Co-founders Ann Goldman and Leslie Allen chat with host Nikki Kayser about the upcoming workshop at Front Range Source. Why can it seem so difficult yet be so rewarding to ask for the big donation when meeting face to face? They give tips on securing the meeting, listening to the patron’s desires and values, and waiting for the thoughtful answer. The workshop series is designed for staff, executive directors and board members. It is all part of their efforts to connect and support the local non-profit community.

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Robert Austin of Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Clinic chats with KGNU’s Maeve Conran about their mission to help overcome blindness through transplantation and research. Organ and tissue donors in Colorado and Wyoming  provide nearly 2,000 sight-restorative transplants each year.

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Attention Homes is committed to the youth of this community, to changing lives, and to reuniting families in difficult times. Thier community-based programs offer teens street outreach, day drop-in services, shelter and residential care. These services provide teens psychosocial development through behavioral change. The goal is to help our at-risk residents become healthy productive members of our community. In thier 45-year history, they have provided treatment and safety to approximately 6,000 adolescents, ages 12 to 18.  Attention Homes is excited to open its new Runaway & Homeless Youth  program created to help the estimated 150-250 kids living on the streets of Boulder and Broomfield Counties transition to long-term housing and/or family reunification.  This program includes street outreach, day drop-in and overnight shelter services. Host Rachel Sapin gets the details.

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As a human rights organization committed to ending violence against women,youth and children through support, advocacy,education and community organizing, Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence is hosting a workshop to discuss and share ideas, issues, initiatives with other community members, students, and teachers interested in addressing intersections of race, class, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender, ethnicity, social systems, systems of oppression, and diverse cultures. Discussion will include the ways the “isms” are inter-related. Alec Harris chats with Nancy Chavez-Porter,Training and Community Education Director about the workshop and their mission.

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Adam Sutton is a Marine veteran with  Veterans Helping Veterans Now.  He chats with host Nikki Kayser about the value in one vet listening to the concerns and challenges of another vet. Re-entry into civilian life can be lonely at best. Increasingly, more service people return with brain trauma disorders that only another vet can understand as they look for housing, a job, and a social life. Hungry for Change is an annual project with local restaurants to give a portion of their proceeds to veterans’ services on Veteran’s Day.

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It is estimated that Boulder and Broomfield Counties have over 50,000 residents living in poverty, and hunger is a real part of their lives, every day….that’s enough people to fill up Folsom Field. Community Food Share is dedicated to improving lives by turning your small acts of generosity and kindness into a big difference in the lives of hungry families and children in your community. James Baldwin chat with Stephanie Gates about the increased need this year.

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Bessie’s Hope , formerly known as Rainbow Bridge, enhances the quality of life for nursing home/assisted living elders and brings generations together in mutually rewarding relationships by honoring the human spirit and providing life-enriching volunteer opportunities for youths, families, individuals, community organizations and businesses. Linda Holoway, co-director, chats with Host Nikki Kayser about how a family, pre-school or high-risk youth can adopt an elder to visit. Almost 3,000 facilities are visited each year in the Boulder/Denver area with 2,200 youth involved.

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Project Angel Heart delivers nutritious meals to improve quality of life at no cost for those coping with terminal illnesses in the Greater Denver and Colorado Springs area for over 800 clients each week. Host Nikki Kayser gets the details from Dov Hirsh.

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Blind Cafes are springs up in the dark on both coasts. The idea for the Boulder Blind Cafe came to Rosh, Brian Rocheleau, while visiting Iceland. He and his band, One Eye Glass Broken, will entertain guests as they dine in the dark and hear from blind waiter Gerry Leari as he describes his world without sight. It is a chance for seeing people to get a different perspective and indulge other senses together in the dark. It gives the blind community a chance to get together. Everyone raises money for  Boulder Guide Dog Puppy Raisers, a group of volunteers who raise and train guide dogs for a year.

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