How We’re Funded
The Colorado Cancer Coalition is primarily funded through contributions to the Colorado Cancer Fund, which Coloradans can support through the Voluntary Contributions Schedule on their state income tax return. These contributions are the Coalition’s main source of funding and help sustain our work year-round.
Additional support comes from direct donations, partnerships, and sponsorships of activities such as our Annual Symposium. This flexible funding allows the CCC to respond to emerging needs, support collaborative projects, and invest in efforts that advance cancer prevention and care across Colorado.
How We Use Our Funds
The Colorado Cancer Coalition uses its funding to support statewide collaboration, education, cancer prevention and control efforts, and the infrastructure needed to keep this work moving forward.
For our 2026 budget, funding is allocated approximately as follows:
- 58.2% — Personnel & Benefits
Supporting the staff who coordinate Coalition programs, partnerships, Task Forces, communications, events, and statewide initiatives. - 15.2% — Communications & Fundraising Support
Supporting specialized communications, outreach, tax checkoff promotion, and fundraising expertise. - 9.0% — Annual Symposium
Supporting our statewide annual gathering, including venue, food, accessibility services, speaker support, marketing, and attendee needs. - 7.8% — Task Forces
Providing dedicated resources for Coalition Task Forces to advance cancer-specific priorities, education, outreach, and collaborative projects. - 5.1% — Operating Costs
Supporting essential tools and services such as website hosting, supplies, translation, communications, and other day-to-day program needs. - 3.9% — Administrative Support
Covering shared organizational infrastructure and administrative costs that allow the Coalition to operate effectively. - 0.8% — Travel
Supporting staff participation in meetings, outreach, and activities across Colorado.
What Your Support Makes Possible
Your support helps the Colorado Cancer Coalition bring people together and turn collaboration into action. Funding sustains the statewide infrastructure, education, partnerships, and volunteer-led Task Forces that make our work possible.
With the support of Coloradans and our partners, the CCC is able to:
- Bring experts and communities together to identify gaps, share best practices, and coordinate cancer control efforts across the state.
- Provide trusted cancer education and resources, including webinars, educational videos, newsletters, screening resources, and Spanish-language programming.
- Support 10 volunteer-led Task Forces working across cancer prevention, screening, treatment, patient navigation, survivorship, and priority populations.
- Strengthen access and support for patients and families, from culturally responsive cancer support groups to survivorship resources and patient navigation.
- Advance statewide cancer priorities through the Colorado Cancer Plan, data-informed planning, community input, and partnerships with organizations throughout Colorado.
- Create opportunities for connection and shared learning, including the Colorado Cancer Coalition Annual Symposium and community-based events across the state.
In 2025 alone, the Coalition supported 65 Task Force meetings, seven educational webinars, four in-person events, 24 Cancer Plan meetings, and six CDPHE projects supported by Task Forces, while reaching thousands of Coloradans through our newsletters, website, educational resources, and community partnerships.
Every contribution helps strengthen Colorado’s collective ability to prevent cancer, improve early detection and care, support survivors and caregivers, and reduce the impact of cancer across our state.
Stay Connected
