Mental health services are available to individuals and families who have been impacted by the recent Cal-Wood and Lefthand Canyon wildfires. Boulder County mental healthcare providers are invited to join the program. Learn more and register! In response to the...
Arts and Culture organizations that received grants from the Community Foundation's Community Trust earlier this fall were awarded unsolicited, additional grants of $1,650 each from the Millennium Trust. The foundation sent these grants to 22 organizations in...
The 2020 Fires Relief Fund was established on October 19 to support those affected by the Cal-Wood and Lefthand Canyon fires. Deadline to apply for a grant: December 7, 2020, 9 a.m. The 2020 Fires Relief Fund was established on October 19 to support those affected by...
Dear Friends,The 2020 Fires Relief Fund was established on October 19 to support those affected by the Cal-Wood and Lefthand Canyon Fires. We extend hearty thanks to all the contributors. As of November 9, 2020, $521K has been raised from 1,000+ donors.The fund was...
The 2020 Fires Relief Fund has been established at Community Foundation Boulder County in partnership with Boulder County, with initial gifts totaling $75,000. An anonymous donor has provided $50,000, and an additional $10,000 has been committed by Mile High United...
Your Community Foundation is monitoring the Cal-wood Fire closely, and we're in contact with grantee partners and local officials. For now, please consider making a gift to one or more of the nonprofit partners affected by the fire or working to address the needs of...
Communities in Colorado, California, and elsewhere are addressing wide-ranging wildfires. Here's how to help. Communities in Colorado, California, and elsewhere are addressing wide-ranging wildfires. Smoke from these wildfires has blanketed skies all the...
Dear TRENDS Diary -Each week for nearly 20 years, I have helped put on a free-form community dance gathering, called Conscious Dance Boulder. Until March, we rented space every Thursday night at Alchemy of Movement, a local dance studio, creating a habitat there for...
Dear TRENDS Diary - The mission of the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless is to create avenues to stable housing for our community’s homeless adults, from a foundation of supportive and safe shelter. COVID-19 has challenged us to reexamine what it means to offer...
The City of Boulder has established a $200K challenge grant to support qualifying Boulder small businesses in their continued safe operation during the immediate pandemic health crisis (COVID-19) and near-term response. Local philanthropists, Dan and Cindy Caruso and...
To assist with preventing the spread of COVID-19, Community Foundation Boulder County's building will be temporarily closed starting 5 p.m. on Monday, March 16. While we will not physically be in our office, we will continue all normal business operations and are here...
Now open at your Community Foundation Boulder County. We know you share our concern about the impact of COVID-19 in our community. Your Community Foundation has established the COVID-19 Response Fund Boulder County, to ensure essential services for...
If you'd like to join the effort, donate now to our fund, and tell everyone you know to go to 2020census.gov starting March 13, and spend 10 minutes answering 10 questions that will impact our community for 10 years to come. By Chris Barge, Vice President of Strategic...
Many of us are saddened and concerned about the crises in Australia and Puerto Rico – from raging wildfires to destructive earthquakes. Here's how you can help. Many of us are saddened and concerned about the crises in Australia and Puerto Rico – from raging wildfires...
Keep up with the latest information regarding Hurricane Dorian, and ways to support communities affected by the storm. The first major hurricane of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Dorian has caused catastrophic damage to Grand Bahama and Abaco Island,...
Following the recent closure of two of Nederland’s early childhood education centers – Little Bear and the Aspen Grove Community Preschool – TEENS, Inc. stepped in to fill the gap. Following the recent closure of two of Nederland’s early childhood education centers –...
Your Community Foundation is not the sole institution by which we love one another, but that is the heart of why it exists. Watch updates to this blog for ongoing information on what we can accomplish together to overcome inhumane separations of children from their...
"I’m proud of our community foundations for working together with all our nonprofits to continue to make this a place that everyone can call home." We recently spoke with Matt Zavala, Board President of the Longmont Community Foundation, and Carmen Ramirez, our own...
A new year beckons new opportunities to deepen impact and community engagement. Here at the Community Foundation Boulder County, we’re often asked by potential new donors, partners, and other interested community members: “what’s the role of a community foundation?”...
“Although it’s disappointing that the world has not yet achieved racial, social, or gender equity...we’re in a unique time in history for these public conversations to create lasting solutions." Recently, TIME magazine revealed that its Person of the Year isn’t just...