Download the Full Press Release Here One hundred community partners have been selected to receive support to help address Boulder County’s most pressing needs. BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 18, 2025 – Community Foundation Boulder County today announced the 100 community...
This month on A Public Affair, Jim Williams is joined in the studio by Community Foundation Boulder County Vice President of Programs, Sarah Harrison, and Executive Director of the Early Childhood Council of Boulder County, Kaycee Headrick. They talk about the...
One hundred four community partners have been selected to receive support to help address Boulder County’s most pressing needs BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 19, 2024 -- Community Foundation Boulder County today announced the 104 community partners selected as 2024 Community...
145 community partners have been selected to receive discretionary funding to help address Boulder County’s most pressing needs BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 28, 2023 -- Community Foundation Boulder County, the community’s trusted philanthropic partner for more than 30 years,...
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Community Foundation is supporting numerous local nonprofits, including the Wild Plum Center and the YMCA of Northern Colorado. We’re pleased to share their inspiring, solutions-driven community responses to address the impact...
We checked in with a handful of the most recent grantees of the foundation’s Community Trust, and we’re inspired. Read on for updates from Intercambio Uniting Communities, 350 Colorado, Celebrate the Beat, and the Colorado Pet Pantry. We checked in with a handful of...
The Community Trust is the permanent grantmaking fund of your Community Foundation Boulder County, addressing broad needs, countywide. The Community Trust grantmaking process runs in two cycles, and the next deadline is July 17, 2020. The Community Trust is the...
Support ballot measures that help to fund schoolsVolunteer at your local public schoolDonate to organizations that promote educational equity, such as Engaged Latino Parents Advancing Student Outcomes (ELPASO), the “I Have a Dream” Foundation of Boulder County, the...
When Giovani Hernandez first saw Skyline High School shortly after moving to Longmont from Chihuahua, Mexico, he thought he’d arrived at a university.The middle school where he’d come from had broken windows and no air conditioning. Skyline was gleaming by...
The Boulder Valley School District, largely attended by white, non-Hispanic students from middle- and upper-class families, has long struggled to support low-income and minority students.A new superintendent hired in 2018 intends to disrupt this status quo, and has...
Two Boulder County children enter kindergarten. One has well-educated parents and a family with an income that is middle class or higher. The other has parents with less schooling and a lower income. Odds are, their futures look different. YOUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION –...
Every summer growing up, Emily Sánchez crammed into a car with her parents and three siblings to visit their beloved Southwest desert. On their long road trips from Longmont, her dad vividly described living with his Native Apache great-grandparents while his...
Colorado’s governor, Jared Polis, made free, full-day kindergarten for all a top priority when he was elected in 2018. It was funded by the end of his first legislative session.Colorado’s governor, Jared Polis, made free, full-day kindergarten for all a top priority...
Boulder County residents are highly educated overall. But the pursuit of strong education outcomes for all students has for decades been met with mixed results, with students from white, non-Hispanic and more educated households consistently faring better than their...
The CU Boulder Dialogues Program is as much about advancing diversity and inclusivity on campus and in our community, as it is about creating a sense of belonging in classrooms and other spaces. “When we use the term ‘dialogue,’ we mean a form of communication...
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 –...
Kicking off August in style, the Center for Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) at Front Range Community College (FRCC) celebrated the grand opening of a new training center for careers in high-tech manufacturing. Kicking off August in style, the Center for Integrated...
“Our mission is to create a critical mass of Latino parents who are well informed and skilled to help their children enter kindergarten ready to learn,” says ELPASO Executive Director Tere Garcia. It’s been two years since your Community Foundation’s School Readiness...
"Our goal is to mix things up – in terms of language, culture, and socio-economic status – in the biggest ‘pot’ we can. Then, in addition to making sure that all our students have a great educational experience, a lot of our learning is social learning." “In every...
"First-generation Latinx students count on Adelante! to help make their dreams come true, becoming lifelong learners along the way." “The Adelante! program seeks to decrease the dropout rate and increase the graduation rate for Boulder High School’s at-risk Latino...