Overview

Fort Collins Foothills Rotarians provide service to others, promote integrity and advance world understanding, goodwill and peace through our fellowship of business, professional and community leaders. Rotary members throughout the world believe we have a shared responsibility to take action on our world’s most persistent issues.

Globally, Club members work together to advance the seven priority areas of Rotary International:

  • Promote peace
  • Fight disease
  • Provide clean water, sanitation and hygiene
  • Save mothers and children
  • Support education
  • Grow local economies
  • Protect the environment

Locally, the Foothills Rotary Community Service Committee represents the Foothills Rotary membership and furthers the Club’s goal to support organizations committed to helping those in need in Northern Colorado. The committee solicits, reviews and awards grants to nonprofit organizations on a quarterly basis, coordinates Rotary participation in volunteer projects and helps educate Rotarians on nonprofit agencies and community challenges. Priority areas are:

  • Disadvantaged youth
  • Low-income populations

 

Applying For A Nonprofit Grant

Grant Eligibility:

  • Applications from 501(c)3 organizations serving individuals in Fort Collins.
  • Preference given to nonprofits requesting funds that meet our global or local priority areas above.

Grant Awards: Foothills Rotary generally awards grants of $1,000.

Volunteer Request: Does your nonprofit need volunteers for an upcoming project? Please include a brief description in your application.

Application Deadlines:

  • December 1
  • March 1
  • June 1
  • September 1
Questions:  Doug Hay, Community Service Chair, grants@fcfoothillsrotary.com

The impact we're already having:

2024 calendar quarter 1

Center for Family Outreach

The Center has a long and successful standard of excellence in providing education, prevention and early intervention programming for students and their families. ​Their work is focused on strengthening family relationships, promoting positive communication and developing problem solving skills for both students and parents. ​

The Center's goal is to help students and families establish and sustain these long-term, positive practices.

Their staff specializes in addressing challenges with adolescent behaviors and family conflict. They help find solutions together to overcome all obstacles, even through the most challenging of times.

Disabled Resource Services

Disabled Resource Services (DRS) is a non-profit organization serving Larimer and Jackson Counties. We focus on assisting people of any age and any disability: physical, visual, auditory, cognitive, or mental/emotional. Through our Access to Independence program, our staff works with our consumers to make and achieve goals designed to alleviate the stressful conditions in which individuals live. The result: People lead more productive and self-directed lives with increased dignity, quality of life and independence at home and in society.

 

Safe Families for Children Northern Colorado

Safe Families for Children (SFFC) hosts vulnerable children and creates extended family-like supports for families facing a crisis through a community of compassionate volunteers to keep children safe and families together.

Since 2003, SFFC has arranged close to 50,000 hostings in Host Family homes across the United States. The number of hostings are even higher when combined with existing efforts in the United Kingdom and Canada.

On average, a child stays with a Host Family for slightly less than 45 days. Parents are referred for a variety of reasons but mostly because of an unstable living environment or crisis. The majority of children hosted are younger than 6 years of age, and 95% return to their parent or a relative who is in a better position to care for them.

2023 calendar quarter 4

CASA of Larimer County

CASA of Larimer County advocates for safe, nurturing, and permanent connections to family and community so children who have experienced abuse and neglect have the opportunity to thrive.

In 1987, Judge John-David "Sonny" Sullivan founded CASA of Larimer County, making our organization one of the first CASA programs in Colorado. Today, we accomplish our mission through three core programs:

  • Court Appointed Special Advocates
  • Family Connections
  • Trust-Based Relational Intervention®

ChildSafe

We believe in a comprehensive, community-based approach to the problem of child sexual abuse

We coordinate services with law enforcement, child protection agencies, schools, medical professionals, and other mental health providers to ensure that our client’s rights and privacy are protected throughout each stage of the process.

Museum of Art Fort Collins

Our mission is to boldly explore contemporary society through art–enlightening, educating, and providing arts leadership for our region. We connect art, artists and community.

  • We will do this by sparking thought and conversations with community members, museum members, patrons, artists and businesses throughout the region to understand their interests, expanding beyond the walls of the building. 
  • We will create exhibitions and programs that inspire, teach and speak to a variety of community interests.
  • We will serve in an arts leadership role that connects art, artists and community through shared experiences.
  • We will stand resilient in the face of financial needs (issues) by creating exhibitions and programs that create a committed audience, bringing increased revenue, donations, awards and recognition throughout the Mountain West region.
  • We will be successful by staying focused on our guiding principles: connected, relevant and visionary.
  • We will create a facility that is a recognizable and desired destination.

