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 October, these news items caught our attention... While our focus and our priority is Boulder...
Dear TRENDS Diary -I run the Outback Saloon in Boulder. I’d like to share my story so that more people take this virus seriously.Way back in March, I got the chills, then a fever, due to COVID-19. Urgent Care wouldn’t test me at first because I didn’t have chest pains...
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 and expand our work closer to home. In September, these news items caught our attention. While our focus and our priority is...
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...
While our focus and our priority is Boulder County, we also keep tabs on regional and national trends in the nonprofit sector, helping to inform and expand our work closer to home. In August, these news items caught our attention. While our focus and our priority is...
Dear TRENDS Diary -I grew up in Ghana, and music began for me through church activities. When I was in college, I traveled to Minneapolis with an a cappella group, and after college I moved to the US to record and perform as a musician. I went back to graduate school...
Dear TRENDS Diary -In April, I did a Zoom happy hour with my sister Robin and two of our close colleagues at the Boulder International Film Festival. We were catching up after a few long weeks of quarantine, when somebody mentioned drive-in movies. At the same time,...
Dear TRENDS Diary -I’m a reference librarian at the Longmont Public Library. Under normal circumstances, I curate the book collections, oversee in-house programs and help visitors at the reference desk.When the pandemic forced us to close on March 13, the normal...
Dear TRENDS Diary - We have families going through six security checkpoints to get in to see their babies. That makes you feel really safe and really scared. The top two emotions of families in the NICU are isolation and fear.You just had a baby. That’s a joy....
Dear TRENDS Diary -I am a documentary filmmaker who planned to retire in February. My retirement lasted less than a month.Many of my films recounted historical events, such as the Civil War and Indian Wars. As the gravity of the coronavirus sunk in, I felt the need to...
Dear TRENDS Diary -Like most humans, I’m a creature of habit. I walk the same path and often overlook what lies beyond my daily routine. But there’s so much more to explore in Boulder.When I saw the grants for the COVID Work Project, it was initially hard for me to...
Dear TRENDS Diary - I am a senior in college, studying to be a music educator. My favorite thing about music is the camaraderie that inevitably results when people make music together.As our communities began social distancing, the first thing I missed was...
Dear Trends Diary,After our two restaurants, Black Cat and Bramble & Hare, closed on March 16th, we were thrown into entrepreneurial chaos. We transitioned to a farm-to-table grocery store selling homemade food and produce curbside from our restaurants and...
Dear TRENDS diary -My name is Eamon Temme, and I am a 4th-grader from Soaring Heights PK-8 School in Erie. I recently held a food drive to support those in need during the COVID-19 pandemic.I did it because I know that, because of this crisis, there are people who are...
El mensaje que sigue es en españolDear TRENDS Diary -I am the Coordinator of the Emotional Wellness Circle of El Centro AMISTAD. We offer emotional health services free of charge to Spanish-speaking immigrants, who otherwise would not have access to these resources...
Dear TRENDS Diary -Laura: We’re both artists and PhD candidates at CU Boulder. I have been interested in taking my creative practice outside of the studio and collaborating with others, both humans and nonhumans alike. My community in Boulder means a lot to me; I’m...
El mensaje que sigue es en españolDear TRENDS Diary,I am the community liaison at Manhattan Middle school and I provide information to the families so they can stay connected with the school. Currently, during the pandemic we are distributing food to the households of...
Dear TRENDS Diary - I make comics. I was on the city of Boulder’s website, I don’t even remember why, and I saw that there was this fund for artists in Boulder who had work cancelled, COVID Work Projects. I was supposed to be doing three shows this spring: Denver...
Dear TRENDS Diary -There's not a lot of history recorded about African Americans in Boulder. For the most part, we feel unseen and on the outskirts of the community.I want to put a spotlight on what's going on in Boulder's black community. I received a grant from the...