frontlines serving the most vulnerable populations. CERF\u2019s goal is to manage the consequences of the virus and measures taken to slow its spread.  This includes efforts such as providing food, shelter, rent and mortgage assistance, utilities and behavioral health.<\/p>\n<p>The following Southwest Colorado organizations will receive CERF grants in Phase 1 of funding:<\/p>\n<p>Dolores County: R.O.C.K. Reaching Out to Community and Kids<\/p>\n<p>Montezuma County: Sharehouse\/Good Samaritan Food Pantry, Mancos FoodShare, The Pi\u00f1on Project (manages MEAC) and The Bridge Shelter<\/p>\n<p>San Juan County: San Juan Development Association<\/p>\n<p>Archuleta County: Pagosa Outreach Connection and Food Equity Coalition<\/p>\n<p>La Plata: Community Emergency Assistance Coalition (CEAC), La Plata Family Centers Coalition, Manna and Durango Food Bank<\/p>\n<p>As of March 31, CERF has raised $138,000 from local businesses and individuals. Phase 2 of the CERF Covid-19 funding will have an online grant application. For updates, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2yu6Usj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bit.ly\/2yu6Usj<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2wXuygf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bit.ly\/2wXuygf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To donate to the CERF, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradogives.org\/cerf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.coloradogives.org\/cerf<\/a>, send a check payable to the Community Foundation with CERF in the memo line to P.O. Box 1673, Durango, CO  81302 or text \u201ccredit\u2019 to 40403.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>has announced $50,500 in grants to nonprofits on the frontlines serving the most vulnerable populations. CERF\u2019s goal is to manage the consequences of the virus and measures taken to slow its spread. This includes efforts such as providing food, shelter, rent and mortgage assistance, utilities and behavioral health. The following Southwest Colorado organizations will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-89551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89552,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89551\/revisions\/89552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89551"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=89551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}