Spring is scholarship season at Elevations Foundation. Our team is busily reviewing scholarship applications and preparing for our Celebration of Community on May 14, where we will recognize our 2020 scholarship recipients. We recently got in touch with one of our 2019 scholars, April Cardenas Borrego. April received an Elevations Foundation M.R. Hellie Memorial Scholarship,
Most parents would agree with the sentiment: “Parenting is hard.” When a child has a physical, cognitive or sensory developmental disability, that “hard” job can become utterly overwhelming without adequate resources. In many cases, it’s a 24/7 responsibility that can leave parents feeling burned out, isolated and desperate. Thankfully for families living in Larimer County,
One such person, with a particularly illustrious career, began his research in a high school chemistry class, determining that egg yolks are yellow due to the sulfur compounds in chicken feed. The much-honored atmospheric physicist Dr. Warren M. Washington completed his doctorate in meteorology and began his career at NCAR in 1963-64, becoming a senior
Are you familiar with Junior Achievement (JA)? It is the world’s largest organization dedicated to preparing young people to succeed in a global economy. JA utilizes a volunteer network to deliver programs for students on entrepreneurship, financial literacy and work readiness. We are fortunate to have Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain, Inc. serving our area youth. Elevations’
Do you snowshoe? People have probably been snowshoeing in Boulder County for hundreds of years.
As we close out this year and this decade, we want to take the opportunity to thank our members and our community for their support of our work to give back to the Front Range communities we call home. We believe that together, we are genuinely prosperous. We want to look back on some of
Since 1993, Read Aloud Loveland has been building literacy skills amongst preschool children in the Loveland and Berthoud area. This Elevations Foundation grantee, staffed entirely by volunteer community members, has opened doors to literacy for thousands of young people in the Loveland area. Reading to young children can provide them with lifelong benefits. Children who
Dana is a 9-year-old resident of Boulder and an Elevations Business Banking member. She loves acting, singing, Irish dance, drawing and coding. And she started a nonprofit that has raised over $100,000 for research into rare childhood diseases. She is one of our many Elevations members with a passion for her community and a drive
If you think of skiing in Colorado, chances are you will think of Aspen, Vail, Breckenridge or Keystone. But Boulder County and even Boulder itself have a rich history of skiing all their own. From Eldora in Nederland to the University of Colorado ski team that helped the USA medal in the 1964 Olympics, Boulder
The holiday season is upon us, and we’ve partnered with our friends at Eco-Cycle to provide tips on ways you can reduce, reuse and recycle during the holidays and all year. If we each take smalls steps like these, we can create a significant impact. Gift Wrapping Alternatives Wrapping paper isn’t recyclable, so consider using