2023 calendar quarter 3

Coats & Boots

The North Fort Collins Business Association,, in conjunction with Jax, purchase coats and boots to distribute to children deemed to be the most impacted by poverty. In the past, NFCBA collected more than $25,000 and served the schools in north Fort Collins; every year the goal is to meet the needs of all PSD students in Fort Collins. The mission is simple: to provide high quality winter coats and boots to Poudre School District’s students living in poverty or in need. This organization's vision is that all children in Fort Collins will be properly outfitted for our wintry weather and be able to enjoy the pleasures of playing in the snow. After 15 years they have proudly provided coats and boots to all elementary schools in the Poudre School District.

Finally Home

Finally Home is a non-profit whose mission since 2008 is to equip foster, adoptive, and kinship families to build healthy homes where kids can heal. Since inception, almost 1,500 families have benefited from their programs and products, which are designed to give parents the tools they need to help their kids and family thrive. Whether through an encouraging children’s story book, a therapeutic toolkit, or an empowering training, Finally Home’s resources reinforce time-tested skills and characteristics found in healthy families.

Give Next

Give Next is a school-based program that provides Larimer County middle and high school students with hands-on experience in philanthropic giving. Because Bohemian Foundation pays all credit card processing fees associated with gifts to the Give Next program, 100% of your gift will be granted to the local nonprofit organizations selected by local Give Next students.

2023 calendar quarter 2

Safe Families for Children

We are a local chapter of a national movement made up of thousands of volunteer families who have opened their homes to care for children whose families are experiencing a personal crisis. We were started to serve families to prevent children from experiencing abuse, neglect, and entering the foster care system.

Neighbor to Neighbor

Throughout our community, neighbors are helping neighbors stay in their homes, regain stability, and achieve homeownership. It was on this premise that Neighbor to Neighbor was founded in 1970, when neighbors in Fort Collins banded together to help a family in danger of losing their home. Together, we’ve experienced the exponential effect of that one simple, neighborly act. Today, we help more than 10,000 neighbors achieve, preserve and own their own homes each year.

Disabled Resource Services

Disabled Resource Services (DRS) is a non-profit organization serving Larimer and Jackson Counties. We focus on assisting people of any age and any disability: physical, visual, auditory, cognitive, or mental/emotional. Through our Access to Independence program, our staff works with our consumers to make and achieve goals designed to alleviate the stressful conditions in which individuals live. The result: People lead more productive and self-directed lives with increased dignity, quality of life and independence at home and in society.

2023 calendar quarter 1

FoCo Café

FoCo Cafe’s mission is to build community by providing nutritious and delicious meals to the people of Fort Collins regardless of their ability to pay while using mostly local, organic, and sustainably grown ingredients.

FoCo Cafe is the first nonprofit restaurant in Fort Collins. Cafe patrons set the price for cafe cuisine in this pay-what-you-can setting. Instead of a cash register, a donation box is inside. If you can give more, please pay it forward. If you have a little less, pay what you can. If your pockets are empty, participate in the community with your time and talent in exchange for a mouth-watering meal. Daily menu selections are made primarily using fresh, locally grown ingredients, and funded by donations.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County

The mission of Boys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

BGCLC opened its door in 1986 as a sole teen center located in Fort Collins, and has dramatically expanded its operations to meet the growing needs of Larimer County. In 1989, it became affiliated with Boys & Girls Clubs of America and officially became the Boys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County.

 

The Family Center / La Familia

Since 1995, TFC/LF has served as Larimer County’s only early childhood and family resource centers.  Now one of 31 family resource centers in the state, TFC/LF provides high quality early childhood education (ECE) to more than 75 children whose parents work and attend school, extensive crisis and family strengthening services as well as leadership and policy opportunities to more than 400 families annually.

With more than 30% of the staff at TFC/LF being native Spanish speakers and over half being bilingual, TFC/LF is a trusted and safe place for Latinx families and is looked to by the Fort Collins and surrounding community as a leader in racial equity work.

2022 calendar quarter 4

ChildSafe

We believe in a comprehensive, community-based approach to the problem of child sexual abuse

We coordinate services with law enforcement, child protection agencies, schools, medical professionals, and other mental health providers to ensure that our client’s rights and privacy are protected throughout each stage of the process.

Coats & Boots

The North Fort Collins Business Association,, in conjunction with Jax, purchase coats and boots to distribute to children deemed to be the most impacted by poverty. In the past, NFCBA collected more than $25,000 and served the schools in north Fort Collins; every year the goal is to meet the needs of all PSD students in Fort Collins. The mission is simple: to provide high quality winter coats and boots to Poudre School District’s students living in poverty or in need. This organization's vision is that all children in Fort Collins will be properly outfitted for our wintry weather and be able to enjoy the pleasures of playing in the snow. After 15 years they have proudly provided coats and boots to all elementary schools in the Poudre School District.

