This Colorado Gives Day, your support helps achieve life-changing moments for those served by Breakthrough. Each dollar you donate is not just a contribution—it’s an investment in someone’s future.
At Breakthrough, we work with individuals who are determined to reclaim their lives after overcoming incarceration. But transformation isn’t always easy, and it doesn’t happen alone. It requires support, encouragement, and access to the right opportunities. That’s where you come in.
Your support helps individuals take meaningful steps toward personal and professional growth. It might be helping someone earn their first certification, connecting them with a job that gives them purpose and upward economic mobility, or giving them the skills to reconnect with their families and communities. With each breakthrough, the cycle of incarceration and poverty is disrupted. These moments of progress create ripples of positive change—restoring dignity, rebuilding lives, and reshaping futures.
When you choose to contribute, you’re not just providing financial resources; you’re becoming part of someone’s journey to rewrite their story. You’re helping individuals find the courage to believe in themselves again and empowering them to take charge of their lives. Your support becomes the turning point, where a fresh start turns into lasting change.
Each breakthrough our participants have has a far-reaching effect. It strengthens families, rebuilds communities, and creates a ripple effect that inspires others to seek change as well. Together, we have the power to break the cycle of incarceration and open doors to brighter futures—futures where fair chances lead to transformation, and transformation leads to long-lasting success.
This Colorado Gives Day, remember that your support today creates their breakthrough for tomorrow. You are not just giving a gift; you are giving someone the opportunity to rebuild, thrive, and contribute to society in a meaningful way. As we close the year, let’s come together to create a future filled with hope, possibility, and second chances. Your generosity ensures that these breakthroughs are not just possible—they are inevitable.
Together, we can make it happen.
To inspire positive lifelong transformation and empower people in the criminal legal system through our in-facility educational programs and re-entry care management services. We are dedicated to breaking barriers, cultivating innovation, accepting accountability, building skills, and forging meaningful connections that allow people navigating the criminal legal system to achieve their highest potential.
At our core, we are catalysts for radical transformation, driven by a commitment to enable desistance and break the cycle of systemic barriers. We prioritize a person-focused approach, advocating for access to opportunities that empower individuals to thrive. Our secret sauce lies in our ability to ignite change from the inside out, leveraging every moment to prepare people for a full and safe life.
Values:
➡️ Responsibility – We never back down from the difficult or ignore mistakes.
➡️ Inclusivity – We accept people as they are — all humans are worthy of humanity.
➡️ Optimism – We have a radical hope for tomorrow.
➡️ Empathy – Our empathy is audacious, courageous, bold, and relentless. We are open to ideas that challenge our worldview.
We believe that humans are more than their past. We believe in the power of change. Through compassion, connection, and community, we rebuild people’s lives and ultimately help them reintegrate into society—all while challenging outdated perceptions to reform how our country defines criminal justice.
Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado prides itself in transforming the lives of people with criminal histories and the community’s perception of the incarcerated population. Our holistic approach includes an in-facility career education program, community engagement, reentry support, a fair opportunity hiring program, and criminal justice advocacy initiatives.
We believe in humans, and in our shared humanity because we know that every person deserves to be seen, heard, and challenged to rise above their past to break through to a better tomorrow.
Our Program
A successful reentry begins inside correctional facilities and is dependent upon a community ready to foster a productive return. Breakthrough takes a holistic approach to community and person, and our in-facility program focuses on character development, job readiness, reentry planning, and the entrepreneurial mindset, providing an opportunity for holistic growth.
We walk alongside our participants from the inside out through our four program offerings: The Challenge, The Transformation, The Return, and The Exemplar.
The Challenge
Our innovative 32-week (8-month) in facility program focusing on character development, job readiness, reentry planning, and the entrepreneurial mindset. The Challenge builds upon itself from week to week, designed to facilitate a stable trajectory of growth.
The Transformation
Our in-facility alumni program allows opportunities for continued personal and professional development, facilitating the Breakthrough program on the inside, and providing guidance to current participants as they begin their transformational journey.
The Return
We welcome our people home and prioritize their stability in the community by helping them obtain and maintain stable employment while helping them to fill skill gaps as they embark on their chosen career path. We also connect them to trusted community partners specializing in food, housing, transportation, health care, mental health/substance abuse treatment, clothing, safety, and personal identification.
The Exemplar
This is the final stage of our participants journey once they have found stability. Our in-community alumni program provides case management services and facilitates further career development, personal growth, and entrepreneurial guidance, with access to our network of Fair Opportunity Employers.
Organization name
Breakthrough
other names
Breakthrough, Defy Ventures Colorado
2018
Tax id (EIN)
83-0636337
Category
Public & Societal Benefit
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
2130 Arapahoe Street 4th FloorDenver County, CO, US
Denver, CO, US
Colorado Springs, CO, US