Grantee Stories

  • rural workshop outreach awards
    More than 20,000 people in Colorado and beyond will benefit from community-based initiatives, K-12 programs, legal clinics and other projects in the coming year, thanks to support from the 202021 CU Boulder Outreach Awards.These annual awards fund
  • art
    Social justice and the arts take center stage this fall as part of a virtual public series featuring CU Boulder and community artists and educators.Dialogues on Art and Social Justice, a series sponsored by the Boulder County Arts Allianceand CU
  • The Demystifying Entrepreneurship: Rural Colorado Workshop Series (RCWS)
    Since the start of the pandemic, the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship pivoted their model to continue to serve rural Colorado businesses in a virtual format. The impact of COVID on small businesses has only increased the value of these workshops during this economic and health crisis.

    The entrepreneurial mindset is needed now more than ever as we navigate this crisis. Demystifying the process of bringing an idea to market and scaling an organizations impact is key to helping our rural economies, explains Demings Executive Director Erick Mueller.
  • image from a Shakespeare performance
    When the Colorado Shakespeare Festivals season and summer camps were postponed to 2021, festival staff members started focusing on the more immediate future.
    What types of virtual experiences could they offer to students and community members for whom spring and summer are synonymous with Shakespeare? While some plans are still in the works, Amanda Giguere, the festivals outreach director, recently described how they pivoted their programs to help students and the community stay connected with the Bard.
  • ODECE Summer Bridge Program
    Two months ago, CU Boulder faculty and staff members were putting the finishing touches on summer camps that serve K-12 students around Colorado and beyond.When the campus moved to remote learning on March 16, CU Boulders summer camp providers had
  • school board meeting
    For Charla Agnoletti, a lifelong commitment to educational equity and social justice began growing up in Denver.As a student, she saw directly how race, language, class, gender, location or immigration status impacts access to quality
  • CU Stars
    March 6, 2020  Aguilar, Colorado The 做厙輦⑹ is bringing the wonders of the cosmos and an inflatable planetarium to Aguilar on Friday, March 13.CU Science, Technology and Astronomy Recruits (CU-STARs), a
  • SPEAK vocal empowerment curriculum
    After more than a decade of research, fine-tuning and field testing around the world, from Boulder to Egypt, Tanzania and Guatemala, two theatre faculty at the 做厙輦⑹ will launch their SPEAK Vocal Empowerment Curriculuma program meant to help women find their voicewith a workshop on March 9 in New York City, in conjunction with the 25th-anniversary celebration of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women.
  • Isabelle Harris
    Build a Better Book takes a different approach to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education. Its educators work with K-12 students in and outside of Colorado, most of whom are sighted, and teaches them how to design objects that are both fun and neededbooks, games and morethat are accessible for all children.
  • Playback Theatre
    December 19, 2019, Paonia, Colo.  A CU Boulder theatre and dance group is heading to Paonia in January to facilitate conversations related to recent economic and social changes in the community.Lets Talk, Paonia! workshops for students and
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