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Grant Funds Available for Local Youth Programs

The city of Boulder Youth Opportunities Program announces the following grant opportunities.  All grant funds are limited to supporting cultural, recreational or educational opportunities for city of Boulder resident middle or high school age youth in the state of Colorado.

People Engaged in Raising Leaders (PERL) Board Recruitment Fair CALL FOR ORGANIZATIONS

Dear Community Leader,

We would like to invite you to participate in the People Engaged in Raising Leaders (PERL) Recruitment Fair on June 26th at the Lafayette Public Library, located at 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, CO 80026. Please see attached flyer for more information.


2008 Create Our Future Capacity Building Funds

2008 Create Our Future Capacity Building Funds
Request for Proposal

Funding Available

Funds are available for new and innovative projects and programs that help to realize goals of the strategic plan: “Creating Vibrant Communities in Which We All Age Well.”  [http://www.allagewell.com/documents/all_age_well_doc.pdf ]
This funding opportunity is available to the following:


Latina Youth Leaders and Program Executive Leadership Trainings

Latinas Learning to Lead Summer Youth Institute-Last Week to Apply! The deadline to apply to the Latinas Learning to Lead Summer Youth Institute is April 4, 2008. The programs main purpose is to train the next generation of Latina leaders. The Institute combines leadership training with technical and practical experience in a one-week comprehensive program in Washington, D.C from July 20-26, 2008.

Bias Incident Hotline

Bias Incident hotline taking calls

Phone service spurred by racially charged incidents

Daily Camera Front Page Story


Solutions to the Immigration Challenge

Our country is headed in the wrong direction with immigration, and it breaks my heart when I talk to people who are directly affected by these political games. There are ridiculous and inhumane anti-immigrant proposals popping up in various states, and they are somehow steering the debate and influencing naive people who don't realize that it's often impossible to become legal if you're here illegally because of our current broken system and that many low-income

Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado

   


Grantmaking in Social Justice: Looking Beyond the Symptoms


It is fitting perhaps that Brad Armstrong, founder of the Bamboo Fund of The Community Foundation, jokingly calls his social justice grantmaking “faith-based funding.” Although he harkens from Midland, Texas – a wealthy and conservative oil community that is home to President George W. Bush – Armstrong is not referring to anything related to organized religion.


Family Tradition and Social Change = FUN!

Stuart and Walter Kingsbery appreciate the Boulder County community for the

lives they've led here and the friends they've made. The two believe this is such a nice place to live because of many individuals' efforts, and they celebrate the community through their Kingsbery Friends & Family Fund at The Community Foundation.


Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado Exceeds Expectations

When we started the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado (EFCo – http://www.efcolorado.org) at the beginning of 2007, our goal was to recruit a strong base of initial companies to form the core of a unique organization that could help all entrepreneurs contribute early in the creation of their companies to the long term health and sustainability of Colorado.


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