Dear TRENDS Diary - My name is David Breña (he/him) and I work for Boulder County Public Health’s OASOS program, which offers positive support and fun for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex and asexual (LGBTQIA+) youth. I also...
Dear TRENDS Diary -The pandemic and the ongoing surge in real-estate values have conspired to make this an especially precarious time for single parents in Boulder County. The average annual salary it takes to buy a house in Colorado is now a little over...
Dear TRENDS Diary - I have been narrating audiobooks since 2008, and, since the pandemic, have been doing so in my home recording studio out of my basement in Longmont. So far, I have recorded more than 700 audiobooks, predominantly for the National Library...
King Soopers memorial wallYour Community Foundation on June 1 announced a grant of $500,000 to the Colorado Organization for Victim Assistance with instructions that the funds be divided evenly to each of the 10 families who lost loved ones in the Boulder...
Dear TRENDS Diary,Recent interest in alternatives to traditional approaches to community safety has reminded me of my own experience as a young psychologist many years ago.The memory doesn’t start out well. I was an inexperienced driver (I’m from NY) heading to a Weld...
Dear TRENDS Diary -Since 2006, the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company has presented dozens of critically acclaimed new works and re-imagined classics that have brought new audiences and new artists to Boulder County. Then came the unthinkable. During the pandemic, we...
Dear TRENDS Diary -The scene was almost too big to describe. It was just … Biblical.As soon as I made the turn off Apple Valley Road into my drive, I knew something was terribly wrong. I could smell the gasoline. I could see frantic activity all around. It was my...
COVID-19 Response and Fires Relief funds announce awards. Community Foundation Boulder County will distribute $331K in grants to 15 organizations working to help our community recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and the fires that ravaged our mountains last...
Many of our neighbors still have a long road to travel. Dear friends, The saying goes, “April showers bring May flowers”. Clearly, that person was not from Boulder County, where May is our wettest month of the year. Let’s continue to bless the rains,...
Community Foundation to seek stakeholder input to inform future strategy We take seriously our role as your trusted philanthropic partner. We are taking a closer look this year at how we structure grantmaking from one of our longest-standing funds, The Community...
Dear TRENDS Diary -I was on a long walk in my south Boulder neighborhood the day the shots rang out at the King Soopers where I have shopped for the past 25 years. Often I return via the neighborhood behind the store; but, after hearing of the shooting, I immediately...
Dear TRENDS Diary -I grew up low-income in rural Oregon and felt the impact of not having reliable car transportation. After graduating high school, I went to a community college in Eugene, OR, and there was a bus system there. It was liberating to ride the bus....
Dear TRENDS Diary - Being a COVID epidemiologist is exciting in a weird way. Of course, I would never hope for a pandemic in a million years. But it is pretty neat to have finished my graduate degree a few years before it happened. It has validated that the work I do...
In response to the March 22, 2021 mass shooting in South Boulder, Community Foundation Boulder County has gathered these community resources and supports. In response to the March 22, 2021 mass shooting in South Boulder, Community Foundation Boulder County has...
In response to the March 22 mass shooting in South Boulder, Community Foundation Boulder County has established a fund to support the victims, their families, and our community in dealing with and processing these events. The Boulder County Crisis Fund will support...
Boulder County residents and firefighters impacted by the 2020 Cal-Wood and/or Lefthand Canyon Fires are eligible for free, local mental health services. Boulder County residents and firefighters impacted by the 2020 Cal-Wood and/or Lefthand Canyon Fires are eligible...
What have we seen and what is coming into view? Dear friends, In just a few weeks we will be passing the disturbing milestone of a full year since the start of the pandemic and our physical distancing. For some, this year has been difficult but not for lack...
Dear TRENDS Diary - It's been a dream of mine, for a long time, to be able to share my passion and joy for making things and its ability to turn nearly every problem into something any of us might solve. I've tried a lot of different places and different...
Dear TRENDS Diary -I started making digital illustrations as a creative outlet in 2017. I just needed some place to vent. I hated my job at the time, but I also didn’t have a lot of job mobility because I’m on a visa. I can’t just leave a company because I need to...
Community Foundation Boulder County has awarded $410K in grants from the 2020 Fires Relief Fund for direct assistance, mental health vouchers, and nonprofit organizations and fire protection districts impacted by the Cal-Wood and Lefthand Canyon Fires. Grants were...