Boulder County, like most communities, is dynamic. People are coming and going. Issues change. New problems emerge. Crises arise.

The Community Foundation’s Community Trust is the right place to invest for donors who believe that their charitable dollars can be most effective by being flexible. Interest generated by this permanent endowment fund is available each year to address the community’s most pressing needs and most important opportunities. The money is awarded in a competitive process of application, which involves committees of Foundation staff, trustees, and community members and leaders evaluating proposals and conducting interviews and site visits.

The Community Foundation makes a constant effort to address emerging issues in the county. We do this in part through our partnership with the Boulder County Civic Forum, which is dedicated to measuring emerging community indicators and trends, by commissioning periodic surveys and studies, by working with community leaders on committees and projects, and by always keeping our ears open.

A brochure about the Community Trust is available online and in paper form. The online brochure is in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF, size: 49 KB) which you can view and print. You must have Adobe Reader installed on your computer to view the brochure. You can download the free Adobe Reader software here. If you would like to request a paper copy, please send us e-mail at or call us at 303-442-0436 (toll free: 1-877-744-7239) .

If you would like to see your charitable legacy be a strategic use of funds year after year, please consider a gift to the Foundation’s Community Trust. Please send us e-mail at info@commfound.org or call us at 303-442-0436 (toll free: 1-877-744-7239) for more information.