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Denver Broncos Foundation awards grants to eight nonprofits with Inspire Change initiative

The Denver Broncos Foundation announced grants to eight nonprofits that will positively impact an estimated 800 justice-involved youth.

The Denver Broncos are stuck in neutral with a 7-7 record with three games left in the 2023 NFL season, but the organization continues to make progress off the field.

The Denver Broncos Foundation recently announced grants to eight nonprofits that will positively impact an estimated 800 justice-involved youth through the team’s Inspire Change outreach this season.

The eight foundations the Broncos will support goes as follows:

1. Cafe Momentum

2. Juvenile Assessment Center (JAC)

3. Mile High United Way’s

4. Seeing Our Adolescents Rise (SOAR)

5. Sims-Fayola Foundation

6. The Urban Farm (TUF)

7. WellPower

8. YouthZone

The Broncos’ intent is to focus on supporting at-risk and justice-involved youth with different services. The services focuses on helping limit the negative impact of the juvenile justice system and its pitfalls.

This year, the Broncos have made an impact off the field, donating $1 million to Cafe Momentum earlier this season and sponsored training for two K9 service dogs. So while Denver has made noise on the field, they are doing the same off the field, too.

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Broncos sponsor training for two ‘K9s for Warriors’ service dogs

The Broncos will sponsor the training of Bucky and Thunder, K9s For Warriors service dogs who will be paired with a veteran in need.

The Denver Broncos will sponsor the training of two service dogs in partnership with the K9s For Warriors organization. Spearheaded by Broncos owner Carrie Walton Penner and head coach Sean Payton, the sponsorship of the two dogs will help retired military veterans. The sponsored dogs are two 11-month-old black Labrador brothers named Bucky and Thunder.

Allie Engelken, the Broncos Vice President of Community Impact, stated how exciting this partnership will be.

“Through the leadership and support of Owner and Foundation Board Chair Carrie Walton Penner and Head Coach Sean Payton, we are excited to sponsor the training of Bucky and Thunder,” Engelken said in a press release.

“Affectionately named after two iconic Denver mascots, we are excited to see them grow into passionate and hard-working service dogs that will create a lasting impact on a Colorado veteran’s life.”

K9s For Warriors is a nonprofit organization that is committed to helping end veteran suicide while providing highly trained service dogs to military veterans who have PTSD and traumatic brain injury. Congrats to the Broncos for landing this partnership.

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Broncos considering making renovations to training facility

The Broncos have already started $100 million worth of renovations to the stadium. The team is also considering practice facility upgrades.

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The Denver Broncos have a new naming rights partner in Centura Health for their training facility, and some of the money from that agreement could potentially be used to make upgrades and renovations to the facility.

“As we’ve discussed, we’ve been with ownership, and we’ve looked at several other training facilities around the league,” Broncos president Damani Leech said during a press conference to announce the Centura Health partnership last week.

“We started that process over the course of the fall, and we’ll continue to do that research. Regardless of what happens with this facility — renovations, new build, etc. — it’s going to be the Centura Health Training Center.”

Leech and members of the team’s ownership group visited the facilities of the Chicago Bears, Miami Dolphins and Las Vegas Raiders, according to KUSA-TV’s Mike Klis.

The Broncos have also begun $100 million worth of stadium upgrades at Empower Field at Mile High, with the biggest renovation being a new scoreboard. Now practice facility upgrades are being considered as well.

It’s clear that the team’s new ownership group is willing to spend generously to help improve the franchise.

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