Family Housing NetworkFamily Housing Network

In 2009, FHN expanded the work of Loveland’s Angel House, a member of the national Interfaith Hospitality Network/Family Promise program. Recruitment of faith communities was initiated with the intention of extending the 10-year-old Loveland program to Fort Collins. By 2011, sixteen congregations had been recruited that were willing to host up to four families that were experiencing homelessness for a week at a time, from 5 pm to 7 am the following day on a rotating basis, with Angel House providing screening, day time shelter and case management.

FHN operates in cooperation with the Sister Mary Alice Murphy Center for Hope, nine local congregations committed to providing onsite housing and eight congregations committed to supporting those host sites.

2022 calendar quarter 3

Putnam Elementary School

Putnam Elementary ensures each student is successful in mastering the Colorado Academic Standards. Students learn through an integrated approach which allows them to make connections across content areas. All students are challenged to meet their personal levels of success and receive daily customized literacy and math instruction. Putnam students build communities within their classrooms and throughout our school with positive social interactions. After-school and summer learning activities include tutoring in reading, writing & math, and participation in leadership groups, sports and art clubs, technology and science clubs.

Junior Achievement Rocky Mountain

Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain, Inc. (JA) is part of the world’s largest nonprofit dedicated to motivating kids for future career success, self-sufficiency, and financial acumen. We accomplish this through a huge network of stellar volunteers who share their stories with young people and deliver lessons in career readiness, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship.

Rockin' the Spectrum Center for Autism

  • We provide social skills and practical life skills groups for adolescents and young adults on the spectrum to help facilitate the transition towards independent living in the adult world.
  • We provide support and training for adolescents and young adults on the Autism Spectrum working to secure employment by helping to connect prospective employers with capable people on the Autism Spectrum who may struggle with the interview and on boarding process in a traditional work environment.
  • We also support parents in the diagnosis and services finding process that follows a new diagnosis of autism.

2022 calendar quarter 2

Disabled Resource Services

Disabled Resource Services (DRS) is a non-profit organization serving Larimer and Jackson Counties. We focus on assisting people of any age and any disability: physical, visual, auditory, cognitive, or mental/emotional. Through our Access to Independence program, our staff works with our consumers to make and achieve goals designed to alleviate the stressful conditions in which individuals live. The result: People lead more productive and self-directed lives with increased dignity, quality of life and independence at home and in society.

SAVA Center

The Sexual Assault Victim Advocate (SAVA) Center provides crisis intervention, advocacy and counseling for all those affected by sexual violence in Northern Colorado while also providing prevention programs through community outreach and education.

We envision a culture change that results in the end of sexual violence.

Give Next

Give Next is a school-based program that provides Larimer County middle and high school students with hands-on experience in philanthropic giving. Because Bohemian Foundation pays all credit card processing fees associated with gifts to the Give Next program, 100% of your gift will be granted to the local nonprofit organizations selected by local Give Next students.

2022 calendar quarter 1

CARE Housing

CARE Housing believes that opportunity begins with home. Home is a place where a family can grow and thrive. From the first moment, you will understand our name and commitment to you, your family, and our communities.

Community Literacy Center (CLC)

The primary mission of the Community Literacy Center is to create and facilitate literacy opportunities that invite community members—particularly people experiencing confinement or in recovery—to engage in innovative and supportive writing spaces and to value the writing and art that emerges through conversation and circulation.

Teaching Tree Early Childhood Learning Center

Teaching Tree Early Childhood Learning Center provides quality, affordable, early childhood care for families of all socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. Our children are our future; the growth of each child must be considered on an individual basis. We believe in supporting families and strengthening our community by providing a safe, nurturing and supportive education for our children.

2021 calendar quarter 4

ChildSafe

We believe in a comprehensive, community-based approach to the problem of child sexual abuse

We coordinate services with law enforcement, child protection agencies, schools, medical professionals, and other mental health providers to ensure that our client’s rights and privacy are protected throughout each stage of the process.

Coats And Boots

The North Fort Collins Business Association,, in conjunction with Jax, purchase coats and boots to distribute to children deemed to be the most impacted by poverty. In the past, NFCBA collected more than $25,000 and served the schools in north Fort Collins; every year the goal is to meet the needs of all PSD students in Fort Collins. The mission is simple: to provide high quality winter coats and boots to Poudre School District’s students living in poverty or in need. This organization's vision is that all children in Fort Collins will be properly outfitted for our wintry weather and be able to enjoy the pleasures of playing in the snow. After 15 years they have proudly provided coats and boots to all elementary schools in the Poudre School District.

