School is Cool, now in its 29th year, stuffed 2,800 backpacks with high-quality, grade-specific supplies for PSD students in grades K-12. And for the first time in program history, School is Cool provided 300 CSU students with supplies for the fast-approaching school year.
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Since 2012, middle and high school students in the Poudre and Thompson School Districts have been awarding grants to local nonprofits through Give Next, a youth philanthropy leadership program managed by the Bohemian Foundation in partnership with the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado and the Give Next Advisory Committee.
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The Fort Collins Musicians Association (FoCoMA), Odell Brewing, and Sustain Music & Nature have come together to produce a brand new, social distancing friendly concert series at the historic Holiday Twin Drive-In Theater.
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Places like New York City or Austin, Texas are globally recognized as creative hot spots, with thriving music, arts and entertainment cultures. A company called Creative Vitality Suite recently looked beyond these major creative hubs, and ranked the 30 most creative small cities around the country.
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A new $5 million Larimer County Small Business Recovery Loan Fund has begun to accept applications. Colorado Enterprise Fund will manage the fund, which includes, so far, $2 million in lending capital with initial capital provided by the Bohemian Foundation.
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The coronavirus pandemic has left countless members of the music community facing an uncertain future, as festivals and tours are canceled, studio sessions are called off and business travel is restricted. To help music professionals and their loved ones navigate the crisis, Billboard has compiled a list of resources at both the national and state levels, including more than four dozen relief funds.
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Pianos About Town, an interactive public art program in Fort Collins, is seeking piano donations to be painted or artistically decorated for the program. The program needs full-size upright pianos that are at least 48″ tall and in good working order.
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The Bohemian Foundation has awarded $557,228 to 39 local organizations working to encourage and enable youth to thrive and to empower individuals and families on the path toward economic stability.
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Bohemian Foundation has announced awards of $114,150 to 12 organizations working locally to strengthen community through music.
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For the month of October, Grantmakers in the Arts' photo banner features work supported by Bohemian Foundation.
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The Bohemian Foundation created the "Give Next" campaign, which aims to help teens learn the value of giving back to their communities.
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Four of Bohemian Foundation’s global grantees are featured in a new film by Freethink that celebrates the community health worker movement and the critical role community health workers play bringing healthcare to the people. The four grantees, Last Mile Health, Living Goods, Lwala and Medic Mobile are also members of the Community Health Impact Coalition, a five-year quality initiative to catalyze the adoption of high-impact community health systems design.
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More than 400 middle and high school students from Thompson and Poudre school districts awarded just over $100,000 in grants to several community nonprofits recently through the Give Next initiative.
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There's a secret message left in the painted piano outside Fort Collins' Old Town Library. You can find it just under the lip of the upright piano's top panel, which Bob Ottermann delicately unscrewed and removed Thursday morning, revealing a network of steel strings, wooden hammers, piano innards and the message.
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Bohemian Foundation awarded a $100,000 grant to Teaching Tree Early Childhood Learning Center to support the expansion of its child-care center in Fort Collins. The gift advances a campaign that will allow Teaching Tree to more than double its licensed capacity, from 101 to 215 children, and more than double its space, from six to 12 classrooms.
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Those experiencing or at risk of homelessness can get extra help from dozens of Fort Collins organizations and businesses during Project Homeless Connect on April 12. The "one-day, one-stop" event, scheduled from 8 a.m. to noon at Northside Aztlan Community Center, 112 Willow St., will feature a range of free services, with each participant paired with a volunteer who will help them navigate Project Homeless Connect.
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A typical day for Cheryl Zimlich, the Fort Collins-based Bohemian Foundation’s executive director, is filled with meetings. The result of each one of those meetings has the potential to make a great impact on Northern Colorado.
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Music has the power to strengthen community; and so, too, do the nonprofits of Northern Colorado. Bohemian Foundation’s Music Programs aims to support both through Muse, a grant program that has awarded more than $235,000 to nonprofits since launching in 2017. Muse grant recipients each have popular contemporary music at the core of their organization or program.
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Bohemian Foundation will host a series of workshops to inform local nonprofit organizations about grant opportunities that may be available as part of the foundation’s Muse program.
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Bohemian Foundation today announced that it awarded $540,000 to 37 local organizations…
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