Bridge House

By 2015, when the Adolph Coors Foundation began partnering with Bridge House, programming had expanded from its beginnings as a day shelter for Boulder’s homeless into a comprehensive ready-to-work, self-sufficiency program helping homeless men put their lives together with dignity and purpose. Based on the successful Doe Fund model out of New York City, Bridge House provides temporary dormitory-style housing and paid job training in one of the organization’s two social enterprises, a commercial kitchen and a landscaping business. The Foundation was pretty excited to come across a group using this work-first approach to independence, and we have great confidence in its leader, Isabel McDevitt. In 2017, the ACF Board approved a multi-year grant to help Bridge House replicate its model in Aurora.