Emily Griffith Foundation

🍽️ Celebrating a Partnership That Helps Students Thrive! 🍳

We’re proud to celebrate our partnership with the Visit Denver Foundation, whose generous support is helping students in Emily Griffith Technical College’s Culinary Arts program pursue their education and prepare for careers in Denver’s vibrant hospitality industry.

Through this partnership, students have access to scholarships and critical wraparound support through our Essentials & Emergencies Fund. These resources can help remove financial barriers, keep students on track, and make it possible for them to focus on building the skills they need for successful careers.

The hospitality industry is an important part of Denver’s economy and identity, and we’re grateful to the Visit Denver Foundation for investing in the next generation of culinary professionals who will help shape our city’s future.

Together, we’re helping Emily Griffith students turn their passion for food and hospitality into skills, careers, and opportunity. 💙👩‍🍳👨‍🍳

For 110 years, Emily Griffith’s vision of “Opportunity for All” has helped people learn, build skills and create new possibilities for their futures.

And that vision is still going strong at Emily Griffith Technical College.

Denverite recently took a look at the College’s history, the students who are part of its future, and the people working to carry Emily Griffith’s vision forward.

At Emily Griffith Foundation, we’re proud to play a part in that work. Our donors and partners help make scholarships, emergency support, and other opportunities possible for our learners as they prepare for today’s workforce and tomorrow’s opportunities.

There’s a lot to celebrate, and even more to look forward to!

Read the full story from : https://denverite.com/2026/09/23/emily-griffith-technical-college-110-years/

At Emily Griffith, 110 years of women who won’t be deterred Denver Public Schools’ technical college has its first-ever president. Like its founder, she’s a woman.

During National Workforce Development Month, we’re celebrating the many paths our Emily Griffith Technical College learners take as they build their careers, and we’re excited to share an update from alumna Camila Sanchez! ✨

When we first shared Camila’s story, she was completing the Cosmetology program and preparing to launch her career. Since then, she has:
💇‍♀️ Completed the Cosmetology program and earned her cosmetology license
💈 Completed Emily Griffith’s Barbering Crossover program
🎉 Earned her barber license earlier this year
✂️ Gained hands-on experience at Blo Blow Dry Bar and now works at Great Clips

Camila is continuing to learn, grow her skills and build her career, and has goals of pursuing new opportunities as a both a licensed cosmetologist and barber.

We love seeing where Emily Griffith graduates take their skills, experiences, and ambitions. Every career journey is different, and every story is worth celebrating!

Read Camila’s original story: egfoundation.org/camila-sanchez

🏈 It’s Broncos Game Day! 🐴🧡💙

As the Denver Broncos kick off their regular season, we’re celebrating a partnership that helps Emily Griffith Technical College students kick off their own journeys toward brighter futures.

Thanks to a generous two-year grant from the Denver Broncos Foundation, we are supporting students ages 16–24 with scholarships and assistance through our Student Essentials & Emergencies Fund.

This partnership provides more than help paying for school—it gives students access to critical financial resources that can help them navigate life’s unexpected challenges, stay on track, and thrive.

We’re proud to partner with the Denver Broncos Foundation to help more Emily Griffith students achieve their dreams.

Go Broncos! 🐴🏈 And go Emily Griffith! 🎓

Happy 110th birthday Emily Griffith Technical College!

110 years of changing lives, opening doors, and creating opportunities! 💚⭐

From one vision to generations of students building brighter futures, Emily Griffith’s legacy is one we’re incredibly proud to carry forward. Here’s to 110 years of education, community, resilience, and helping one another. Here’s to 110! ⭐💚🤝

✨ Celebrating Workforce Development Month! ✨

As we celebrate National Workforce Development Month this September, we’re proud to spotlight our partnership with and the impact it is having on students.

Thanks to their generous support, Career and Technical Education and Registered Apprenticeship students can access critical wraparound assistance through our Essentials & Emergencies Fund. This support helps remove financial barriers that can stand between students and completing their training, entering the workforce, and building a brighter future.

