2024 Nonprofit Wishlist

We are excited to announce our 2024 Nonprofit Wishlist! As part of our mission to spread the good in Weld County, the Foundation recently surveyed nonprofits about their needs. Each nonprofit provided ideas of what they would do with a small, medium, and large-scale gift. The results are now compiled into a central catalogue which […]

Celebrating Scholarships at the Foundation

The Weld Community Foundation awarded more than 160 scholarships totaling $585,310 to local students at its annual Scholarship Reception. It was the 20th year that the event was sponsored by FNBO.  Since 1997, more than $6 million has been awarded in scholarships thanks to the generosity of donors to Weld County students. If you’d like […]

Get to know the Windsor Community Foundation

This year, the Weld Community Foundation is working to strengthen our ties with our affiliate funds in Windsor and Fort Lupton. Part of this work includes highlighting the good these organizations do in their corners of Weld County. Take a moment to read about the work of the Windsor Community Foundation: Established in 2001, the […]

Introducing Our New Program Officer

The Weld Community Foundation is welcoming Megan Martinez to the team! Megan is stepping into Lauren Weber’s past program officer position (following Weber’s promotion to chief operations officer). We are so glad to welcome her to the team! Here is an intro from Megan: Hello! My name is Megan Martinez, and I am thrilled to […]

StG 2022

Twenty-five years is quite a milestone. Would you join us in celebrating?  Truly, the scope of this journey is large, so it’s hard to get a grip on it. How do you celebrate two and a half decades of generosity? There have been inspiring donors, strengthened nonprofits, college degrees attained, people uplifted in times of […]

Thank You for an Incredible 2021 Luncheon!

For our annual Spread the Good Luncheon, the Weld Community Foundation featured the new book, “Weld County: 4,000 Square Miles of Grandeur, Greatness & Yesterdays”. The book, by John Fielder, was commissioned in honor of the Foundation’s 25th anniversary coming up next year and has released this past September.  On Tuesday, people gathered and enjoyed […]

2021 Scholarship Reception Video

For those of us involved with the scholarship process, the Foundation’s annual reception is something we look forward to. We enjoy it because it gathers the donors who make these scholarships possible and the very bright students who have worked so hard to earn them.  While we weren’t able to host the event in its […]

Weld Found Podcast Season 4 Begins

Weld Found is a podcast about belonging in an age of social isolation and disconnection. What does it look like for us here in Weld County to recover this lost art of community? Season 4 begins with a tale of two houses, as host Tim Coons notices something very interesting about his neighbors.  Then we get […]

Pre-Purchase for “Weld County” Now Available

Order at John Fielder’s Website A new “coffee table book” about Weld County is being released in September by Colorado’s renowned nature photographer John Fielder. The project was commissioned by the Weld Community Foundation as a gift to the community in celebration of the Foundation’s upcoming 25th anniversary.   Weld County: 4,000 Square Miles of Grandeur, Greatness & […]