Fostering Community-Driven Solutions
TruNorth Foundation
TruNorth Foundation is the 501(c)(3) arm of TruNorth Institute, dedicated to fostering healing, self-actualization, and systemic transformation. Through holistic wellness, leadership development, and culturally grounded programming, we create safe spaces for connection, empowerment, and breakthrough moments that lead to thriving futures.
Our Work
At TruNorth Foundation, we are reimagining leadership development and economic empowerment through holistic, community-driven solutions. As the nonprofit arm of TruNorth Institute, we provide culturally affirming, non-clinical recovery services, workforce development, and leadership training to help individuals move from surviving to thriving.
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Rooted in racial justice, equity, and self-determination, our programs disrupt traditional barriers to wellness and create sustainable pathways to transformation. Whether through peer-led healing circles, mentorship programs, or economic mobility initiatives, we are building a future where individuals and communities don’t just heal—they thrive.
Who We Serve
Serving Denver and statewide residents, many of our participants have experienced systemic barriers to wellness and recovery, including economic instability, workplace discrimination, chronic stress, and intergenerational trauma.
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Our Programs address:​
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Lack of access to holistic mental health support
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High rates of economic and social instability
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Mistrust of traditional clinical treatment models
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Disconnection from cultural identity in healing spaces
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Our approach addresses behavioral health recovery to individuals who face systemic barriers to care and/or who feel disenfranchised by the traditional healthcare system.
Program Values
TruNorth Foundation creates holistic, community-driven pathways to well-being, leadership, and economic empowerment. We offer non-clinical recovery services, workforce development, leadership training, and community retreats, moving individuals from survival to THR!VAL™.
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✔ Holistic & Cultural Wellness Programming – Community-based healing circles and access to our trusted network of holistic healers, licensed clinical and non-clinical practitioners.
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✔ Leadership & Workforce Development – Cohort-based learning, coaching, and mentorship for professionals, entrepreneurs, and community leaders.
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✔ Community Retreats & Engagement – Culturally grounded gatherings that provide space for rest, retreat, reflection, and collective healing.
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✔ Systems Change & Advocacy – Events and strategic initiatives that strengthen ecosystems of support.
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Our cohort-based model builds positive mindset shifts and triggers healthier mental and physical behavioral patterns in life, relationships, and in their work and workplace. We engage with people through peer-led circles, using frameworks that support mindfulness, self-empowerment, workforce development.
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By integrating personal development with holistic wellness, we equip participants to:
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✔ Build self-sufficiency and reduce financial barriers to wellness
✔ Break unhealthy patterns in work and relationships, and building new, consistent habits that support overall wellness
✔ Develop meaningful social connections through peer-led support networks
✔ Access mentorship and career pathways that foster personal and professional growth
Explore Our Programs:
Community Engagement
Community Events & Retreats
Program Impact
The THRIVAL! Method addresses behavioral health recovery by providing non-clinical, culturally affirming support to individuals who face systemic barriers to care and/or who feel disenfranchised by the traditional healthcare system. Many we serve have limited access to recovery services that reflect their cultural identity, social context, and historical trauma, leaving them without the holistic support they need.
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Reached through leadership development, healing retreats, community engagement events and workplace programming across Colorado, WTH public health and education institutions across the country and in the Caribbean and Virgin Islands.
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Our self-empowerment and human development initiatives foster self-determination and thriving mindsets in communities and workplaces, where participants overwhelmingly say their engagement with TruNorth was transformational
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We raise $1.2M annually through the generous purpose-aligned philanthropic partners that have resourced community-based programming, and we established a for-profit arm to reduce reliance on external funding and ensure the longevity of our work.
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