FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 26th, 2026 MEDIA CONTACTS: Joshua Stallings, 720-383-4721 | advocacy@juntoscommunity.org Luis Antezana, 720-507-3651 | admin@juntoscommunity.org Lawmakers to Address Exclusionary Background Check Practices for Educational Opportunities Denver, CO — Colorado lawmakers, advocates and impacted individuals announce HB26-1143, “Safety, Not Status” bill, before its hearing in the House State, Civic, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee on Thursday. The bill will...

Our two organizations met recently in the spirit of healing and collaboration and are proud to come together to deliver this open letter to the community. We met to address disagreements between our organizations that had surfaced following a new due diligence process the foundation instituted in response to the challenging environment we are all facing. Unfortunately, this caused significant distress to the undocumented communities served by Juntos Community and the organization’s program...

Juntos Community is calling for accountability from The Denver Foundation and CEO Javier Alberto Soto, after $80,000 in awarded grant funds have been frozen since May 2025 , conditioned on demands that would require us to alter our mission, obscure the people we serve, and surrender our governance to funder control. In September 2025, we were told to do two things in order to have these funds released: First, we were asked to remove the word “undocumented” from our mission and vision.Second,...