The Children’s Peace Garden provides hands-on gardening skills, nature study, cooking from the garden and the development of environmental stewardship practices. The children’s activities include, compost and worm composting, making salad, salsa and pizza from the garden, learning about pollinators in the garden and planting vegetable beds. They go to the greenhouse for activities indoors including seed planting. It includes one day field trips for elementary schools, a summer camp, and classroom visits. We would use funding for tools (for smaller hands) and equipment.

Our CU Engineers without Borders team is made up of many ambitious students who want to change the world through the implementation of engineering solutions. This year, we are designing a hydropower system for the L'esperance Orphanage in Mugonero, Rwanda. The orphanage started in 1995 as a response to the genocide and is now home to 129 children. We have partnered for several years with L’Esperance, designing and installing rainwater catchment systems and efficient wood-burning rocket stoves. Funds will go to implementing a micro-hydropower system, which will run fruit dehydrators for a fruit drying business, creating income for the orphanage and bringing them closer to their goal of economic independence. More info at ewbrwanda.org

A GOOD grant will support our final development push. In beta testing now, SmartTrail (smarttrail.geozen.com) features lists, descriptions and maps of Boulder County trails. It allows riders to check trail conditions and post updates. The app also keeps riders up to date on mountain bike happenings with its live Boulder Mountainbike Alliance event and Twitter streams. While mountain bikers are the initial target audience, BMA intends to promote the free SmartTrail app among all Boulder trail users in order to build a more cohesive recreation community and leverage the technology's social networking and information sharing potential. Future improvements include: widespread advertising, trail database expansion, iPhone/Android compatibility.

The event topics will include healthy eating, exercise, gardening, injury prevention and fire safety. WOW! consistently works with local organizations on programming that benefits Boulder County communities. GOOD will make it possible for WOW! to strengthen partnerships with organizations like Food, Family, Farming and initiate and develop meaningful relationships with flagship organizations like Children’s Hospital Colorado. WOW! has a history of recognizing community needs and addressing them through collaborative programs. Museums are ideal platforms for bringing positive social change to communities through engaging means and WOW! aims to use Healthy Fridays as a platform for positive social change through healthy living in Boulder.

The Colorado Shakespeare Festival produces a holiday show each December, and invites school groups to attend weekday matinees. As school budgets are increasingly cut, fewer schools are able to afford field trips, especially to the theater. Live theater is a powerful learning tool for children, as it teaches them about human behavior, creativity, and expression. This winter, CSF will produce "It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play." This classic American story concludes with an important message: every person matters. We truly believe this, and the GOOD Boulder Fund will enable CSF to provide free tickets for school-age children to attend live theater, and talk with the actors after the performance. Support the arts for children!

Courage is Change through it's partnership with GlobeMed at CU-Boulder. Will work to promote, educate and raise awareness about dating and domestic violence. GlobeMed, a student run non-profit organization with GlobeMed at CU-Boulder recognizes that health equity and social justice are not only concerns for developing countries, but are a real issue here in Boulder, Colorado too. Through this partnership with Courage is Change, GlobeMed hopes to spread the word about domestic and dating violence throughout the Boulder community and provide an outlet for victims to seek help. Not only taking measures to rehabilitate women, Courage is Change is responsible for initiating the “It Stops with Me” Campaign in which men and women take a pledge to never engage in any sort of domestic or dating violence.

Last year literally three old couches sat on the corner of 20th and arapahoe well through the winter because the trash service wouldnt pick them up and no one knows what to do with the old things. I propose we create a pick up and break down service that comes to your house to collect your old couches. We will then break the materials down and recycle them into an art project that would hold value to many in Boulder that could be viewed as an iconic truth about college life and displayed in a public square. This project could be ongoing & the only one like it in the country. Lets make our streets prettier without the college couch grunge. All unused materials could still be recycled and reused instead of just landing in a dump.

In Uganda, BeadforLife reinvests its net proceeds in community development work that fights extreme poverty including: projects in health care, vocational training for out-of-school youth, affordable housing and entrepreneurial skills development. In the developed world we reinvest in education programs to sell our products and provide opportunities for people to learn about and get involved in fighting extreme poverty.

I would like to contact the group in Philadelphia and use their program as a model. I would use funds to advertise the group, attract volunteers, and get supplies. I would contact local stores for donations (such as shoes), but may need to buy things as needs arise.

