Frequently Asked Questions
We are grateful for your interest in the Salazar Family Foundation. Below, we’ve included answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about our organization. If you have further questions, please contact Polly Kuhr via telephone or email: polly@salazarfamilyfoundation.org, 303.730.7464.
The Salazar Family Foundation is a non-profit foundation established in 1999 by V. Robert and Lola Salazar.
As life-long advocates of education, Rob and Lola Salazar established the Foundation to assist in the growth and development of educational non-profit organizations. Its mission is "to impact the lifelong learning of students through supporting the growth and efforts of Foundations committed to improving the quality of education."
No. The Salazar Family Foundation supports a wider range of students by supporting other non-profit organizations that, in turn, provide funding to students and schools in need. To learn more about the programs that have received funding from the Salazar Family Foundation, please see the "Supported Organizations" page.
The Salazar Family Foundation supports The Denver Public Schools Foundation, the Jefferson Foundation, and the Latin American Educational Foundation. Website links to these organizations can be found on the “Supported Organizations” page.
The Salazar Family Foundation does not solicit donations from the general public. However, we encourage you to visit and research the organizations that we support. After years of supporting them, and seeing the results that they achieve, we believe they are well worthy of your assistance.
Here are just a few of the ways that the organizations we support use grants from the Salazar Family Foundation:
- Summer reading programs
- Computer labs
- Books provided for new school libraries
- Safe playground equipment
- Biligual learning materials