Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle has seen a lot of changes in his 17 years on the job. One of the biggest is the increase in prisoners suffering from mental health issues.When he started as sheriff, the jail population diagnosed with mental illness was 13 to 15%, he...
When Boulder County Public Health looks at health outcomes it wants to change for the better, it casts a wide net to understand the causes and remedy the barriers it finds.When it comes to improving the number of Latina women who get prenatal care, that means...
Enrollment in Medicaid and Colorado’s Childrens Health Program Plus has tapered down after a sharp run-up as the Affordable Care Act was implemented.Enrollment in these two key public health supports was off about 10% from its highest point in 2017. This is likely the...
Call it stealth nicotine. Like the U.S. Air Force’s Stealth bomber, a vaping device can hit its target without being detected.Vaping’s target with the highest profit potential: young people’s brains, where it creates dependence.The stealth aspect? Vaping devices, also...
Boulder County’s uninsured rate remains low, thanks to the Affordable Care Act and local efforts to enroll low-income residents in publicly funded health programs.Enrollment in Medicaid and Colorado’s Child Health Plan Plus was off about 10% at this writing from its...
Longmont Meals on Wheels – focused on providing hot, nutritious meals, as well as a daily wellness check to older adults and people with disabilities – now has 28 routes that cover Longmont and Niwot; this year, for the first time, the nonprofit added two new routes...
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...
Bridge to Justice (B2J) – a grantee of your Community Foundation – has launched a new healthcare and food assistance project to help low- to moderate-income local residents with healthcare and food assistance matters. A year ago on this blog, we highlighted the...
Advocating for disability rights, the Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition (CCDC) – a grantee of your Community Foundation – advances social justice for people with all types of disabilities. Advocating for disability rights, the Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition...
“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...
“We work with children who have been abused and neglected by the people who are supposed to take care of them, and protect them. We aim to change the trajectory of their lives by training and supporting volunteers to advocate for the needs of these children going...
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....
“For students of all abilities and ages – from 5 to 90 years old – our 230 volunteers provided 1,300 lessons to 367 students in 2018. All of our lessons are taught by volunteers..." Since 1975, Ignite Adaptive Sports – a grantee of Community Foundation Boulder County...
The 15 Forever Youth Advisory Committee is now accepting grant proposals from registered 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, youth-serving organizations that are working to address sexual assault and/or mental health needs in Boulder County. We believe in the imagination and...
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...
Last night, in an intimate setting at Community Foundation Boulder County, a panel of local veterans and leaders of veteran programs engrossed a standing-room only audience with their personal experiences in the military, and their insights on the challenges and...
"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...
"We cross lines that usually aren’t – like nationality, race, and socioeconomic status. But what we do isn’t a one-time community-building exercise, and we’re not a charity. By establishing trust over time, we create friendships that develop over years – and that not...
"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...