Each year the Grillo Health Information Center develops free public health presentations by local experts on such topics as stem cell research, traumatic brain injury, uses and concerns of medical marijuana, mind-body medicine, threat of pandemic virus, etc. Venues are reserved for easy community access. We seek and obtain the best experts. We film, edit, produce, and publish DVDs of each lecture for free distribution. These efforts require funding, averaging $500 per health lecture event, to enable us to implement three such educational forums per year.

iEmpathize is a Boulder based 501c3 seeking to instigate change in Boulder and beyond. Using photography, artifacts, film and media iEmpathize creates pathways of empathy for the general public to connect with vulnerable and victimized children exploited in the child sex trafficking industry. Your support help to instigate change as we seek to address the issue of the sex trafficking of minors in the Boulder area and around the globe. visit iempathize.org for more.

The Wellness Initiative (TWI) was founded in 2006 to provide yoga to K–12 students in Colorado and address the growing concern that low-students of all ages suffer from increasingly stressful and unhealthy lives. Because many of the students in our programs lack the opportunities and tools to relax, reflect, strengthen, and focus, their self-confidence, physical health, and academic performance suffer. During the 2011–2012 school year, we will combat these issues by serving 2,500 students in 31 schools in five counties in Colorado.

Find available open space farming land through the county or city and hire a farmer to organize tasks that will be posted for the homeless to follow. the $1500 will be used to purchase plants and seeds and tools. people in the community can come help donate their time and energy to this project as well. People in need might be able to get free food from associated restaurants also....helping with nutritional needs for them as well.

The Blue Line offers Boulder something new: a community forum where groups and individuals can offer news, analysis and opinion on a wide range of issues of interest to Boulder residents. We have hosted debates by community members on controversial issues like SmartRegs, mountain bikes on city open space, and municipalization. We use free, open-source software and systems as much as possible but there are still expenses. We rely on donations and monthly sponsors to stay afloat. Additional funds would be used to pay student journalists for reporting on issues of interest to Boulder, like the upcoming election, local food movement, solutions to Uni Hill, transit, cycling, neighborhoods, renewable energy, urban wildife, and the arts.

Purchase a fleet of bikes stationed at the shelter that can be checked out by anyone. They can all be trained on bike mechanics by Community Cycles so that the bikes don't go into disrepair. This will give people the freedom to move around boulder while being active and healthy.

The idea for the $1500 is to set up a weekend expo where Boulder residents can drop off old glasses for donation. We would have optometrists on-site determining the prescription of these glasses and sorting them for giveaway. They would also be there to administer eye exams. Those who are less fortunate, including the elderly, can come to the expo and get free pairs of glasses (that normally cost a small fortune). This expo would help overcome the normal challenge of not knowing the exact prescription of free glasses, and would ensure that they're getting the right prescription for their vision. The money would be spent hiring an optometrist, renting a tent and tables, and advertising the event.

By using the $1,500 earned from this challenge, I would collaborate with the WSJ and possibly the previous sponsor and see what the $1500 would bring in keeping the in paper and online access for free for business students ( all of them if possible). This would help keep the Boulder community ( since CU affects it so much) financially responsible and knowledgeable about how events elsewhere are relevant here and our part in this world. Keep in mind business students aren't just your average teenager, they can be your next-door neighbor, a grad student, someone tuning their knowledge or a business professional downtown.

Rather than providing financial or material support for people leaving poverty, the Circles Campaign focuses on developing social capital (primarily relationships and resources) in support of long-term empowerment and self-sufficiency. A "Circle Leader" is the head of a family who has completed a 15-week Getting Ahead class and has asked for support from the larger community in order to permanently move out of poverty. Each Circle Leader is matched with 2-4 "Circle Allies", who are trained community volunteers interested in developing relationships with people from different backgrounds and walks of life. At monthly meetings, Allies support their Circle Leader as they take steps towards achieving their future plan.

15 separate random acts of happiness, each around $100 funded by Maker 1. Coffee at a random spot for as many people as $100 will buy. The barista can choose to spread these coffees out over the day or pick an hour etc. 2. 10 dollars each to 10 street performers and TONS of applause for their shows. 3. An open $100 tab at a local bar for some randomly free beers. Bartenders choice! 4. $150 worth of subs for the homeless folks along the Mall 4.5 Water bottle refills at the top of Sanitas (free!) 5. $50 spent on stamps for people at the post office 6. Hand out two dollars to 50 people and ask them to do something more with it (and put it on this site!) 7. Pay any parking ticket you see, leave a note 8. Cupcakes for evvvveryone. ...!

web site would allow exchange of "parents in need of help" geographically and would develop more local intimacy/neighborhood feeling. I can't take the time to drive one hour to visit my Parents every weekend; but would like to have a more close-neighbor fit-adult go help them, and I would help somebody else's parents who lived closer to me. Every hour I work, I get credit that My Mom or Dad could "cash in " with somebody in the system close to them. Initial meeting would require safety concerns to be addressed, etc.