Dear TRENDS Diary - Local businesses have struggled to survive the COVID-19 pandemic, and major arts organizations have closed their doors until further notice.But culture, human connection, and the health of our communities have never been more...
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'm a member of CU's class of 2020—the COVID class. It has been almost a year since I left school wondering where I was headed and quite uncertain about where I would land. I recently talked with two friends, class of 2021, who shared familiar...
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...
Join us May 13 to discuss Evicted with EFAA's Julie Van Domelen. Community Foundation Boulder County invites you to join TRENDS Dialogues, where we will explore timely themes through books and conversation. The series is free and open to all, excluding the cost of the...
"As someone on the lower end of the economic spectrum, I know just how few choices you can have when you're trying to rent in a town as expensive as Boulder. That got me curious about what tradeoffs folks are making to try and live in Boulder County." Local journalist...
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...
Dear TRENDS Diary,Last year was incredibly challenging for local businesses, and unfortunately those challenges have continued into 2021.In Nederland, every single business has felt the impact of COVID-19 – whether it be through mandatory closures, modifying their...
Dear TRENDS Diary,I’m a retired healthcare worker and small business owner [The Shop, theshopned.com] in the mountain community of Nederland. I was busy preparing for a festive Frozen Dead Guy Days weekend last March when we went into the shutdown.A small group of...
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...
In an historic moment in local government last week, Marta Loachamin (D-Longmont) – a longtime Boulder County bilingual realtor with ERA Tradewind Real Estate – was elected and sworn in as the first Latina to serve on the three-member Board of County Commissioners. In...
Boulder County has lost a gentle giant who inspired many as a champion and social innovator for Latino families.Nino Gallo succumbed to COVID-19 on Dec. 1. Nino was involved with many people on a wide variety of projects inside and outside the Boulder County...
El mensaje que sigue es en españolDear TRENDS diary,My name is Jose Garcia Madrid and I am the LGBTQ Program Coordinator for OUT Boulder County. When the pandemic started, some of the groups inside the LGBTQ community, which is very diverse, were more affected than...
Dear TRENDS Diary,As a postdoctoral researcher at The University of Colorado-Boulder, and a member of the CU employee union, it’s difficult trying to figure out how to help people in the most effective way possible.The Union right now is mostly graduate workers,...
While our focus and our priority is Boulder County, we also keep tabs on regional and national trends in the social sector, helping to inform our work closer to home. In November, these news items caught our attention... While our focus and our priority is Boulder...
Dear TRENDS Diary -I’m a 45-year-old, married father of two. I go on long bike rides almost every day from our Boulder home. Lots of my friends are curious how someone as healthy as me got COVID, and why it lasted so long. My wife and I and our kids were careful. Yet,...
Dear TRENDS Diary - As I settled into my new home in Lyons five years ago and began to meet new friends and neighbors, I was struck by how people marked time with “before” and “after.” I realized they were referring to the historic flood that devastated the town...
Dear TRENDS Diary -I am fortunate to be pastor at the Light of Christ Ecumenical Catholic Community. We’re an independent group that experiences God with many of the “smells and bells” of traditional Catholic services, but we also practice “radical inclusion,” opening...