Our Mission
Growing Up Boulder's mission is centering young people's rights, voices, and agency to advance equitable and sustainable communities for all.
Our Vision
Growing Up Boulder's vision is to cultivate vibrant communities where all young people thrive.
Recent Projects and News
Child Friendly Map SponsorshipThank you to all of our 2024 Child Friendly City Map sponsors! Check out these businesses on our CFC Map page.
To learn more about our 2025 Map Sponsorship, visit our sponsorship page or email [email protected] |
Volunteer OpportunitiesGrowing Up Boulder has several volunteer opportunities available. Please contact us at "info @ growingupboulder.org" if you are interested is volunteering your skills in:
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Park at Violet AvenueGrowing Up Boulder (GUB) is partnering with the City of Boulder Parks and Recreation Department and members of the community to offer input to the design of the park on Violet Avanue. To this end, this spring, GUB is holding a series of picnics with preschool children, families and teachers from New Horizons Cooperative Preschool and Boulder Journey School to learn about the community's vision of nature play at the park.
GUB facilitated two community engagement sessions in fall 2023 aimed at understanding the wishes of the Boulder Meadows Manufactured Home Community’s children, youth, and caregivers regarding the future development of the park at Violet. The two events included a Neighborhood Gathering of Family, Friends, and Neighbors (FFNs) of young children and a What’s Up Boulder (WUB) event at Violet Park. Read our report, below, to learn more. ![]()
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Boulder's Child Friendly City InitiativeBoulder is working towards recognition as a UNICEF Child Friendly City Initiative. We recently completed "Community Conversations," with more than 900 children, teens, parents, and service providers. We have also been compiling government data about young people's well-being in Boulder. Our youth and their adults allies will share back this data with the community over the summer and fall, then we will work together to develop a Youth Action Plan. Stay tuned to hear what we learned!
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Iris Avenue Core Arterial Network (CAN) Transportation and Mobility ProjectIn May, 2023, Growing Up Boulder (GUB) began collaborating with City of Boulder Transportation staff to learn about the goals and engagement plans for the first phase of the Iris Avenue CAN Project. In September, GUB staff partnered with two Boulder Housing Partners’ home communities: the Iris Hawthorn Home Community and the Glen Willow Home Community. The transportation department will take the findings from these engagements efforts and they will then inform phase 2 of the project. The central theme of the feedback from youth and caregivers was safety.
Stay tuned in spring 2024 as we hear from young people and their caregivers about their experiences traveling on 30th Street near Valmont Ave. |
Placemaking Pioneers
In 2019, Growing Up Boulder embarked upon a year-long process to co-create the
nation's first, printed, bilingual, child-friendly city map.
nation's first, printed, bilingual, child-friendly city map.