Grants
Applications may be downloaded using the button above. You may submit completed applications by email to grants@boulderflatironsrotary.org.
Our grant funds come from our annual peach sale. Find out more and place your orders here:
Our club foundation supports three types of grants: local to the Boulder and Colorado Front Range community, International projects, and emergency funding to disasters.
Eligibility: A recognized organization may apply. Nonprofit 501(c) 3 organizations are preferred but not required. We do not give grants to Individuals. Organizations that receive funds in one year, are not eligible to apply for additional or new funds in the following year.
Duration: Project should be completed within 12 months.
Funding: Grants range in size from $500 to $3,000.
Funds available July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2023: $15,000
Learn About Our Grants
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Are you a local organization in Colorado working in the Boulder County or nearby area? This is the grant track for you! We work with many local partners to support projects in the community. We typically allocate the majority of our annual grants budget to local grants.
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It all begins with an idea. If you are an international project outside the United States, this is the grant track for you. While a smaller allocation of total funds go to this grant track, we often provide thousands of dollars to more than one cause each year.
We happily consider contributing to larger projects with other funding sources and are willing to apply for matching funds at our Rotary District (5450).
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Sometimes money is needed NOW. We understand and are willing to consider emergency requests. We will check our accounts and resources to determine if we can help.
Please emphasize the emergency and the scale of need with your request.
Last Year
Grants by Type
Typical Activities Funded: Grants are typically targeted towards specific short-term projects, one-time events or unique or non-recurring needs. Funded projects generally fall into, but are not limited to, Rotary International's Areas of Focus:
Peace and conflict prevention/resolution
Disease prevention and treatment
Water and sanitation
Maternal and child health
Basic education and literacy
Economic and community development
Environment and sustainability
Other community worthy project
Funding by Year
Our budget each year is limited by the amount we fundraise the previous year and any remaining funds from prior years. The Boulder Flatirons Rotary Club has a Grant Committee that receives, reviews, and recommends grants to the Boulder Flatirons Rotary Foundation (501(c)3) for approval and check writing. The Foundation holds and issues checks based on recommendations from the club.
While we do not have a certain amount to give each year, we will post the total amount at the beginning of each Rotary Year (starting July 1st of each year).
Funding by Year
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Grant Tracker
The grants committee will be updating their review of grants each year on this tracker so that applicants
Past Grant Recipients
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Luna Cultura
Luna Cultura, Art, Science and Culture for Thriving Communities, LLC is a bilingual and bi-cultural company that provides training, consulting and research services in the field of Art and Maker Education, to develop skills, leadership and healing, from an intergenerational approach of cultural identity and good living.
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Early Childhood Service Corps
Early Childhood Service Corps is a service corps of trained, older adults can improve the lives of young children and families, by providing a solution to the workforce crisis in early childhood; while simultaneously enhancing and improving the mental, physical and financial health of the older adults in the corps.
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Growing Up Boulder
Growing Up Boulder's mission is to offer young people opportunities to participate, deliberate, and influence local issues that affect their lives.
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Miles of Smiles
Miles of Smiles’ mission is to provide an avenue for Colorado and Wyoming older adults to experience life riding in nature and outside the confines of their older adult facilities by being a passenger on a trishaw piloted by our trained cyclists.
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Boulder Valley Spellbinders
Boulder Valley Spellbinders oral storytellers bring together young and old to create connections, advance literacy, and enrich the lives of children and volunteers alike.
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TGTHR
Formerly Attention Homes. Homelessness is not just a lack of shelter. It’s the absence of a home — a place where somebody feels safe, comfortable, secure, and valued. Ending youth homelessness requires all young people to have a place to live, employment, access to education, wellness, and a supportive community. That’s what TGTHR has been delivering for 55 years.
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Global Access 2030
We collaborate with local partners in Rwanda and Peru to implement water programs promoting sustainable long-term health. Our commitment to distribution, education, and validation significantly increases the integration of healthy water routines for years to come.
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Sister Carmen
A local organization addressing a number of community needs including hunger. (Not religiously affiliated)
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WOW! Museum
WOW! Children's Museum, formally World of Wonder, is an interactive children's museum located in Lafayette, Colorado geared toward children under 12.
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Greenhouse Scholars
Supporting scholarship and education in our community and the world.
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RYLA and YRYLA
Rotary Youth Leadership Awards and Young Rotary Youth Leadership Awards host a leadership camp for local students in our community. Communication, delegation, emotional, and problem solving skills are emphasized.
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Boulder Meals on Wheels
The mission of Meals on Wheels of Boulder is to provide nutritious meals and a daily well-being check to Boulder residents, regardless of age or income.
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Home Ahead
Formerly Faith Furnishings. HomeAhead Furniture Bank of Boulder County collects donated furniture and household items for distribution to individuals and families transitioning out of homelessness.
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Colorado Friendship
Colorado FriendShip delivers food and clothing to those who need it most — low-income and poverty-stricken children and families, and the homeless and indigent in Boulder County.
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Parlando
Parlando School of Musical Arts’ mission is to provide access to people of all ages and abilities, inspiring them to share in the love of music and the arts through education, community collaboration, and performance opportunity.
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Louisville Public Library
The Louisville Public Library's mission is to inform, involve, and inspire the communities we serve.
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Family to Family
Description goes here
bouldercounty.org/families/get-involved/holiday-giving-programs/
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Share-A-Gift
Since 1972, 50+ years, Share-A-Gift has been helping children of low-income families with holiday gifts in Colorado’s Boulder Valley School District.
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Palestine Refurbishing Project
We joined Boulder Rotary Club to fund computer refurbishing for increasing a Palestinian community’s access to computer, technology, and education .
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Pride Pads
We partnered with Boulder Valley Rotary Club to support Pride Pads in Cameroon.
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Syrian Refugee Crisis
We partnered with the Rotaract Club of Yale to support their project providing medical supplies to refugees in Syria.