Grantee Stories

  • The Colorado-Brazil Program on Sustainable Development Education
    In May 2022, 10 graduate students in CU鈥檚 Masters in the Environment (MENV) program journeyed into the Amazon and Atlantic forests with the Colorado-Brazil Program for Sustainable Development Education to consider those intersections.
  • Susan Thomas and X贸chitl Ch谩vez with musicians Sam Medina and Gilbert Medina.
    Inspired by X贸chitl Ch谩vez, director of CU's American Music Research Center Susan Thomas secured grants to study and preserve the history of music in Pueblo and surrounding areas, and began interviews in 2021.
  • Helanius J Wilkins
    Helanius J. Wilkins鈥 project aims to reflect 鈥榬e-bodying belonging to become better ancestors鈥
  • rural workshop outreach awards
    More than 20,000 people in Colorado and beyond will benefit from community-based initiatives, K-12 programs, legal clinics and other projects in the coming year, thanks to support from the 2020鈥21 CU 抖阴传媒在线 Outreach Awards.These annual awards fund
  • art
    Social justice and the arts take center stage this fall as part of a virtual public series featuring CU 抖阴传媒在线 and community artists and educators.鈥淒ialogues on Art and Social Justice,鈥 a series sponsored by the 抖阴传媒在线 County Arts Allianceand CU
  • The Demystifying Entrepreneurship: Rural Colorado Workshop Series (RCWS)
    Since the start of the pandemic, the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship pivoted their model to continue to serve rural Colorado businesses in a virtual format. The impact of COVID on small businesses has only increased the value of these workshops during this economic and health crisis.

    鈥淭he entrepreneurial mindset is needed now more than ever as we navigate this crisis. Demystifying the process of bringing an idea to market and scaling an organization鈥檚 impact is key to helping our rural economies,鈥 explains Deming鈥檚 Executive Director Erick Mueller.
  • image from a Shakespeare performance
    When the Colorado Shakespeare Festival鈥檚 season and summer camps were postponed to 2021, festival staff members started focusing on the more immediate future.
    What types of virtual experiences could they offer to students and community members for whom spring and summer are synonymous with Shakespeare? While some plans are still in the works, Amanda Giguere, the festival鈥檚 outreach director, recently described how they pivoted their programs to help students and the community stay connected with the Bard.
  • ODECE Summer Bridge Program
    Two months ago, CU 抖阴传媒在线 faculty and staff members were putting the finishing touches on summer camps that serve K-12 students around Colorado and beyond.When the campus moved to remote learning on March 16, CU 抖阴传媒在线鈥檚 summer camp providers had
  • school board meeting
    For Charla Agnoletti, a lifelong commitment to educational equity and social justice began growing up in Denver.As a student, she saw directly how race, language, class, gender, location or immigration status impacts access to quality
  • CU Stars
    March 6, 2020 鈥 Aguilar, Colorado 鈥 The 抖阴传媒在线 is bringing the wonders of the cosmos and an inflatable planetarium to Aguilar on Friday, March 13.CU Science, Technology and Astronomy Recruits (CU-STARs), a
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