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Peak to Peak Charter School in Lafayette was bustling with students ranging from timid third graders to antsy high schoolers on Friday. They weren’t at school for class, however. The I Have a Dream Foundation of Boulder County was hosting approximately 250 kids — mostly minority — for a conference meant to empower and inspire the children.

The “I Have A Dream” Foundation of Boulder County recently recognized the university’s efforts to host precollegiate interns on campus for the past 20 years.

On Feb. 15, CU Boulder received the foundation’s first-ever Building the Dream Internship Host of the Year Award.

The “I Have A Dream” Foundation of Boulder County earlier this year gave an inaugural award to the University of Colorado Boulder.

The honor, called the Building the Dream Internship Host of the Year Award, recognizes CU Boulder’s work over the past two decades to host pre-collegiate interns on its campus, according to a news release from the university.

Students from the I Have a Dream Foundation of Boulder County will participate in a two-day career readiness workshop starting Friday at the University of Colorado.

IHDF mentor Juana Gómez receives daily, national Point of Life recognition.

“I Have A Dream” Foundation of Boulder County’s kicks off its annual summer conference in the Boulder Library’s makerspace.

The “I Have A Dream” Foundation of Boulder County, a long-term school dropout prevention and college and career preparation program for low-income youth, is pleased to announce the addition of four new staff members, two of which previously served “I Have A Dream” as Notre Dame AmeriCorps members.

The “I Have a Dream” Foundation of Boulder County is looking for more businesses to support its teen summer internship program.

(Longmont, CO) — Longmont’s Village at the Peaks is holding free photo sessions with Santa and his elves on select days between Thanksgiving and Christmas; suggested donations will be accepted in support of “I Have A Dream” Foundation of Boulder County’s youth!

About a dozen high school students spent the weekend designing and building Little Free Libraries for two Boulder Housing Partners sites in north Boulder.

The students, who are in the “I Have A Dream” Foundation of Boulder County’s Phoenix class, applied to participate in the paid apprenticeship program at the Boulder Public Library’s makerspace, BLDG 61.

“I was excited to bring these books to anyone who needs them and isn’t close to the library,” said Boulder High sophomore Jeronimo Palacios. “I love how they turned out.”

Jenny is an amazing young lady, talented, hard working and insightful. She’s part of the “I Have A Dream” Foundation’s Griffin Class.

What do you like about I Have A Dream?

Now that we’re in high school, we have a lot more homework. They give us time to do our homework, and they also help us.

From left, Jacob Rodriguez, Isaac Olarte and Michelle Van Zant (Super Climate Girl), middle school students in the St. Vrain Valley School District, film an infomercial on climate change with help from mentors Aroob Abdelhamid, center, and Jacob Sadow (providing wind) at the UMC building at the University of Colorado Boulder.

For Madeline Nelson, 9, of Firestone, school always has been an academic and social challenge.

“Like kindergarten, first grade, she’d have one friend, and that is it,” said her mother Sara Nelson, 30.

This school year was different for the third-grader.

When Manny Gutierrez thinks about going to college, his thoughts wander to missing his mom’s enchiladas. The 17-year-old Fairview High School senior’s family would only be a few miles away with Gutierrez at the University of Colorado Boulder, but the invisible hurdles of higher academia for low-income families can make the distance seem worlds away.

Boulder Startup Week is looking to expand beyond high tech, and that effort to broaden its scope was showcased in two community events held at the Boulder Theater Tuesday.

One of those events, Community Night, resulted in $20,000 being divvied up among six Boulder-area nonprofits who pitched how they would use the funding to innovate and impact the community.

To illustrate the critical role of our volunteers, let’s put it down in numbers. More than 500 youths from low-income backgrounds walk into our classrooms and community centers nearly every day, greeted warmly by our program directors and AmeriCorps members. However, these kids need additional one-on-one support to succeed in school, college and career, and our volunteers become the vital key to maintaining our individualized long-term support.