• Boulder Parks and Recreation: $6,000
  To support the Boulder Meadows Youth group. Prior to this program, the kids living in the Boulder Meadows Mobile Home park had basically no recreation opportunities for after school and weekends. This funding will allow the organization to provide engaging activities for kids, including sports and leadership activities, service projects, and evening and weekend recreation. Another component of the program is to provide parents and other adult residents of the park with the skills to maintain the program.
  
  
• Boulder Shelter for the Homeless: $10,000
  Support this year goes specifically to the shelter's Transition Program, which helps the men and women living at the shelter to break the cycle of poverty. The program includes multiple levels of service to meet residents at their point of need, including intensive case management services, weekly support meetings and detailed contractual agreements that are specialized for each client. Those who have completed the program vouch that it helped them to re-establish their autonomy and to re-discover their self-worth.
  
  
• Colorado Youth Program: $2,000
  This grant will go toward introducing some of Colorado's underprivileged kids to nature and their communities. CYP offers Colorado youth who are 9-18 years old and from lower income households the opportunity to go to camp in the mountains and then engage in year-round follow up programming. The experience of learning, working and playing in a natural, outdoor setting instills pride and confidence in the campers.
  
  
• Community Action Program's Latino Parent Leadership Classes: $7,000
  This program addresses a major need in our community: a cultural barrier that prevents Latino students from seeing the same educational success as their Anglo counterparts. These classes engage parents of Latino students, and help them to become better advocates for themselves and their children. Parents report increased opportunities to teach their children about cultural traditions, and children feel pride in their parents' increased participation. An additional part of this grant goes toward supporting Citizenship classes to prepare adults to take their citizenship tests.
  
  
• Community Food Share's Feed the Future Program: $10,000
  This program will ensure that 400 children, each week, receive a 5-pound bag of groceries to bring home to their families. In last year's pilot program at Columbine Elementary in Longmont, the program sparked better school attendance from families collecting food. The organizers also found that the parents, many of whom had been relatively disengaged, began communicating with the school. Perhaps most importantly, the kids who deliver the bags of food feel a wonderful satisfaction that they have contributed to the family's resources.
  
  
• Dental Aid: $2,000
  Not all of us think of dental care right away when we think of organizations providing basic need services. Dental Aid convinced us otherwise, and this grant will support this group as it provides preventative and restorative dental care to uninsured and/or undocumented children in Boulder County. With early detection and care, patients will be less likely to need expensive urgent care in the future.
  
  
• Growing Garden's "¡Cultiva!" program: $1,000
  This program takes low-income, ethnically diverse children and youth in Boulder, and teaches them how to grow food in the Community Garden. The kids then sell the food at the Farmers' Market. This grant will support the expansion of another component of this program, the Boulder Community Food Project, which develops and installs food gardens closer to home, in various neighborhoods and housing projects and communities.
  
  
• Inn Between: $10,000
  We all know that having a place to live is a major component in a stable life. While shelters offer a short-term solution for many, the Inn Between offers help for that next step – a transitional residence. Diverse individuals and families find the Inn Between a life-saving place to be while they work to achieve self-sufficiency. In addition to housing, the Inn Between helps residents by providing: case management, life skills classes for youths, parenting classes for parents, conflict resolution classes, consumer credit counseling classes, a food closet and more.
  
  
• Intercambio de Comunidades Español/Inglés: $10,000
  This organization, a repeat Millennium Trust recipient, works to increase opportunities and independence for Latino immigrants. Intercambio provides free ESL classes, community resource education courses, and intercultural social events, which help to break cultural barriers and integrate our community. Students get to help focus the content of their language classes and workshops – perhaps focusing on language skills for work, for example, or how to bring a child to the doctor. That means they are learning not only useful skills, but also building their own sense of empowerment in our community.
  
  
• RSVP: Retired Senior Volunteer Program: $6,500
  This grant will help get the word out about RSVP's Safety Net Program, services which help seniors live more independently in their own home. Safety Net Services include: the Carry-Out Caravan, a free service to deliver groceries to seniors at home; the Fix-it Program, which provides maintenance and minor repairs in seniors' homes; and Companionship Program, a program matching volunteers with home-bound seniors for regular visits and phone calls.
  
  
• Women's Health: $6,500
  Women's Health is currently celebrating its 30th anniversary of serving women's reproductive health needs in Boulder. This grant will support one part of the clinic's Youth Program that is designed to prevent subsequent unintended pregnancy among Boulder's already parenting teen population. Through the program, teen mothers find resources, build a relationship with a health care provider and obtain birth control to prevent future pregnancies.
  

Millennium Trust 2003 Grants Total: $71,000.

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

Intercambio de Comunidades Español/Inglés - $2,500
Volunteer Connection's Mentors Matter Program - $5,000
Foothills United Way's Personal Investment Enterprise Program - $1,500