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...
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...
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TRENDS is published by Community Foundation Boulder County, with help from the following contributors:Chris Barge – The Community Foundation’s Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, Chris provided editorial and management oversight of this report, wrote the...
This report uses a great deal of data from the American Community Survey (ACS), a nationwide survey to provide communities updated information in between decennial censuses. The most recent data available through the ACS as of mid-2019 was 2017: thus, unless otherwise...
The TRENDS Report grew out of the Boulder County Civic Forum, which was launched in 1995 as the Boulder County Healthy Communities Initiative. More than 400 residents identified four visions for a healthy community, including: for the people; for the environment; for...
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...
Josie Mares’ family has lived in Longmont for five generations.Her father, Cayetano Martinez, was run out of town — twice — by the Ku Klux Klan, which in the early 1900s had a stronghold in Boulder County.But he came back both times, and today his family is still...
“Boulder County’s so white.” It’s a common narrative, often uttered in criticizing the lack of diversity in the area. It has a ring of truth to it: 78% of Boulder County residents are non-Hispanic white, more than Colorado (69%) and the U.S. (62%).But diversity has...
Boulder County has a reputation as a great place to age well, with people in their 70s, even 80s, crossing the finish line at the BolderBoulder, cycling local trails or walking the track at rec centers across the county.Less visible are the 60% of the 65-plus...
When it was time for Mary Doyle to downsize, she had to leave the Boulder neighborhood she’d called home for 30 years, friends she’d known for decades, stores she’d shopped at.The move to Longmont left her lonelier than she expected, so back to Boulder she went: Not...
Anticipating and responding to shifting demographics and increasing cultural diversity in our community, Leadership Fellows Boulder County – a joint leadership development and networking program of the Community Foundation and the Boulder Chamber — offers emerging...
It took Ray Meyers 35 years to talk about it.The Vietnam War veteran narrowly survived the Battle of Khe Sanh while serving as a radio operator with Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Marines.Decorated twice for heroism, Meyers came home to suffer through problems...
Despite the frequency with which “Native” T-shirts and bumper stickers can be spotted around town — and passing over the fact that the real natives of this land are indigenous peoples — fewer than half of Boulder County residents are from anywhere near here.A full 55%...
The date is seared in Naropa President Chuck Lief’s memory: March 1, 2019. The day one of his students, Zayd Atkinson, an African American, was detained on his front doorstep for picking up trash.“That response, to me, it was completely mindless,” Lief said. “It...
Boulder County’s arts scene is vibrant. The local community embraces the arts; artists continue to cluster here; support is strong from city and county governments, schools, audience members and volunteers, as well as the Scientific and Cultural Facilities...
Boulder County residents have long viewed their community as an environmental leader on Open Space and an innovator on mass transit incentives and bike paths. They aren’t wrong. Yet, challenges persist and some problems are getting worse as the county joins the state...