Foothills Gateway

Since 1972, Foothills Gateway has improved the lives of thousands of people with intellectual & developmental disabilities and their families in Northern Colorado by helping to conquer challenges and achieve their maximum potential. Foothills Gateway strives to empower every ability and highlight the achievements of the human spirit of all ages.

2021 calendar quarter 3

Boy Scouts of America
Longs Peak - Greater Wyoming Council

It is the mission of the Boy Scouts of America to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.

  • Values
  • Integrity
  • Transparency and accountability
  • Leadership
  • Service
  • Family involvement
  • Fun
  • Diversity
  • Outdoor experiences
  • Conservation

Canyon Concert Ballet

Canyon Concert Ballet’s mission as a nonprofit educational organization is to expand, nourish, and enrich the artistic opportunities in classical dance through training, performance, and community outreach in service to the Northern Colorado region.  It is the belief of Canyon Concert Ballet that classical dance should be taught with a great deal of commitment to and respect for the art form while always maintaining the joy inherent in dance.  Class work and performance opportunities should heighten the dancer’s capacity for cooperation, responsibility, and pride. Training and performances should be presented with accessibility for our audiences, volunteers, and artists.

Junior Achievement Rocky Mountain

Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain, Inc. (JA) is part of the world’s largest nonprofit dedicated to motivating kids for future career success, self-sufficiency, and financial acumen. We accomplish this through a huge network of stellar volunteers who share their stories with young people and deliver lessons in career readiness, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship.

2021 calendar quarter 2

Crossroads Safehouse

Crossroads assists victims of domestic violence with emergency shelter, food, clothing and medical care during their stay. We are open 24/7/365, and our residents are able to stay with us a maximum of eight-weeks.

We also serve non-resident clients with outreach advocacy. Individuals and families reach us through our crisis line, which is answered by a trained advocate who will assist with safety planning, trauma informed care and advocacy.

The Family Center / La Familia

Since 1995, TFC/LF has served as Larimer County’s only early childhood and family resource centers.  Now one of 31 family resource centers in the state, TFC/LF provides high quality early childhood education (ECE) to more than 75 children whose parents work and attend school, extensive crisis and family strengthening services as well as leadership and policy opportunities to more than 400 families annually.

With more than 30% of the staff at TFC/LF being native Spanish speakers and over half being bilingual, TFC/LF is a trusted and safe place for Latinx families and is looked to by the Fort Collins and surrounding community as a leader in racial equity work.

The Matthews House

Community supporting community: The Matthews House disrupts the cycles of poverty and abuse in Northern Colorado. They address the causes of childhood maltreatment and generational poverty, not just the symptoms. This makes a life-changing difference in the lives of at-risk youth and families.

2021 calendar quarter 1

Boys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County

The mission of Boys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

BGCLC opened its door in 1986 as a sole teen center located in Fort Collins, and has dramatically expanded its operations to meet the growing needs of Larimer County. In 1989, it became affiliated with Boys & Girls Clubs of America and officially became the Boys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County.

Foundation Music School

Foundation Music School is a non-profit community school of the arts committed to providing high quality opportunities in the arts to interested individuals of all ages, abilities and incomes.

Established in 2006, Foundation Music School reaches approximately 600 students in-house each week and of those students nearly 20% receive full or partial scholarships.  We reach another 1,000 individuals each week through our outreach programs, which include our Poudre School District Early Childhood Music Therapy Program, Preschool Music Programs, Wings Easter Seals Program and our Teen Mom and Baby class.

SAVA Center

The Sexual Assault Victim Advocate (SAVA) Center provides crisis intervention, advocacy and counseling for all those affected by sexual violence in Northern Colorado while also providing prevention programs through community outreach and education.

We envision a culture change that results in the end of sexual violence.

2020 calendar quarter 4

ChildSafe Colorado

ChildSafe

We coordinate services with law enforcement, child protection agencies, schools, medical professionals, and other mental health providers to ensure that our client’s rights and privacy are protected throughout each stage of the process.

Since 1986, ChildSafe has been helping individuals find their voice and inner strength to put them on a path to healing. We also work to educate families and loved ones on how to provide the right support for traumatized children.

