Give to Create Healthy Futures
Every child deserves to feel safe and supported. Yet too many children in Colorado have experienced trauma and instability that make it hard to trust or belong.
At Tennyson Center for Children, we provide the care and connection that help children and families rebuild their lives. Across our Therapeutic K–12 School, Day Treatment and Residential Programs, and Community Based Program that supports families in communities statewide, we walk alongside children and caregivers as they find hope and healing together.
Cottages of Hope: Where Healing Feels Like Home
This year, your gifts support Cottages of Hope, a transformational campaign to renovate and reimagine Tennyson’s on-campus cottages into warm, nurturing homes where children who have experienced severe trauma, abuse, and neglect can finally feel safe and begin to heal.
For many of the children we serve, these cottages become the first real home they’ve ever known and a place to rest and reclaim joy.
Your generosity helps us provide calming bedrooms, cozy spaces, and therapeutic environments that foster connection and stability.
What Your Gift Can Do:
Cottage Furnishings
Furnish a cottage with trauma-informed elements to create a healing home for children ages 6–16.
Includes:
- Prominent naming recognition
- Feature story in annual impact report
- Private tour
- Custom volunteer day for you and your family or company
- Ongoing impact updates and recognition on campaign website page and social media
- Invitation to Cottages of Hope celebration on January 14, 2026
Recreation Center, Teaching Kitchen, or Technology Lab
Support spaces that nurture connection, growth and skill-building.
Includes:
- Naming recognition on selected area
- Recognition in annual impact report, campaign website page, and social media
- Exclusive impact tour
- Feature in newsletter
- Invitation to Cottages of Hope celebration on January 14, 2026
Learning Center, Creative Arts Studio, or Family Therapy Room
Fuel imagination and emotional expression through art, reading, and family reunification.
Includes:
- Naming recognition on sponsored space, in annual impact report, and on campaign website page and social media
- Invitation to Cottages of Hope celebration on January 14, 2026
Experiential Therapies and Community Adventures
Make healing experiential; fund art, music, yoga, equine, or recreational therapies, plus community outings and enrichment.
Includes:
- Recognition in annual impact report and on campaign website page and social media
- Invitation to Cottages of Hope celebration on January 14, 2026
A Child’s Bedroom
Outfit a child’s bedroom with comfortable furniture and décor that help kids feel safe and valued.
Includes:
- Plaque outside room with donor name for one year
- Recognition in annual impact report and on campaign website page and social media
- Invitation to Cottages of Hope celebration on January 14, 2026
Furnish a Kitchen and Dining Area
Fund the heart of the cottage where kids and staff share meals, laughter, stories, and moments that rebuild trust.
Includes:
- Recognition in annual impact report and on campaign website page and social media
- Invitation to Cottages of Hope celebration on January 14, 2026
Supply Creative and Expressive Tools
Provide essentials for art therapy or hands-on learning.
Includes:
- Recognition in annual impact report and on campaign website page and social media
Provide Lighting, Sensory Tools, or Safety Equipment
Promote calm, security and comfort for children processing trauma with warm lighting, sensory tools like weighted blankets and stress balls, and safety equipment like first-aid kits.
Supply Fresh, New Bathroom Essentials
Supply new towels, toiletries, and décor that turn a sterile bathroom into a place of dignity.
Welcome Kit for New Residents
Provide a suitcase with bedding, pajamas, slippers, toiletries, and comfort items for each child arriving at Tennyson.
Basics That Help a Child Settle into a New Home
Provide cozy blankets, books, and games for shared sessions and reclaiming childhood.
Together, we’re not just updating buildings.
We’re creating hope where healing feels like home.
Colorado Child Care Contribution Credit
Your generosity goes even further through the Colorado Child Care Contribution Tax Credit (CCTC).
This program allows individuals, estates, trusts, and corporations to claim a 50% credit on qualifying monetary gifts (up to $100,000) made to Tennyson Center for Children. Combined with other deductions, this often means you can donate three times the size of gift with the same cost to you.
Example: A $1,000 gift can cost you as little as $300 after your Colorado tax credit.
To learn more about how the credit works or to confirm eligibility, please contact Nick Wininger at [email protected] or call 720-855-3317.
Donate While You Shop
It’s easy to donate to Tennyson through RoundUp, Amazon Smile and King Soopers or City Market!
- RoundUp: simply download the app, make an account, and choose Tennyson to donate your change to.
- King Soopers or City Market Community Rewards Program: visit kingsoopers.com or citymarket.com. Once logged into your account, simply search for Tennyson Center for Children by name or use our organization code XV985 then click Enroll. New users will need to create an account that requires some basic information, a valid email address, and a loyalty card
