Proposals focused on Health & Human Services or Civic Engagement are due September 23. Request for Proposals for the Community Trust!The Community Trust is the permanent grantmaking fund of Community Foundation Boulder County, addressing needs and opportunities...
“Housing provides an ideal platform to help families access much needed services and programs.” Boulder’s high cost of living means that a family of four with one preschool-age child and one elementary-school-age child needs to earn $85,836 a year to meet basic needs...
For more than 13 years, St. Benedict Health and Healing Ministry – a grantee of your Community Foundation – has provided free medical services to people in Boulder County who have limited or no connection to the healthcare delivery system. For more than 13 years, St....
CEO Jeff Hirota recently participated in a poverty simulation run by the Boulder County Circles Program. "I knew pretending I was poor was nothing like being poor. Nevertheless, I was unprepared for the experience." Dear Friends, As a young man fresh out of...
"Dental Aid always struck me as ‘up north’ from the rest of us in the safety-net sector. I always understood Dental Aid to be clued in to the bigger picture, engaged in every phase of oral healthcare." When we last reported on the community impact of Dental Aid – a...
"We understand that local and community information is the most difficult to access for the blind, and for individuals who have lost their vision, or due to some other condition..." One of the nation’s leading resources for blind, visually impaired, and other...
"Even though we struggled financially from time to time, there were always people to support us – and that’s what Meals on Wheels does, too." Every year, Community Foundation Boulder County presents two Community Leadership awards: the Pat-on-the-Back Award and the...
"Community Foundation Boulder County makes it easy for us to achieve our philanthropic goals in Jeff’s memory by doing all the background research. The foundation is so tuned in to the community, and we know that our dollars are making the most impact as a result."...
“Homelessness among vets is a perplexing and persistent problem. But we’re actively seeking them out where they are, both during the day and every single night of the year. We’re showing up with them at appointments, sharing their grief and loss, sitting and waiting...
"...people with IDD are often excluded from decisions made about their own lives, and from big picture decisions about how to build support systems that actually work." To elevate awareness and ignite action around our community’s social, economic, and environmental...
The Community Foundation Boulder County today announced $316,950 in grants to 119 Community Trust grantees comprising Boulder County nonprofits focused on health and human services, education, civic engagement, arts and culture, and animals and the environment. The...
“One-hundred percent of the young people we serve have experienced some form of trauma, abuse, or neglect – including some 30% of the youths we serve who identify as LGBTQ.” Attention Homes – a longtime grantee of the Community Foundation – is well known for its work...
"The largest areas of predicted future job growth over the next 10 years in Boulder County are in food preparation and service and retail sales, both categories with relatively low wages. Income and wages will remain an issue in the struggle towards self-sufficiency...
“I believe we’re responsible for others in the community. That’s important to me as a value." When Mary Lynne Hixson moved to Boulder in 2011, she looked for ways to be engaged with the community. “When you’re new in town, you don’t know people,” she...
"For too long, homelessness has been addressed with either a one-size-fits-all solution or, worse, the wrong intervention at the wrong time. How do we change that?" To elevate awareness and ignite action around or community’s social, economic, and environmental...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) staff need your support to tackle the long-term health threats facing our neighbors and fellow citizens in the continental United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tune in for a briefing on Oct. 4,...
"...the reality is that there is no place in Colorado where poverty doesn’t exist in some form or fashion." By Eliberto Mendoza, Board of Trustees, Community Foundation Boulder County, and Division Manager, Boulder County Community Action Programs, Community Services...
Today on our radio show, a community conversation about food insecurity in Boulder County – from food access and affordability, to reliability, quality, and quantity. If you missed it live, listen here. Today on our radio show, the Community Foundation Boulder County...
"Even in 2017, if a roommate or an employer finds out, there are real consequences for people living with HIV. And HIV is still with us – it’s still a concern. We want to make sure people know how to avoid getting infected with HIV, and reduce the prevalence of HIV in...
"We recognize that threats and abuse often occur in the context of other injustices, including lack of access among victims to opportunities for self-sufficiency and other resources." For nearly four decades, the Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence (SPAN) –...