Family Housing Network

Family Housing NetworkIn 2009, FHN expanded the work of Loveland’s Angel House, a member of the national Interfaith Hospitality Network/Family Promise program. Recruitment of faith communities was initiated with the intention of extending the 10-year-old Loveland program to Fort Collins. By 2011, sixteen congregations had been recruited that were willing to host up to four families that were experiencing homelessness for a week at a time, from 5 pm to 7 am the following day on a rotating basis, with Angel House providing screening, day time shelter and case management.

FHN operates in cooperation with the Sister Mary Alice Murphy Center for Hope, nine local congregations committed to providing onsite housing and eight congregations committed to supporting those host sites.

FoCo Café

FoCo Cafe’s mission is to build community by providing nutritious and delicious meals to the people of Fort Collins regardless of their ability to pay while using mostly local, organic, and sustainably grown ingredients.

FoCo Cafe is the first nonprofit restaurant in Fort Collins. Cafe patrons set the price for cafe cuisine in this pay-what-you-can setting. Instead of a cash register, a donation box is inside. If you can give more, please pay it forward. If you have a little less, pay what you can. If your pockets are empty, participate in the community with your time and talent in exchange for a mouth-watering meal. Daily menu selections are made primarily using fresh, locally grown ingredients, and funded by donations.

2020 calendar quarter 3

CARE Housing

CARE Housing believes that opportunity begins with home. Home is a place where a family can grow and thrive. From the first moment, you will understand our name and commitment to you, your family, and our communities.

Coats And Boots

The North Fort Collins Business Association,, in conjunction with Jax, purchase coats and boots to distribute to children deemed to be the most impacted by poverty. In the past, NFCBA collected more than $25,000 and served the schools in north Fort Collins; every year the goal is to meet the needs of all PSD students in Fort Collins. The mission is simple: to provide high quality winter coats and boots to Poudre School District’s students living in poverty or in need. This organization's vision is that all children in Fort Collins will be properly outfitted for our wintry weather and be able to enjoy the pleasures of playing in the snow. After 15 years they have proudly provided coats and boots to all elementary schools in the Poudre School District.

And also ...

Project Self-Sufficiency

Our Mission is to assist low-income, single parents in their efforts to achieve economic independence and become free from community and government assistance while building and maintaining strong, healthy families.

Book Trust

Book access is the single biggest barrier to literacy and in low-income areas, the ratio of books-to-children is 1 book to 300 kids, compared to an average of 13 books for every child from a middle-income background.

Book Trust acts as an equity game changer, ensuring that students who need them most have access to books and the agency to make their own choices about what they read.

Partners Mentoring Youth

Our Community-Based Mentoring Program was established as an intervention strategy for youth entering the juvenile justice system in Larimer County, and has evolved to more of prevention-based approach to serve kids who are facing risk factors at an earlier stage. When it was clear that we should expand to have offices in Estes Park and Greeley, we did so. When we saw there was a need for more adult support in schools, we created our School-Based Mentoring program in conjunction with local school districts. When our community was at-risk of losing important universal prevention education services, we expanded our mission and programming.

Habitat for Humanity

Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry, seeking to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.

Habitat invites people of all backgrounds, races and religions to build houses together in partnership with families in need.

Habitat has built more than 100,000 houses around the world, providing more than 500,000 people in more than 2,000 communities with safe, decent, affordable shelter.

Safe Kids Larimer County

Safe Kids Worldwide is a nonprofit organization working to protect kids from preventable injuries, the number one cause of death for children in the United States. Safe Kids works with an extensive network of more than 400 coalitions in the U.S. and with partners in more than 30 countries to reduce traffic injuries, drownings, falls, burns, poisonings, and more. Safe Kids also engages in advocacy efforts to make kids safer at the federal, state, and local levels. Since 1988, Safe Kids has helped reduce the U.S. childhood death rate from unintentional injury by nearly 60 percent.

Grant Fundraisers:

We are proud to sponsor several fundraising programs and events to support our donations to community and international causes.

Purple Pins for Polio

Our yearly bowling tournament is sponsored by the Rotary Clubs in Fort Collins in order to promote community, and raise funds for the ongoing international fight to finally eradicate polio.

Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 30 years. Our goal of ridding the world of this disease is closer than ever.

As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, we've reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent since our first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979.

Fort Collins Peach Festival

The Peach Festival seeks to provide a family friendly event to the Northern Colorado community while promoting service, encouraging community interaction, and allowing local businesses to market and give back to the community through sponsorship.  We are truly so appreciative of your sponsorship and generosity.

Foothills Rotary Cornhole Tournament

Our newest fundraiser was created in 2019 to benefit local and international causes while promoting fun and community. We plan for this to grow as a wonderful event in Fort Collins!
 
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