Dear TRENDS Diary,I’m the Chief Financial Officer of Gaia in Louisville, a conscious media and community company that includes yoga instruction.The need for children’s yoga came from my own personal experience. I have a 4-year-old and 6-year-old at home. I was seeing...
Dear TRENDS Diary,I am a musician with 300 Days band. Due to COVID-19, my gigs have been cancelled and the record I was recording in April has been postponed.I wanted to find a community I could service and give myself a reprieve from the chaos. Knowing this was...
“Funding from the Community Foundation’s COVID-19 Response Fund Boulder County is so important at this time, especially given how fast the foundation is able to mobilize resources. LMOW’s expenses are higher right now, and restaurants need to be paid up front … so...
“I really appreciate that our Community Foundation is taking equity concerns seriously by being as proactive as possible to ensure that our money goes to the organizations who serve the most vulnerable people in our community.” To say that Cherry-Rose Anderson and...
Dear TRENDS Diary,I’m the founder and president of Mythology Distillery. We’re a whiskey, gin and vodka distillery based in Denver. Similar to many other Colorado distilleries, we switched our production to hand sanitizer to help first responders and organizations in...
Dear TRENDS Diary,We’re on lock down. You know, the virus thing. Now, there’s lots of time to write. But I’ve been fighting the sadness of closing down our Warrior StoryField project.We are a team of war veterans and civilians working together to build two huge steel...
Dear Diary,“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ “ - Fred RogersThat quote from Mr. Rogers was my inspiration. There’s so much negativity in the news...
A couple days before the governor’s stay-at-home orders took effect, Diego Bonta and Angie Fryer and their two sons decided as a family that they wanted to buy some flowers for some of their close neighbors and friends.They delivered the flowers to their Boulder...
It started on March 20, right as things were starting to get dire. I saw a blog post from the team out of San Francisco who started a similar program.I retweeted the story and said, ‘Who is doing this in Colorado?’ I had a little back and forth with Vikas Reddy, Brad...
Dear Trends Diary,I have been organizing a growing group of volunteers who want to help their neighbors with errands. My hope has been to foster a sense of care and connection in a time of seeming isolation. Because of this idea, I have now met more Boulderites in two...
Lyn Schuman Simuns used to have a very active life before the COVID-19 outbreak. Whether the Longmont resident was volunteering for Boulder County or for Intercambio teaching ESL classes, she was always on the go; but suddenly, in one week, everything stopped.“I...
"So many times over the last few weeks we’ve heard, 'We’ll get through this together.' We are fortunate here in Boulder County to have a talented and dedicated organization that has been in this with us for decades, whether we realized it or not. Now, in our time of...
"In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, staying focused on Census outreach activities – even while the form of those activities is changing – provides a sense of purpose." While the Coronavirus pandemic currently dominates both headlines and headspace, we haven’t lost...
“We recognize that the recovery period for COVID-19 in our community will last much longer than the virus alone. It’s only with the support of philanthropic leaders like Community Foundation Boulder County that we’ll be able to provide the nourishment needed to...
“We are very grateful for funding from the Community Foundation’s COVID-19 Response Fund Boulder County. As we’re experiencing a drop in earned revenue through our social enterprises due to closures and stay-at-home orders, this is keeping our essential staff working....
"We’ve come to understand that – in circumstances like these – the time to act is now.” For long-time donors Bob and Leslie Cutler, your Community Foundation’s COVID-19 Response Fund Boulder County is an obvious way to make an immediate impact at this time of...
"We know that social connection is crucial during these times, especially for highly-affected groups like LGBTQ+ communities." An emerging theme in Out Boulder County’s COVID-19 LGBTQ Boulder County Community Survey confirms that social isolation tops the list of...
“Like Leadership Fellows, Boulder Food Rescue is community- and resident-driven. We depend on partnerships and collaborations to address food access, locally. Leadership Fellows helps connect the dots and harness new connections toward addressing the root causes of...
“The City of Boulder is committed to doing some real things to educate our community around chapters of our history that have been misrepresented or ignored. So a group of us got together – natives and non-natives – to help implement the city’s resolution. Our goal is...
“For so long, we’ve had an extractive mentality toward our planet. Understanding the complexities involved, we need to be thinking about adapting to a carbon-constrained future … and the best way to do that is locally. To that end, I want my money to be working toward...