This partnership is a natural fit with the Kenneth King Foundation’s funding priorities, which focus on removing barriers to employment and connecting people to the training, resources and supports they need to succeed.

Workforce development is about more than preparing people for jobs; it’s about ensuring they have the support they need to reach their goals and thrive along the way.

We’re grateful to the Kenneth King Foundation for helping Emily Griffith learners stay on track, complete their training, and move toward family-sustaining careers. 💙

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For 110 years, Emily Griffith Technical College has been the heartbeat of Denver’s economy. Long before "workforce development" was an industry phrase, Emily Griffith herself opened the doors of the Opportunity School with a radical mission: to give every learner, regardless of background, the practical skills to secure a good job and build a life.

Today, our legacy lives on in every licensed nurse, skilled electrician, certified welder, and English language learner driving Colorado forward.

At Emily Griffith Foundation, we strive to ensure cost is never a barrier to that vision. By funding scholarships, wraparound student support, and programmatic investments, our community of donors and partners helps turn education into immediate economic mobility.

As we celebrate workforce leaders across the nation this September, we want to thank the partners, employers, and supporters who power our students' success. Together, we aren't just filling jobs; we’re building Colorado’s future.

💡 Want to help empower the next generation of Colorado’s workforce?

Learn more and support a student today: https://www.egfoundation.org/donate

Donate — Emily Griffith Foundation 60% of the College’s Career and Technical Education graduates report having graduated with no debt at all, including credit card debt, personal loans, or other personal debt. 

A new school year. New beginnings. And students continuing to move forward.

Today marks the first day of the 2026–27 school year at , and with it comes another year of students building skills, pursuing new careers, and creating opportunities for themselves and their families.

Among them is Nina Marie Crihfield, who is returning this year to complete her Practical Nursing program. Nina first came to Emily Griffith in 2016 to earn her Nurse Assistant certificate. After graduating with a 4.0 GPA and building a career in caregiving, she returned to continue her education and take the next step toward becoming a nurse.

Nina’s story is one of many. Every year, students come to Emily Griffith with determination and goals, and sometimes with financial barriers that can make completing a program difficult. That’s where a strong community of donors and partners makes a difference.

Through scholarships, emergency assistance, and other forms of support, Emily Griffith Foundation helps students stay enrolled, complete their programs, and move into careers that strengthen Colorado’s workforce and communities.

Today, we’re celebrating Nina and the many returning students continuing their journeys, as well as the new students beginning theirs.

And we’re grateful to everyone who helps make those journeys possible. 💙

Here’s to the 2026–27 school year!

We’re so honored to see our "Women at Work: Celebrating Women in Trades & Technical Careers" event featured in Cherry Creek Lifestyle magazine! ✨

This year’s event was our biggest to date, bringing together an inspiring community dedicated to supporting women breaking barriers in skilled trades and technical industries.

Flip to page 14 in the August issue to check out the spotlight: https://citylifestyle.com/cherrycreek/issues/2026-08

A huge thank you to everyone who attended, sponsored, and made this record-breaking celebration possible. We’re already counting down to our 2027 celebration!

We are thrilled that the new Entrepreneurship Studies program at Emily Griffith Technical College was featured on the ColoradoBiz website this week!

We at Emily Griffith Foundation are especially proud to be providing scholarships for the students in this program, helping to open doors for local, aspiring business owners and give them access to essential skills, mentorship, and business training without tuition barriers.

And a huge thank you to our amazing partner Huntington National Bank ! Their incredible support, expertise, and active involvement in the program will help bridge the gap for our graduates and make a lasting impact across the community.

Check out the full story on ColoradoBiz: 👉 https://coloradobiz.com/emily-griffith-launches-entrepreneurship-program-denver-graduates/

Emily Griffith Technical College launches entrepreneurship program Emily Griffith Technical College launches a part-time entrepreneurship program to help Denver graduates turn skills into businesses with support from Huntington Bank.