• Boulder County Latina Women’s League: $5,000
  The League’s mission is to provide Latina middle and high school students with an opportunity to experience first hand the kinds of career and educational opportunities out there – but that many may not be aware are available to them. This grant goes to the "Latinas Building Bridges in Education" Annual Conference, a day dedicated to enabling Latina middle and high school students to receive one-on-one mentoring from community professionals.
  
  
• City of Boulder City Attorney’s Office Turn Around Project: $6,000
  This grant will go toward helping turn the lives of 30 at-risk and adjudicated teenagers around. The Turn Around Project provides them with a staff-intensive, accredited program based around arts instruction (hip hop, breakdance, visual arts, music, photography), wilderness experience, and taking part in a small caring, respectful, healthy, multi-cultural, multi-generational community group.
  
  
• Colorado Business and Professional Women’s Foundation: $4,650
  Colorado BPW Foundation’s mission is to help Colorado women of nontraditional school age attain economic self-sufficiency through education. Recognizing that education is pivotal for women to increase their standing in and value to the community, the BPW Foundation grants scholarships to women throughout the state who need assistance in reaching their educational goals. This grant will go directly to education scholarships for women living in Boulder County.
  
  
• Colorado Youth Program: $5,000
  CYP is an organization connecting Colorado’s underprivileged kids with nature and their communities. CYP does this by offering Colorado youths who are 9-18 years old and from low-income households the opportunity to experience a mountain camp experience. The program also includes year-round, follow-up programming which includes volunteer work and reward activities, designed to instill pride and confidence.
  
  
• Friends of the Longmont Senior Center: $1,000
  The Friends of the Longmont Senior Center was created to enhance community awareness and support of the Longmont Senior Center. The Center offers a range of activities, classes and outings, including arts and crafts work, sporting events, and recreational activities, including Tai Chi and yoga. This grant will help to subsidize the program fees charged to low-income seniors for Longmont Senior Center recreation and activity programs.
  
  
• Imagine!: $2,082
  The mission of Imagine! (formerly the Developmental Disabilities Center) is to create and offer innovative support to people of all ages with cognitive and developmental needs so that they may live fulfilling lives of independence and quality in their homes and communities. This grant goes to Imagine’s "First Jobs for Youth" summer program to help young people, ages 16-18, who have developmental disabilities, work in the City of Boulder’s parks and mountain spaces.
  
  
• Intercambio de Comunidades Español/Inglés: $7,500
  Intercambio’s mission is to increase independence and opportunities for Latino immigrants and build a richer, more integrated community, by reducing language and cultural barriers in Boulder County. The bulk of the program includes partnering English speakers with monolingual Spanish speaker for informal language lessons. The language lessons emphasize practicality, from job-related words to shopping to communicating with children’s schools. This grant will go toward providing free English classes, resource education, and intercultural events.
  
  
• Longmont Coalition for Women in Crisis: $10,018
  This grant will support the "Responsive Case Management Services" at the Longmont Coalition for Women in Crisis. This intensive domestic violence program is unique in that it provides childcare for victims, addressing one barrier for the Coalition’s clients and enabling them to focus on rebuilding their lives and the lives of their children.
  
  
• Naropa University Art Therapy Program: $6,000
  The Naropa Community Art Studio offers Boulder youth a safe, non-judgmental place to go after school to create art in a community setting with their peers. It provides a constructive and enjoyable alternative to unsupervised time. The program has recently partnered with Boulder Preparatory High School, a facility for highly at-risk youth, to bring them into the art studio.
  
  
• Naropa University Hedgerow Farm: $2,000
  Hedgerow is a certified organic farm that aims to be a sustainable living education center. This grant will support the farm, including programs that give young people a chance to experience directly where their food comes from and that promote heightened environmental awareness.
  
  
• OUR Center: $7,000
  The OUR Center works to unify community resources to help low-income people in the St. Vrain Valley meet their individual needs and move towards self-sufficiency. This grant will go toward providing case management services for young adults in transition. The case managers work closely with homeless teens to help them find housing and either finish school or find work.
  
  
• Radio Reading Service: $1,500
  This grant will support the operation of Radio Reading Service of the Rockies. This volunteer-based group provides on-air reading and information services for Boulder County’s blind, visually impaired and print handicapped children, working age adults and senior citizens.
  
  
• Wild Bear Center for Nature Discovery: $10,000
  The Wild Bear Center offers year-round, hands-on educational programs to people of all ages in order to foster a life-long appreciation for the environment and to promote an environmentally aware, responsible and ecologically sound community. This grant will support a collaborative project with the I Have a Dream Foundation to offer low income disadvantaged youth the opportunity to engage in outdoor environmental education programs through backyard studies and field trips to the mountains west of Boulder.
  
  
• YWCA of Boulder County: $3,500
  The mission of the YWCA of Boulder County is to serve women and their families through programs designed to protect children, empower women and girls, and eliminate racism. This grant supports the YWCA’s "Voices Carry" program, a girls’ leadership program for teens – integrating teen moms – in Boulder County.

Millennium Trust 2002 Grants Total: $71,250.

Additional Millennium Trust Grants
Thanks to the University of Colorado Federal Credit Union
For the third 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:

CU Science Discovery - $2,100
Developmental Disabilities Center ( Imagine) - $2,100
I Have A Dream Foundation - $9,000
Naropa After School Art Program - $2,000
Radio Reading Service of the Rockies - $4,600