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Our 2014-15 Annual Report is Here!
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Two Days = Two Great Ways to Give
Be a Giving Hero to our Dreamers!
First Giving Day - Dec 1st
First on December 1st is #GivingTuesday, a day when people all over the world are taking time to give back and our Dreamers would like you
to be our Giving Hero!
For 24 hours starting at 12:01 a.m. on December 1st
the 1:1 Fund and a corporate donor will
triple all College Savings Account gifts up to $500 per donor.
This means that
if you donate $500
on December 1st, then
"I Have a Dream" will receive $1500 for College Savings Accounts.
All funds raised will help open College Savings Accounts for
Dreamers to use for books and room and board to set them on the path to and through college.
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Your gift will send a strong message to our Dreamers - that they can achieve their dreams, and that their futures are worth investing in.
Click here
to have your gift tripled!
*Please note that donations made via this campaign cannot be applied to Dreamer sponsorships or previous pledges.
Second Giving Day - Dec 8th
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Another great opportunity to support "I Have a Dream" is on December 8th. An
anonymous donor will MATCH donations on Colorado Gives Day, December 8th. Gifts can be pre-scheduled by
clicking here. The Colorado Gives Day donations are unrestricted meaning that they can be applied towards
Dreamer Sponsorships,
programming and
scholarships versus Giving Tuesday donations which can only be applied towards College Savings Accounts. Thanks for your support!
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Village at the Peaks
Tree Lighting Ceremony
 On Saturday, December 5th, join us at Village of the Peaks for its first-ever
Tree Lighting Ceremony from 2 p.m.- 5 p.m., with an afternoon full of action-packed festivities.
Santa will come rushing in on Sports Authority skis to ask the children what they want for Christmas.
There will be horse-drawn carriage rides, face painters, interactive ice games, dueling ice-carving demonstrations, a 16-foot Fire and Ice Tower, and a walk-able 12,000 pound ice sculpture in the heart of the village.
There will also be two ways to get entered into a drawing for the sold out first showing of Star Wars: The Force Awakens at 7 p.m. on December 17th. Your first chance to win is by casting your vote on the Village of the Peaks Facebook page for a Frosty Ice Village or a Wilderness Winter Village. Your second chance to win is by pre-registering here and bringing a gift for our Dreamers. "I Have a Dream's" wish list includes:
- Youth hats, mittens, and socks
- Books for 3rd through 12th grade readers
- Movie tickets
- USB memory sticks
- Scientific calculators
- Dry erase markers
- Soccer and tennis equipment
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Boulder County Dreamers Meet a Dreamer from Oregon on Field Trip
On a five-day field
trip
to the San Luis Valley with their American History class, eight Boulder County Dreamers met an AmeriCorps member who used to be a Dreamer!
While our Dreamers were serving at the local homeless shelter in Alamosa, a young AmeriCorps member came running up to the "I Have a Dream" bus because he was a Dreamer in Oregon! He told the Dreamers about how much the organization means to him and how special it was to him that the adults from the program stuck by them every single year. He recently graduated from Oregon State University (which happens to be where one of our Dreamers wants to go) and is now serving as an AmeriCorps member in Alamosa.
It was a really special moment for the kids to meet a fellow Dreamer and realize how far-reaching the organization truly is. Guillermo, the Oregon Dreamer, is on the far left.
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As an award-winning entrepreneur and business leader, Rory Vaden co-founded Southwestern Consulting, a multi-million dollar global consulting practice that helps clients in more than 14 countries. He is also the founder of the Center for the Study of Self-Discipline and author of two New York Times bestselling books: Procrastinate on Purpose and Take the Stairs. Through the Huffington Post, The Tennessean, and the nationally syndicated Rory Vaden Show, his message and inspiration reaches more than four million people each month.
Rory graduated from Centaurus High School in 2000. In 2006, he graduated magna cum laude from the University of Denver with a bachelor's degree in management and an MBA.
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Upcoming Events
December 1
December 8*
4:00-5:30 pm
Griffin Class
Angevine Middle School
(Lafayette)
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When you use Amazon Smile you can have a portion of your shopping total go to
"I Have a Dream" Foundation of Boulder County.
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$500 in a College Savings Account
means a low-income student is
4 times more likely to graduate from college.
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Longmont has it's movie theater open again! The larger 12-screen United Artist theater now has reclining seats, RPX design and technology, and an extended snack menu.
As part of Regal's pre-opening they reduced tickets and snack bar items to $3.00 each. Proceeds were dedicated to several different local non-profits for the few days prior to the official opening. A special thank you to Regal Entertainment Group for dedicating 100% of their proceeds on Tuesday, November 10, 2015 to "I Have a Dream."
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About the "I Have a Dream" Foundation of Boulder County
Since 1990, the award-winning "I Have a Dream" Foundation of Boulder County has assisted 780 children from low-income areas in achieving their education and career goals by providing long-term personal and academic support, tutoring, mentoring and four-year tuition-assistance scholarships to each graduating student. The organization sponsors entire groups of students from elementary schools or from low-income housing sites and works with these children and their families from elementary school through high school graduation and then "to and through" college. Currently, there are seven active "I Have a Dream" classes in Boulder County, with three classes in Boulder, two in Longmont and two in Lafayette. The "I Have a Dream" Foundation of Boulder County has doubled expected graduation rates for its graduating classes of students and has awarded $2 million in scholarships. The program follows the national model established in New York in 1981 by founder Eugene Lang.
"I Have a Dream" Foundation of Boulder County |
5390 Manhattan Circle #200 | Boulder | Colorado | 80303
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