NEWS RELEASE
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY
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Community Foundation Boulder County, the community’s trusted philanthropic partner for more than 30 years, recently announced 145 community partners selected as 2023 Community Trust grant recipients. This year’s grantees, selected by community volunteers, will receive a combined total of just under $400,000 to help address Boulder County’s most pressing needs.

“We are lucky to have so many amazing partners working to make our community a place where all can thrive,” said Tatiana Hernandez, CEO of Community Foundation Boulder County. “We’re grateful to work alongside them and strengthen their efforts for the benefit of our community.”

The Community Trust is an endowed fund of Community Foundation Boulder County which offers discretionary grants to community partners addressing pressing needs and seeking equitable outcomes in our community. Every year, the community foundation nurtures and activates the leadership of roughly 80 community volunteers who review grants and make funding recommendations across six areas: animal care and welfare, arts and culture, civic engagement, education, environment, and health and human services.

“Our grantmaking process is driven by the community,” said Sarah Harrison, the community foundation’s vice president of programs. “We value the leadership and wisdom of our community volunteers who come together to make funding recommendations.”

To learn more about the Community Trust or to see a full list of 2023 Community Trust grantees, visit commfound.org/grants.

2023 Community Trust Grantees ($388,545 Total)

Animal Care and Welfare ($19,270 Total)

• Annie and Millies Place
• Brighter Days Dog Rescue
• Colorado Horse Rescue
• Colorado Pet Pantry
• Front Range Freedom Rescue
• Good Life Refuge
• Humane Society of Boulder Valley
• The Street Dog Coalition

Arts and Culture ($84,800 Total)

• 3rd Law Dance/Theater
• Arts HUB
• Boulder Ballet
• Boulder County Arts Alliance
• Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
• Boulder Opera
• Casey Middle School
• Cellists for Change
• Colorado Music Festival
• Creativity Alive
• Cultural Caravan
• Dairy Arts Center
• East Window
• Empathy Theatre Project
• Firehouse Art Center
• Frequent Flyers Productions
• The Friends of the Longmont Museum
• Harvest Of All First Nations
• JLF Colorado
• Kutandara
• Lafayette History Museum
• Local Theater Company
• Mi Chantli
• Motus Theater
• Museum of Boulder
• NAACP Boulder County
• The New Local
• Nobo Art District
• Parlando Incorporated
• Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra
• Shaolin Hung Mei Kung Fu Association
• Stories on Stage
• Street Wise Arts
• Studio Arts Boulder
• T2 Dance Company
• VIVA Theater

Civic Engagement ($26,975 Total)

• Boulder Showing Up for Racial Justice (BSURJ)
• Boulder Watershed Collective
• Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition
• Colorado Latino Leadership & Research Organization
• Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition
• East County Housing Opportunity Coalition
• Korey Wise Innocence Project, University of Colorado
• League of Women Voters of Boulder
• New Era Colorado Foundation

Education ($42,400 Total)

• Access Opportunity
• Boulder High School
• Community Educational Outreach
• Connect Digital Inclusion Labs
• Family Learning Center
• Impact on Education
• New Horizons School
• Open Door
• Teens, Inc
• TLC Learning Center
• Wild Plum Center for Young Children and Families
• YWCA Boulder County
• Zonta Foothills Foundation

Environment ($34,000 Total)

• 350 Colorado
• Cal-Wood Education Center
• Cottonwood Institute
• Drylands Agroecology Research Foundation
• Eco-Cycle
• Growing Gardens
• Resource Central
• Sustainable Resilient Longmont
• Thorne Ecological Institute
• Wild Bear Center for Nature Discovery
• Wildlands Restoration Volunteers

Health and Human Services ($181,100 Total)

• A Precious Child
• Association for Community Living
• Audio Information Network of Colorado
• Autism Society of Boulder County
• Blue Sky Bridge
• Boulder Alano Club
• Boulder Community Housing Corporation
• Boulder County AIDS Project
• Boulder Food Rescue
• Boulder Housing Partners Foundation
• Boulder Shelter for the Homeless
• Boulder Valley Womens Health Center
• Boulder Voices for Children
• Bridge House
• Bridge To Justice
• Center for People With Disabilities
• Coal Creek Meals on Wheels
• Colorado Friendship
• Community Food Share
• Community Roots Midwife Collective
• Cultivate
• DreamSpring
• El Centro Amistad
• El Comite de Longmont
• Emergency Family Assistance Association
• Ensight Skills Center
• Feet Forward – Peer Supportive Services and Outreach
• Focus Reentry
• Foundation for Scalable Innovations in Education
• Habitat For Humanity of the St. Vrain Valley
• Harvest of Hope Pantry
• HomeAhead
• Ignite Adaptive Sports
• Imagine!
• Immigrant Legal Center of Boulder County
• Inn Between of Longmont
• Intercambio Uniting Communities
• Jewish Family Service of Colorado
• Longmont Community Justice Partnership
• Longmont Food Rescue
• Longmont Meals on Wheels
• Longs Peak Hospital Foundation
• Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund
• Meals on Wheels of Boulder
• Mother House
• Naropa Community Counseling
• Nederland Area Seniors
• Nederland Food Pantry
• Off the Ropes
• Out Boulder County
• Outreach United Resource Center
• Project Angel Heart
• Qualified Listeners Corp
• Queer Asterisk
• Ray Of Hope Cancer Foundation
• Recovery Café Longmont
• Reentry Initiative
• Rise Against Suicide
• Rocky Mountain Legal Center
• Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence
• Sister Carmen Community Center
• St. Benedict Health and Healing Ministry
• TGTHR
• There With Care
• Thistle Community Housing
• TRU Community Care
• Uproot Colorado
• Women’s Wilderness Institute

About Community Foundation Boulder County

Vision:

Community Foundation Boulder County envisions a thriving, equitable and inclusive community that collaborates to ensure everyone in Boulder County experiences a life of opportunity and fulfillment.

Mission:

Community Foundation Boulder County nurtures and activates the ideas, generosity and leadership of the community to galvanize resources and support equitable solutions for all who live/work in Boulder County.

History:

Since 1991, Community Foundation Boulder County has addressed the evolving and growing needs of the Boulder County community, granting over $150 million.

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