Highlighted programs:

• Blue Mountain Arts Community Cares Program
• Boulder County Human Services Strategic Plan - Building Caring and Livable Communities for All
• Boulder County Youth Summit
• Boulder International Film Festival
  
• Dairy Center for the Arts
• Eco-Cycle
• Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado
• Expanding Leadership Initiative of the Community Foundation
• Frequent Flyer Productions
• Network of Care
• Old Firehouse Art Center
• Providers Advancing School Outcomes (PASO)

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People:

• American Community Survey 2008
• Colorado Department of Local Affairs

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Health and Human Services:

• State Coverage Initiatives, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2006-2007.
  
• “Colorado Births and Deaths 2006,” Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
  
• “The 2009 HHS Poverty Guidelines,” United States Department of Health and Human Services
  
• Kaiser/HRET Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Benefits, 2008
  
• “Charting a Course: Preparing for the Future, Learning from the Past,” State of the States, Academy Health, January 2009
• “Governor Ritter Announces ‘Building Blocks for Health Care Reform’ Package,” Office of Governor Bill Ritter, Jr. February 13, 2008
  
• Colorado Children’s Health Insurance 2009 Update
• Brandon Roberts and Deborah Povich “Still Working Hard Still Falling Short: New Findings on the Challenges Confronting America’s Working Families,”
• Larsson, Eric. "Intensive Early Intervention using Behavior Therapy is No Longer Experimental." Lovaas Institute For Early Intervention (LIFE). Web. 13 July 2009
• "Child Health." Colorado Children's Campaign. Web. 13 July 2009
  
• Libertun, Gisela, Boulder County Domestic Abuse Prevention Project, Year End Statistical Report: January–December 2007
  
• John Z. Ayanian, Betsy A. Kohler, Toshi Abe, and Arnold M. Epstein, The Relation between Health Insurance Coverage and Clinical Outcomes among Women with Breast Cancer, The New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 329:326-331, Number 5, July 29, 1993.
• Diane Rowland, Sc.D, Health Care and Medicaid - Weathering the Recession, The New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 360:1273-1276, Number 13, March 26, 2009.
• Dental Aid
• Child Health Survey, Health Statistics Section, CDPHE, 2005-2007

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Education:

• American Community Survey 2008
• Berliner, David C. (2009). Poverty and Potential: Out-of-School Factors and School Success.
• Boulder and Tempe: Education and the Public Interest Center & Education Policy Research Unit.
• Colorado Department of Education
• Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute, “Aiming for the Middle: Benchmarks for Colorado’s Future – 2009 Updated Rankings”
• Greenberg, Stephanie. “Status of Children in Boulder County 2008”

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Environment:

• Be ClimateSmart
• Bounds, Amy ‘Louisville trash program gets high marks,’ Daily Camera July 16, 2009
• Eco-Cycle
• Mufson, Stephen, ‘U.S. carbon emissions fall by most since ’82,’ Washington Post May 21, 2009
• Turner, Brad, ‘Single-stream ‘convenience factor’ leads to jump in Longmont recycling,’ Longmont Times-Call June 22, 2009
• Boulder County Consortium of Cities, ‘Sustainable Energy Plan’ April 2008
• Bezdek, Roger H., ‘Green Collar Jobs in the U.S. and Colorado,’ January 2009
• Boulder County Clerk and Recorder
• Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality Index Report 2008
• PACE – Partners for a Clean Environment
• Denver Regional Council of Governments
• Per Capita Water Use obtained through:Boulder Public Works; Town of Superior; Lafayette Public Works; Left Hand Water District; Louisville Public Works; Longmont Public Works

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Economy and Housing:

• “Economic Indicators for Longmont,” Through March 2009, Longmont Finance Department
• Headwaters Economics, “A SocioEconomic Profile: Colorado,” February 17, 2009
• State Coverage Initiatives, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2006-2007
  
• Brandon Roberts and Deborah Povich “Still Working Hard Still Falling Short: New Findings on the Challenges Confronting America’s Working Families,”
• Dreyer, Evan, “Gov. Ritter Signs Major Job-Creation Legislation,” May 4, 2009
  
• USA Today. 2009 Jobs Change Forecast: Boulder Colorado. February 6, 2009.
  
• Lipman, Barbara, “Heavy Load: The Combined Housing and Transportation Burdens of Working Families,” Center for Housing Policy, October 2006
• Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Economic Analysis
• Wallace, Alicia “April home sales drop 38%,” Daily Camera, May 13, 2009
• Wobbekind, Richard “Short-term outlook indicates continued slowdown for the economy,” Boulder County Business Report Vol. 28 Issue 10 May1-14, 2009
• Boulder County Housing Authority

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Arts and Culture:

• Elaine Mariner, Colorado Council on the Arts
• “Weathering the Storm: Challenges and Opportunities for Nonprofits During
  Recession,” published jointly by the Colorado Nonprofit Association and the
  Community Resource Center, 2009
• Raw Data on Boulder County grant recipients, provided by the SCFD

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Civic Participation and Giving:

• Harden, Mark “Colorado voter turnout better than U.S. average in 2008 election,” Denver Business Journal, July 20th 2009
• Boulder County Clerk and Recorder
• Boulder County Commissioners – 2008 and 2009 Surveys
• Boulder County Community Services
• Daily Camera
  Morgan, Ryan ‘Poll: Life’s good in Boulder’ Daily Camera January 7, 2008.
• Peter Salas, Boulder County Diversity Liaison
• The State of Giving 2008, a report of The Colorado Generosity Project

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