Nonprofits briefs – November 2016

BRIEFS

Thirteen local collaborative groups were recognized as Live United Collaboratives by Foothills United Way. Each of these groups is made up of nonprofits, government agencies, school districts, faith communities, businesses and other leaders in Boulder and Broomfield counties that have illustrated their dedication to collaborating with each other to solve some of the area’s most pressing issues. The partnerships include Boulder County ABCD Partnership, Boulder Homeless Service Collaborative, BVSD Arapahoe Ridge School-based Heath Center Collaborative, Dream Big Initiative, DV/CPS Collaboration and Consultation Team, Human Services Alliance, Human Services Transportation Collaborative, Mountain Human Services Collaborative, No Student Hungry Partnership, SMILES Virtual Dental Home Collaborative, The Early Childhood Council of Boulder County, Truancy Improvement Project (TIP) and Westlake Middle School Collaborative.

V3 media marketing joined Pathways, a Fort Collins-based nonprofit specializing in expert hospice care, palliative care and grief and loss support, as a corporate partner at the silver level, valued at $3,000. The corporate partner program provides an outlet for community-minded businesses in Northern Colorado to support Pathways’ programs and services.

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GOOD DEEDS

The Community Foundation of Northern Colorado is partnering with multiple local businesses on a “Celebrating Gratitude” letter-writing campaign. Community members are encouraged to write letters of gratitude to military veterans they know and deliver them around Veterans Day, Nov. 11. Community members also can write general letters to veterans and send them to Veterans Compass at P.O. Box 1, Fort Collins, CO 80522. Veterans Compass will then collect those letters and distribute them to veterans. The community also is invited to honor veterans at an event at Veteran’s Plaza at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 12. Air Force ROTC Detachment 90 will host a Veterans Day ceremony, with retired U.S. Air Force Col. Rhip Worrell, a Vietnam veteran, delivering the keynote address.

The Northern Colorado gardening community stepped up during this growing season to help those in need, delivering more than 46,411 pounds of fresh produce through the Plant it Forward program, which benefits the Food Bank for Larimer County. As a joint partnership between the Gardens on Spring Creek and the food bank, Plant it Forward is a community-activation campaign that encourages gardeners to plant, grow and share some of their fresh produce with community members in need. Two highlights of the year include the contribution from local gardener Dr. Tom Jamart, who has dedicated his backyard garden to the Plant It Forward program for the past five years. This year, he cultivated and harvested 3,121 pounds of produce.  Another highlight includes Redeemer Lutheran Church donating nearly 10,000 pounds from its on-site garden.

GRANTS

Colorado Creative Industries, a division of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade, awarded $1.3 million in grants to 180 arts organizations in Colorado. The grants went to groups in 47 counties and represented an increase from the 162 grants awarded in 2015. CCI was established to boost the creative sector’s ability to enhance economic growth. Forty-seven percent of grant funds went to organizations located outside of the Denver metropolitan area. Grants are awarded annually on a competitive basis. Recipients in Boulder County included Ars Nova Chambers Singers Inc., Art as Action, Boulder Chorale, Boulder County Arts Alliance, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, CenterStage Theatre Co., Chamber Music Society of Boulder, City of Lafayette Community Development Department, Colorado Film Society, Colorado Music Festival and Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts, eTown, Frequent Flyers Productions Inc., Imagination Makers Unlimited, Longmont Council for the Arts, Longmont Symphony Society Inc., Motus Theater, Parlando Inc., Rocky Mountain Revels Inc., Stories on Stage, Studio Arts Boulder, Boulder Symphony, The Catamounts NFP and Third Law Dance/Theater Inc. Broomfield County recipients included Broomfield Dance Inc., Colorado Conservatory of Dance, Control Group Productions, The Broomfield Council on the Arts and Humanities and the Schiff Dance Collective. Larimer County recipients included Bas Bleu Theatre Co., Canyon Concert Ballet, City of Fort Collins’ Lincoln Center, City of Loveland’s Loveland Museum/Gallery, College of Liberal Arts at Fort Collins Art Museum, Dance Express, Fort Collins Museum of Art, Fort Collins Symphony Association, IMPACT Dance Co., International Keyboard Odyssiad and Festival, Northern Colorado Intertribal Pow-wow Association Inc., OpenStage Theatre and Company Inc., the Center for Fine Art Photography and Larimer Choral Society. Weld County recipients included

Colorado Dance Theatre Inc., Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra Association Inc. and The Greeley Chorale.

The Women’s Fund of Weld County Inc., a Greeley-based component fund of the Community Foundation, announced a $55,000 donation to its endowment from West Valley Community Church. The church is closing, and the donation came from its last remaining board member, Dolores Willis.