Grant Jones is the founder and executive director of the Center for African American Health and the Metro Denver Black Church Initiatives. The initiative is dedicated to improving the health and well being of the African American community. Through its varied health education and outreach efforts, the initiative and its new Center has become a leader in developing partnerships and mobilizing the faith community to alleviate major health disparities and in promoting active and healthy lifestyle behavior.

From 1988 until 2001, Jones was a senior program officer at the Denver based Piton Foundation where he focused on developing and supporting innovation in neighborhood improvement and building resident leadership capacity. In 1999, he was chosen as one of only 10 individuals in the nation for a year-long Children and Family Fellowship awarded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. He was the 2002 recipient of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian Award from the Colorado Civil Right Commission. Grant was presented the distinguished Civis Princeps (First Citizen) Award by Regis University in 2004. He is a graduate of Regis University and the Leadership Denver class of 1987.

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