BizWest | | 2021 Giving Guide PROFILES OF AREA NONPROFIT AGENCIES | DIRECTORY OF NONPROFITS SERVING BOULDER, BROOMFIELD, LARIMER & WELD COUNTIES INSIDE FOUNDATIONS HAVE COME INTO THEIR OWN AS REGIONAL GROWTH CONTINUES PRESENTED BY HACH CENTER FOR REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT MAY BE PLATFORM FOR NOCO VISIONING HOW HAS NONPROFIT FUNDRAISING FARED IN THIS ERA OF NO-CONTACT ‘EVENTS?’ !"#!$" ! GivingBizWest | | 2021 Guide PROFILES OF AREA NONPROFIT AGENCIES | DIRECTORY OF NONPROFITS Inside SERVING BOULDER, BROOMFIELD, LARIMER & WELD COUNTIES Past quarter century sees rise of foundations ................................ 3 Hach Center hears about method to plan for a future NoCo ...... 7 Pandemic slaps down nonprofit fundraising ................................ 8 INSIDE FOUNDATIONS HAVE COME INTO THEIR OWN PRESENTED BY AS REGIONAL GROWTH CONTINUES HACH CENTER FOR REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT MAY BE PLATFORM FOR NOCO VISIONING HOW HAS NONPROFIT FUNDRAISING FARED IN Cattle Baron’s Ball herds event through pandemic .................... 10 THIS ERA OF NO-CONTACT ‘EVENTS?’ Ranked lists Profiles List: Boulder Valley Nonprofit Organizations ...............................12 BBB - Northern Colorado List: Northern Colorado Nonprofit Organizations .......................13 and Wyo Foundation ......................... 14 McKee Wellness Foundation ............ 16 NCMC Foundation/Weld Trust ........ 18 Directory index United Way of Larimer County ........ 20 Agriculture ...................................22 Human Services ..........................47 Animals ........................................22 International ...............................51 On the cover: Arts & Culture ..............................23 Professional Organization .........51 Food banks across the country have been hit Business/Economic ....................26 Public Benefit ..............................52 hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Demand for food has spiked. “Recovery will outlast Children/Youth ...........................27 Religion/Faith ..............................53 the virus,” said Julia McGee, director of communications for Community Food Share of Boulder County. Here, a Food Share worker Community .................................31 Science .........................................54 loads food for delivery. Courtesy Community Food Education .....................................34 Senior Citizens ............................54 Share of Boulder County. 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Reproduction or use of editorial or graphic content without written permission is prohibited. 2018 Member GIVING GUIDE | THE BUSINESS OF PHILANTHROPY | 2021 1 Care. YOUR NEWS, YOUR WAY. Compassion. Community. Subscribe today BizWest is committed to bringing you the latest business news, trends and topics for your industry - any way you want it. Subscribe to BizWest and get more of the news you want, at an affordable price. Select from three plans that fit your needs, with monthly and annual payment options available. PRINT + DIGITAL | DIGITAL | UNLIMITED 970-232-3143 OR 303-630-1953 BIZWEST.COM/SUBSCRIBE 2 GIVING GUIDE | THE BUSINESS OF PHILANTHROPY | 2021 Past quarter century sees rise of foundations BY KEN AMUNDSON chance that you’d raise enough to have its foundation with Fort Collins to [email protected] a substantial impact? If the amount create the Community Foundation of raised is too small, you either sprinkle Northern Colorado. Other communities In the past few years, as natural it around without impact, or you’re in a in the county also participated in that disasters such as floods and, recently, position of picking winners and losers. organization. medical and economic health Will there be enough resources in it to From those beginnings, the emergencies have hit the region, put a dent in an enormous problem?” community foundations have grown to nonprofit organizations have put The foundation, along with the the point that they can have a significant millions of dollars into play to help Bohemian Foundation and then cities, impact on problems of major scale in those most impacted. towns, banks and other businesses their communities. As recently as this spring, foundations raised $5 million for a loan fund. “Weld Community Foundation have stepped forward to help with So what spawned this rise of has carved out a special place in the COVID-19 relief. The Community foundations? community through so many diverse Foundation for Northern Colorado, for The answer may be multidimensional. connections. In awarding grants and example, created a COVID-19 Response Federal tax policy would be a factor. support to area nonprofits, it has had Fund to supplement the work of Financial planning that helped the privilege of getting to know a vast nonprofit organizations on the front channel the prosperity of individuals majority of the nonprofit organizations lines of working with those affected. would be another factor. Pressure that are diligently working in the And it also participated in the creation placed on the wealthy — often by the region. In working with government of a large business relief revolving loan wealthy themselves — has resulted and infrastructure, the foundation has fund that enabled businesses to stay in the transfer of personal wealth to come alongside community movers afloat during times of shutdown and charitable purposes often in the form of and shakers, and in setting up funds reopening. foundations. with donors, it’s gotten to know Those efforts were not always possible In Northern Colorado, foundational visionaries who want their charitable in the region. Indeed, the past 25 years growth likely got a boost from another gifts well-stewarded with strategic have seen the rise of foundations on a foundation. impact,” the Weld foundation said on scale not imagined a quarter century The Boettcher Foundation, which its website. ago. Now, foundational support — was created in 1937 using the wealth The Community Foundation of whether community foundations, of businessman Charles Boettcher, Northern Colorado has about $132.5 foundations created by philanthropists issued a challenge to the communities million in assets. The Weld Community or foundations that are nonprofit of Northern Colorado, according to Foundation has $32.7 million. The extensions of for-profit corporations research provided by Curtis Esquibel, Longmont Community Foundation — have become an expected partner director of communications for has $18.9 million. The Community when disaster strikes or when problems Boettcher. In 1993, it offered $500,000 Foundation Serving Boulder County, exceed the ability of a single community each to Fort Collins, Greeley, Loveland which is separate from the Longmont to solve. and Longmont if they would match foundation, has $70.3 million in assets. Indeed, foundations have reached the that with $750,000 of new endowment Meanwhile, other foundations have point of being able to ask “can we make funds in order to create community been created, perhaps most notably the a difference, a true impact.” foundations. Bohemian Foundation, created in 2001 In April, as business and government And they did. by philanthropist Pat Stryker. leaders contemplated the creation of Fort Collins already had a community The Bohemian Foundation, which a fund to aid shut-down businesses, foundation that had been created in among other pursuits has a focus on Ray Caraway, then the CEO of the 1975 to fund the construction of the supporting music in order to build Community Foundation of Northern Lincoln Center. Loveland, Greeley community, had $18.9 million in assets Colorado, said this: and Longmont got their foundations in the most recent report available on “The key is the impact. Is there a underway. Loveland later merged GuideStar. 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