BRIGHTON, Colo. — Changes to funding at the federal level have affected nonprofit organizations across the country, including here in Colorado. One nonprofit in Brighton was already forced to shut down one of its programs because of cuts to funding.

Jessica Fiedler, the executive director of Almost Home shared those same concerns.

“It's heart wrenching when you think about the people who want to access our resources, and that we might not be able to provide those resources," Fiedler said.

Amanda Lowery and her family, who moved to Colorado two years ago, are among those people.

“We initially arrived; we were sleeping in a tent. We did that in three feet of snow,” remembered Lowery.

Her family has been experiencing homelessness for four years.

But she said things finally started looki

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