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The Colorado Project serves as a state platform for deliberation focused on challenging issues affecting Colorado. Each year, the Scrivner Institute and the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs will convene a politically and geographically diverse group of civic, political, and private sector leaders to focus intensively on a core series of locally salient public policy challenges. Each group will put civil discourse into action, and work together to produce a set of comprehensive, collaborative policy recommendations to address the challenge. The goal is to establish common ground in order to move forward with practical solutions geared toward the public good. View the inaugural Colorado Project report here.
If you are interested in learning more about the Colorado Project, contact [email protected].
Colorado Project 2.0: Rural Renaissance is a community effort to lift up how the future of Colorado is being shaped in our rural communities, exemplifying their strength and fortitude through innovation, collaboration, and impact-driven action. In 2025, we embarked on a statewide Rural Learning Tour, uncovering and scaling the most promising economic, workforce, and sustainability solutions emerging from Colorado’s rural communities. In 2026, we'll be digging deeper into the findings and stories uncovered in the Learning Tour to continue building our roadmap for inclusive and sustainable growth. Thanks to the support of the LOR Foundation, the Gates Family Foundation, and others, this project is interrogating the big questions in rural Colorado by connecting urban and rural leaders, shaping policy, and elevating rural Colorado as a national model of resilience and innovation.
Colorado Project 2.0 is building off of the findings and recommendations in the inaugural Colorado Project report.
In 2025, The Colorado Project visited communities in distinct rural regions of Colorado. In these convenings, we heard from local leaders and community partners about their most exciting innovations, collaborations, and breakthroughs aligned to The Colorado Project's priorities.
Conveners:
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In 2023, the Colorado Project convened a group of 32 community and policy leaders from throughout Colorado to design a pragmatic strategy to catalyze sustainable and inclusive economic growth in the state. The group took a comprehensive and high-level approach, working together to show how different policy dimensions – from sustainable water and energy use to addressing our workforce and housing challenges – are connected and how we can use those connections to build a more sustainable and more prosperous future for all.
Download the 2023 Colorado Project report here.
Conveners:
Scrivner Institute of Public Policy
Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs
University of Denver
Co-Chairs:
Project Team:
Collaborators:
Thank you to the generous supporters of the Colorado Project: Walton Family Foundation, Social Sciences Foundation, and individual supporters of the Korbel School's civil discourse programming.
In 2023, the Colorado Project convened a group of 32 community and policy leaders from throughout Colorado to design a pragmatic strategy to catalyze sustainable and inclusive economic growth in the state. The group took a comprehensive and high-level approach, working together to show how different policy dimensions – from sustainable water and energy use to addressing our workforce and housing challenges – are connected and how we can use those connections to build a more sustainable and more prosperous future for all.
Download the 2023 Colorado Project report here.
Conveners:
Scrivner Institute of Public Policy
Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs
University of Denver
Co-Chairs:
Project Team:
Collaborators:
Thank you to the generous supporters of the Colorado Project: Walton Family Foundation, Social Sciences Foundation, and individual supporters of the Korbel School's civil discourse programming.
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