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The Civic Canopy

Bringing together the many working as one for the good of all. The Civic Canopy is transforming the way we approach and solve pivotal issues in our
society.

We connect diverse groups of people seeking change in their communities and equip them with the tools to create meaningful and lasting impact. How do we drive transformative change? By creating a culture of collaboration across Colorado that is rooted in our Community Learning Model. The model is reinforced by a three-part platform of shared technology, training and technical assistance, and advocacy and engagement.

05/22/2026

The 2026 Civic Canopy Summit is in full swing! We're so excited to welcome our keynote speaker Mi'Jan Celie Tho-Biaz who is about to take the stage!

05/19/2026

Shout out to El Pomar Foundation, G&G Consulting Group, LLC, Community Foundation of the San Luis Valley, Rose Community Foundation and ChangeLine for sponsoring this week's 2026 Canopy Summit!

05/17/2026

Aquí sí nos escuchamos!” is a hands-on session led by Colorado Changemakers Collective grounded in cultural circle practices and community dialogue tools we use to address fear, misinformation, and division affecting our communities today. Inspired by Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, participants will surface generative themes from their own lived experience, engage in guided storytelling, and practice forms of conversation that reduce isolation and build mutual understanding. This session mirrors what we have consistently seen in our community work: when people have a safe space to express themselves and be truly heard, connection grows, clarity emerges, and a renewed sense of unity, hope, and collective power becomes possible.

05/15/2026

Don’t miss your chance to attend the 2026 Canopy Summit: Reviving Democracy, Reclaiming Civics!

The summit is just around the corner, from May 21-22nd in Colorado Springs. The Summit will feature 50+ leading speakers in the fields of civics and collaboration, offer 25+ workshops for participants to engage in, and provide intentional space for thought leaders from throughout our state to connect across regions and sectors.

Register today at: https://summit.civiccanopy.org/

05/13/2026

In 2025, Courageous Colorado conducted a statewide Listening Tour, visiting 20 communities to hear directly from Coloradans about courage, representation, and the future of our democracy. Those conversations inspired the Activation Tour, where local leaders began building cross-partisan teams and testing new models for civic collaboration across the state. Now, in 2026, this session—led by Dr. Landon Mascareñaz, Executive Director of Courageous Colorado and co-author of The Open System—shares how those efforts are translating into real action: community-led redesign efforts, new coalitions bridging rural and urban regions, and the growth of a statewide family of leaders redesigning democracy from the ground up. Participants will not only hear these stories—they’ll also have the opportunity to design their own open-systems process, learning how listening and activation can become practical tools for transformation in their own communities and organizations.
Register for the Civic Canopy Summit at https://bit.ly/CanopySummit2026

05/12/2026

Community Connectors empower the City of Boulder Colorado Government to make better decisions by partnering with staff to co-design culturally-proficient community engagement processes that elevate the experiences and voices of historically excluded communities. During this panel, Community Connectors themselves will share how they build trust between local government and community, increase inclusion within city decision-making, review and give feedback on Racial Equity Instruments, reduce barriers to better understand community input, facilitate ‘Building Power & Raising Voices’ sessions, amplify community needs during annual budget process, and share updates with city council. This session will also focus on how the city evolved support for Community Connectors, including on-going wellbeing programming and the co-development of a Community Connector Manual.
Register for the Civic Canopy Summit at https://bit.ly/CanopySummit2026

05/08/2026

The Summit Planning Team is excited to bring civic practitioners from across the state together for this month's Canopy Summit: Reviving Democracy, Reclaiming Civics. Registration is still open and closes on May 15. https://bit.ly/CanopySummit2026
We can't wait to see you in Colorado Springs!

05/06/2026

We are living in unprecedented times - an era that Arundhati Roy has described as a new world being born. Life in this historical moment is characterized by the many truths of a birth - it is an incredibly painful time to be alive, but also an era of great potential. Embodying democracy in this era will happen partly in the birthing rooms of governance, but primarily in the way we explore collective power in our homes, relationships and our interpersonal lives. For every midwife attending to a birth there are hundreds of hands across the village helping. Some keep the fires burning, some wrap blankets around the elders. And some walk the fields patiently gathering oats - preparing on everyone’s behalf for all that is to come. Our collective resilience and ability to create functional expressions of democracy depends on many people faithfully doing small but impactful practices, often without knowing how exactly they will be applied. Knowing how to work with the range of our nervous system, attune to our emotions effectively and access the wonders of co-regulation and play increase our somatic intelligence. As somatic practitioner and author Prentis Hemphill says, "a calm body is our most powerful body because it's the body in which we have choice." What does it take to have a resilient nervous system? Through breath awareness and gentle breath-led movement, community connection, sound, rest and other forms of somatic research, in this session led by Courageous Space we'll playfully expand our windows of tolerance, practice downregulation and explore what it takes to care for change as it is happening. Every small act or preparation and care matters - even the ones the size of an oat.

Register for the Civic Canopy Summit at https://bit.ly/CanopySummit2026

05/04/2026

Saying so long but never goodbye to our fabulous intern Matt Rathbun on who completed his semester with us today. Happy Trails Matt, you'll be missed!

04/29/2026

Thank you to Colorado Access for being a Catalyst Level sponsor for the upcoming 2026 Canopy Summit!

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3532 Franklin Street
Denver, CO
80205

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

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+13032923144

Website

http://www.civiccanopy.org/, http://coloradogives.org/organization/CivicCanopy

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