Powering Positivity
Within our service territory there are several nonprofit organizations that bring value to the community or communities they help support. Member Choice Grants allow our members to nominate a nonprofit organization within the cooperative's service territory to receive grant funds from United Power. These grants will help them continue to work toward accomplishing their mission and serve the local community. In this way, we are able to support the causes our members truly care about.
Nominating an organization to receive a Member Choice Grant is as simple as filling out the form below and providing a brief reason why you feel the organization should receive the grant.
2026 Member Choice Grant nominations will open soon!
Members Select Nonprofits to Receive Cooperative Grants
Grace Bible Food Pantry
The Grace Bible Food Pantry distributes 400 food boxes weekly. Each box feeds a family of four and contains protein, fresh produce, dairy, bread, and shelf-stable items. The grant will be used to bolster the pantry's food supply, which has been limited in 2025, and will allow the pantry to better serve the community.
Kids in Need of Dentistry
Kids in Need of Dentistry provides dentals services to thousands of children at its two clinic locations and through its school-based Chopper Topper program. The grant will help the organization cover costs and fill gaps.
Adams County 4-H
4-H is designed to meet the interests of the youth. It helps youth discover and develop life skills and set personal goals. Programs are grounded in the belief that kids learn best by doing. Kids and teens complete hands-on projects in areas like science, health, agriculture, and civic engagement in a positive environment where they receive guidance from adult mentors and are encouraged to take on proactive leadership roles.
Brigit's Bounty
Brigit’s Bounty offers food to the local community. All food grown at its one-acre Giving Garden in Frederick is donated to community members in need. Its goal is to be a community resource with low-cost youth programs; fresh produce for residents in need; and educational resources about gardening, nutrition, and the environment.
Feline Fix
Feline Fix is Colorado's leading spay/neuter source for free-roaming "community" cats and a provider of quality and affordable spay/neuter services for pet cats. It has championed the welfare of all cats for more than two decades with focus areas including adoption and fostering, wellness treatments, and humane TNR assistance.
Woof & Willow Puppy Rescue
Woof & Willow Puppy Rescue is a small but passionate foster-based rescue devoted to saving pregnant dogs, nursing litters, and at-risk puppies — often those with no other options. Woof & Willow believes that compassion toward animals reflects — and fosters — kindness among people. While working toward long-term solutions in collaboration with other organizations, Woof & Willow pulls as many dogs from euthanasia lists and unsafe conditions, with the belief that saving lives inspires others to do the same.
Members Select Nonprofits to Receive Cooperative Grants
Adams County Food Bank
The Adams County Food Bank helps relieve food insecurity among families, seniors, and children in Commerce City, Thornton, Westminster, and across 34 zip codes throughout the county. It is the largest organization in Adams County working to alleviate hunger.
Crescent Park Community Fire Protection Association
The association’s mission is to protect people, properties, animals, and the environment from wildfires through outreach, education, and fire mitigation, and creating defensible space and emergency evacuation plans.
Community Uplift Partnership (CUP)
Young adults are some of the most vibrant people in our communities. Community Uplift Partnership (CUP) reminds them they have value beyond a paycheck, strengthens them to conquer barriers to employment opportunities that provide sustainable wages, and equips them to make better decisions for their futures.
Happiness Through Horses
Happiness Through Horses enriches the lives of individuals of all ages, with a special emphasis on youth, through meaningful interactions with horses and sanctuary animals. They offer programs promoting mental health, personal growth, and educational development.
Sparkling Kindness
Sparkling Kindness is a small nonprofit operating out of Commerce City. It provides support to the local community by distributing basic hygiene kits, feminine hygiene kits, and “comfort” kits (consisting of fleece blankets, socks, stuffed animals, coloring books, crayons, and chapstick).
Stand & Fight
Stand & Fight seeks to encourage children enduring life-threatening illnesses by awakening their warrior within. They take a stand for dignity and positivity during medical treatment while recognizing the courage needed to fight. Stand & Fight offers recognition as well as port and picc-line adaptive apparel, in addition to other items.
Members Select Nonprofits to Receive $12,000
4-H Tail Twisters
Tail Twisters is a local 4-H Club based in Fort Lupton, providing hands-on, real-world learning that takes place in the community where youth have the opportunity to develop relationships, skills, and leadership, with a focus on “learning by doing.” The grant will be used to make blankets for nonprofits serving the local community.
Brigit’s Bounty
Brigit’s Bounty offers food to the local community. All food grown at its one-acre Giving Garden in Frederick is donated to community members in need. Its goal is to be a community resource with low-cost youth programs; fresh produce for residents in need; and educational resources about gardening, nutrition, and the environment.
Erie Food Bank
The Erie Food Bank provides food assistance to those in need in Erie. It primarily supplies perishable and supplemental items that are not received through organized food drives, as well as provides assistance with utilities. Food bank volunteers also prepare holiday meal baskets.
Graceful Oaks Youth Ranch
Graceful Oaks serves the Weld County community by working with kids and providing trauma informed animal therapeutic services. They also offer the Empowering Youth Leadership Program for teens, helping them build a foundation in leadership, including career and business skills.
Pastor’s Pantry
Pastor’s Pantry is a food pantry operating out of the Whispering Pines Church, providing food and pantry supplies to those experiencing food insecurity in Coal Creek Canyon and the surrounding area. It is open to the public and you do not need to attend the church to receive help.
Pennock Center for Counseling
Pennock Center exists to fill a gap in mental health services by increasing access to care through the use of a sliding fee scale to determine the cost for counseling services. The center also adjusts fees to meet the needs of those experiencing financial hardship.
2022 Member Choice Grant Recipients Selected
To receive a Member Choice Grant, nominated organization must be a 501(c)3 nonprofit operating within the cooperative's service territory and serving United Power members. Organizations that further religious doctrines or political parties are not eligible for Member Choice Grants. Organizations that participate in "re-granting" programs are also not eligible to receive Member Choice Grants.