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The Community Foundation Serving Greeley and Weld County manages funds that support a wide range of
charitable activities and programs. Each distribution reflects the breadth and depth of causes that are
important to fund holders. The Community Foundation carefully preserves this focus as it continues a fund’s
work into perpetuity.
One of the most popular endowment focus areas is dedicated to benefiting Weld County children and
young adults. This spring, the Foundation announced grant recipients for the most recent distribution of two
funds which maintain a youth-oriented focus.
The Littler Youth Fund, one of the earliest funds to be part of the Foundation, was started by Hubert and Mary
Littler who did not have children of their own but wanted to benefit the county’s youngest residents. The fund
is decades old and the wishes of its founders continue to be honored. The most recent distribution provided
$45,950 to 11 youth-based organizations:
• Book Trust: Billie Martinez/Maplewood Elementary Schools book program
• Catholic Charities, Guadalupe Community Center and Shelter: Children Always learning lab
• Colorado Humanities: Young Chautauqua program
• Community Grief Center: Camp Braveheart for Weld County youth
• Fort Collins Museum of Discovery: Field trip program for Weld County schools
• Greeley Transitional House: Children/Adolescent program
• High Plains Library District Foundation: 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program
• Junior Achievement: JA Start It Up program
• Lutheran Family Services: SafeTouch: The Body Safety program
• Poudre Valley Hospital Foundation: Healthy Hearts for Middle Schools program
• Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools: District 6 Elementary blended learning project
The Rotary / W.D. Farr Endowment also provides youth-focused
funding and is an example of a service organization that created
a fund to honor one of its members. This year the endowment
supported:
Book Trust: Empowering Youth Through Literacy program
Boys & Girls Club: Academic Success program
Partners Mentoring Youth: Community and school-based
mentoring program
SAVA Center: Student Advocate Resource Team Peers
program
Student Recovery Program: General program costs
Weld County School District Six: Nutrition service activities
Weld Food Bank: Kids Backpack program
The Community Foundation Serving
Greeley and Weld County promotes
philanthropy to build resources, develops
partnerships, and provides leadership that
will be of lasting benefit to our
communities.
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Foundation Announces Recipients of
Grants for Weld County Youth Programs
Rand M. Thought: Spring
Cleaning and Simplifying Life
Welcome: New
Board Members
The Community Foundation
Serving Greeley and Weld
County welcomes two new
members to the Board of
Directors:
Kristi Thomas: Vice
President, ACE Hardware,
Greeley
Dale Pratt: General
Manager, Burris Optics
We are excited to work with
both of them to support
philanthropic efforts in Weld
County’s communities.
Our society is not known for its simplicity. It’s known more for its tendency toward
accumulation. We seem to like addition, not subtraction. However, you’ve known
of times when less is more.
Minimalists Joshua Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus have a 20/20 rule regarding the
countless “just-in-case” things we cling to. Here’s how it works: if you can replace
something for $20 or less in 20 minutes or less, you can get rid of it. How much such
“stuff” do we hang onto cluttering our living rooms, bedrooms, closets, and
kitchens (not to mention our attics, basements, workshops, and storage units)?
Millburn and Nicodemus also offer another suggestion to help with simplifying the larger things in our lives.
They suggest being as completely objective and as honest as you can. Look at any possession. Consider if
you have used that item in the last 90 days. If you haven’t, will you use it in the next 90? If not, let it go.
Whether 90 days or some other guideline you choose, they suggest that if your material possessions aren’t
currently a) serving a purpose, or b) bringing you some measure of joy, it might be time to give some away.
There are obvious exceptions, but you get the gist.
This process can, at one time, bring joy to someone else while bringing joy to yourself. In considering
springtime simplifying it might also be useful to consider community good will in a larger sense. Is there a
particular charitable cause or two that means something to you?
Simplifying life may not be desirable for everyone, but it can be a healthy process, and there are needy
people and worthy nonprofits who can make good use of it. You will have helped someone else, and you’ll
feel better because of it.
Upcoming Grant
Deadlines
Arts Alive! Organizational Grants:
Deadline: June 1st
Grants support special interest
projects in the visual, performing
and literary arts, specifically for
non-operational purposes.
Littler Teacher Mini Grants: Deadline:
June 15th
Grants are awarded to projects that
aid in the development of effective
teaching strategies and projects by Weld county teachers. Awards
will be for up to $1,000 per teacher or $2,500 per project involving
multiple teachers.
Find the Community Foundation Online website: visit www.cfsgwc.org
eNewsletter: email [email protected] to be added to the list
Grant Stories: Student
Photojournalism Project
at Bella Romero
Academy
Now more than ever, the use of clear and moving images has
become a cornerstone of how students express themselves. They use it to share their day-to-day activities
with others and to process their experiences growing older in what can be a complicated world.
While students may take selfies with their phones, it’s not as often that they are placed behind the lens
bringing a subject to light. With a grant from the Community Foundation’s Littler Fund, the Bella Romero
Academy Photojournalism Project looked to change this. The school’s 7th and 8th graders were given the
chance to deepen their experience with photography using formal instruction and practice during school
athletic events, clubs, and activities. Other classes gained access to digital cameras in classrooms on a
daily basis as well.
Because of the Photojournalism Project, student-created photography has become the center of the
yearbook, student newspaper, and a student publication, “The Romero Times.” Students take pride in their
work as their families and community members see it on a regular basis. According to Jorge, class of 2020,
“I love that when I look through the yearbook, I know that I had a part in it. I made this happen.”
Community Foundation 2017 Scholarship Awards
At its annual Scholarship Reception on May 9th, the Community Foundation Serving Greeley and Weld
County awarded more than 10 scholarships in excess of $ 220,000 to area students. Scholarships were
awarded from 33 different funds, including three which are new to the Community Foundation.
A full list of scholarship winners is available on our website at www.cfsgwc.org. A photo gallery from the event
is available on The Community Foundation Serving Greeley and Weld County’s Facebook Page.
2017 Profiles Luncheon
Save the date – Tuesday, October 24th
Planning is underway for the Foundation’s 2017 Profiles Luncheon.
This year’s event will be held at the DoubleTree Hilton Greeley
Lincoln Park. It will be a time for the Foundation to celebrate its 20th
Anniversary with the donors, colleagues, and volunteers that have
joined with the Foundation in support of Weld County giving.
The luncheon will feature keynote speaker Sam Adams, a nationally
recognized performer who will help the Foundation consider its
impact on Weld County through the last two decades. Luncheon
presentations will also highlight the role philanthropy can take to
support County communities into the future.
Table and sponsorship packets are currently available. If you are
interested in learning more about how to play a part in this
community event, call Deborah at 970-304-9970 or email
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