OPENING DOORS TOMORROW A vision for the future.


EMILY GRIFFITH OPPORTUNITY CAMPUS


In 2015 the Emily Griffith Foundation purchased the 1800 block of Broadway (excluding Trinity Church). On the corner of 18th and Lincoln we will build a unique vertical campus that represents the values and traditions of Emily Griffith’s legacy. This new environmentally responsible building will include an array of complementary features and programs:


• A social enterprise hub for the College and other institutions to showcase their commercial activities • Three floors of structured parking • Non profit office space and a workforce development center • Childcare for students, faculty and downtown employees • 240 affordable housing units, most at 50% AMI • Non profit event space for 400 • Unique vertical garden for residents and culinary students


The Emily Griffith Opportunity Campus is based on a sound premise, to create upward mobility for families at or below 50 percent of the Area Median Income. Research studies from Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies indicate that social diversity and educational access are the key drivers to upward mobility and economic equality.


EMILY IN HAITI


We are fortunate to have highly qualified instructors and a lean yet effective administrative team. Given the current state of affairs in Haiti, we want to join the hundreds of organizations around the world to help our neighboring country recover from the devastation of the 2010 earthquake.


The Emily Griffith Technical College will collaborate with a small vocational school in Haiti, Cetemoh, founded by Duquesne Fednard to exchange faculty and students to help each other meet critical needs.


CASE: Haiti desperately needs water quality and sanitation engineers and health service providers, programs of great strength at Emily Griffith Technical College. Denver needs trained phone responders, a program that is highly successful at Cetemoh vocational school.


PROJECT: We will send a small team to Haiti and they will send a small team to Denver to firmly establish the plan for the exchange. That will occur in 2016. The result will be trained workforces enabled to use the resources that the world has provided Haiti for its rebirth and a professionally trained workforce for a growing industry in Colorado.


Following the initial exchange, the Emily Griffith Foundation will raise the funds necessary to initiate our Haitian exchange of faculty and students and become the first itinerant vocational school – perhaps a model that can be replicated and applied to other locations with significant infrastructure needs.


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