• Background Noise, $2,500
  Background Noise received funding for the Teen Area at the Boulder Creek Festival. The Background Noise Teen Board is made up of teens from Boulder County. It meets every week, February through June, to plan the Teen Area at the Festival. Among other things, the funding from the Millennium Trust will help to get the Teen Area some tents, which will be used to feature a teen art show.
  
  
• Boulder County Audubon Society, $5,000
  The Audubon Society has received funding this year from the Millennium Trust for a project called "Nature Beckons to People of All Abilities – Building Community Through Nature." This project will enable students from the Lafayette elementary schools to learn more about local birds and plants, while also learning about children and adults with developmental disabilities.
  
  
• Boulder County Latina Women's League, $4,550
  The Latina Women’s League has received funding for the second year in a row from the Millennium Trust for its "Latinas Building Bridges in Education" conference. This conference allows Latina middle and high school girls to receive one-on-one mentoring from a professional woman in the community. The girls shadow their mentors for a day, and then later attend interviewing skills, critical thinking/self-esteem, and professional presentation seminars.
  
  
• City of Boulder Police Department / The Turn-Around Project, $6,200
  The Turn-Around Project involves 40 high-risk teenagers from Boulder County. The youth receive art instruction over the summer. In the fall, the teens choose a topic together and then begin to put together a show using that theme. Artists from the community work with the youth as mentors. Youth from other community art programs will join as well.
  
  
• Colorado School Mediation Project, $2,500
  Colorado School Mediation Project will use its grant to present training sessions on restorative justice in schools. Restorative Justice is an alternative to traditional school discipline. It attempts to repair the harm done by crime through powerful face-to-face meetings between offenders and affected community members. As part of this program, CSMP will train additional teachers, counselors, parents, administrators, and students about the principles or restorative justice.
  
  
• Colorado Youth Program, $5,000
  Colorado Youth Program gives underprivileged children across Boulder County a connection to this region by giving them the chance to enjoy the outdoors. Each summer, 140 campers learn how to live in a backcountry-style tent camp, play team-building games, and participate in Environmental Service Projects that encourage volunteerism.
  
  
• Growing Gardens / Boulder Community Food Project, $3,000
  This grant will pair experienced gardeners with disadvantaged families to learn how to garden and grow food in Boulder’s Community Gardens. The project is designed to increase the capacity of the Boulder community to grow food within the city limits, promote self-sufficiency of local families in need, and create opportunities for youth.
  
  
• I Have a Dream Foundation / Project YES, $4,000
  These two organizations have come together for Perspectivas Comunidades/Community Perspectives: a Multicultural, Cross-Age Drama Collaboration. This project brings together Lafayette youth of different ages, ranging from 3rd grade through high school, to create a multicultural dramatic production. The older youth will support the younger youth in writing a play, and arts specialists and other community adults will work with the youth to produce and direct the play.
  
  
• Intercambio de Comunidades Español/Inglés, $11,700
  Intercambio de Comunidades Español/Inglés, which means "Exchange of Spanish/English Communities," reduces the barriers that prevent many native Spanish speakers from being an integral part of the community. Native English speakers who speak some Spanish are paired up with Spanish speakers for informal "classes," which help the Latino participants learn English while also improving teaching the English speakers better Spanish. Though not even a year old, and using only volunteers, this group has paired over 150 Latinos with 75 English-speaking volunteers.
  
  
• Longmont Coalition for Women in Crisis, $3,000
  The Longmont Coalition for Women in Crisis is receiving funding for its "Enhanced Outreach Services," which build bridges to the monolingual Spanish speaking communities in Longmont, Niwot and Hygiene. The program aims to decrease violence in this community by offering positive parent/child relationship seminars, by providing prevention activities for teenagers, and by conducting therapeutic play groups for children at risk.
  
  
• RSVP: Retired and Senior Volunteer Program of Boulder County, $2,600
  RSVP will use its grant to recruit, train and place senior volunteers to serve as mentors/tutors in the five public Family Resource Schools. These schools provide a wide range of prevention and early intervention services to underserved populations. The children in the program will be aided by the volunteers as they learn to read. It will also provide the seniors with a place to share their skills and knowledge.
  

Millennium Trust 2001 Grants Total: $50,050.

Additional Millennium Trust Grants
Thanks to the University of Colorado Federal Credit Union
For the second year in a row, the University of Colorado Federal Credit Union has chosen to spend its charitable budget to fund additional projects that The Community Foundation’s Millennium Trust was not able to fund.
This year, thanks to the Credit Union’s generosity, grants were made to the following Millennium Trust applicants:
Boulder County Partners
Boulder County Shelter for the Homeless
Dental Aid, Inc.
Eco-Cycle
Habitat for Humanity
Lafayette Senior Center
YMCA of Boulder County