Boulder County clinic served as pilot for teen pregnancy reduction program In 2007, Susan Buchanan, Executive Director and CEO of Boulder Valley Women’s Health Center, was presented with an opportunity that would gladden the heart of many a nonprofit executive. “When...
Meet Shannon Axe and here’s what you’ll see: a confident, open young woman. Bright, funny and eager to get through the last couple of years of high school and out into the wider world. What you won’t see is what the doctor who delivered Shannon saw: a boy. A boy in...
Boulder County has nearly 64,000 acres of Open Space of which 61 percent is open to the public, 30 percent is preserved for agriculture and 9 percent is closed for various reasons. Nearly 40,000 acres of privately owned land are protected by conservation easements....
Alcohol remains the largest substance abuse problem amongst high school students in the Boulder Valley School District. The 2015 Healthy Kids Colorado survey found that 38 percent of high schoolers had at least one drink in the past 30 days, compared to 30 percent...
If you live in Boulder County, a reverence for nature seems intuitive. All you have to do is turn your face to the west where the foothills of the Rocky Mountains beckon. Turns out, it’s more complicated than that. Limited family finances, parental work hours or...
Some communities are looking for ways to further regulate drilling as oil and gas interests push to ramp up drilling operations, especially when they’re close to housing developments and schools. A fatal house explosion in Firestone caused by a leaking abandoned gas...
If you look around at many of the adults in Boulder County, it makes sense that statistics show Colorado is the least obese state in the country. But the numbers on children who are overweight and obese in Colorado paint a different picture. Nearly a quarter of...
Who will provide electricity to residents of the city of Boulder in the future? It’s a question that remained unanswered as of this writing. The city of Boulder set a goal to use 100 percent clean energy by 2030 and an 80 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2050...
In so many ways, Boulder County is a land of natural abundance – plenty of sunlight and breathtaking scenery at every turn. One thing there isn’t a lot of, though, is water. Boulder County per capita water use ranges from 76 gallons a day in Louisville to 86 gallons...
The American Lung Association released its annual air quality report on Boulder County in April of 2017, and the results aren’t pretty. The report, which pulls from three years of data, 2013, 2014 and 2015, gave Boulder County an F on the number of high ozone days. A...
The Community Foundation’s Environmental Affinity Group (EAG) provides connections and inspiration to donors who are passionate about protecting and promoting our shared environment locally, regionally, nationally, and worldwide. “With the leadership of the Community...
Shannan Reese is one of the 12 percent of the Boulder County population who works at home. “I love the flexibility. I feel like I also get more work done, because I’m by myself,” said Reese, who is senior account director for Denver-based Feed Media, which specializes...
Being a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer kid isn’t getting any easier. While Boulder County has a reputation for openness to LGBTQ concerns, numbers from recent surveys in both school districts indicate that such students are: More than two times more...
Cindy Torres bikes to work every day. Every day means every day in her case. “I live in Mapleton Mobile Home Park. I don’t travel far, 1.8 miles each way,” said Torres, who works as a custodian at the University of Colorado. “I go to work at 4 o’clock in the morning,...
Kate LaCroix donated a kidney in 2016, feeling safe in the knowledge that pre-existing conditions were covered by her health insurance under Obamacare. LaCroix, who lives in Boulder, owns her own integrated marketing business, Kontently, and purchased health care for...
Gerry Emmerich and his wife both work and had health insurance. Hers was through Kaiser, and he had a policy purchased in the marketplace. When she got pregnant, they qualified as a family for Colorado’s Medicaid expansion. In 2015-2016, the average monthly enrollment...
A key tenet of the Community Foundation’s approach to catalyzing community is the recognition that we accomplish more together than we do alone. To tackle local homelessness, the foundation facilitated teamwork through its Boulder Homeless Service Collaborative among...
Sarah Marquez, 34 Where she was: “I was addicted to substances for a very long time. That led me to losing my kids and my family. I went down a road of committing crimes. That led me to drug court. They weren’t able to find a placement. That led me to a halfway...
Mention the homeless and some may think of someone holding a witty sign at a busy intersection. What many don’t realize is that more than 1,200 children in 2017 were registered as homeless in the Boulder Valley and St. Vrain Valley Schools. Add in the 0-5 population...
Kat Goldberg was 39 when her husband died of an overdose. He had become addicted to prescription drugs after being hit by a drunk driver. They had been separated, and she had placed a restraining order against him before he died. She had three kids, 5, 6 and 9, to...