GUB 2021-2022 Impact Report
Check out Growing Up Boulder's 2021-2022 Impact Report today!
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Growing Up Boulder's 2021-2022 Impact Report is out now! Check out our annual Impact Report for insight into our projects and achievements over the past year. Thanks for a great year, Boulder community!
Growing Up Boulder Team 2022
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Fall 2022 Project: Nature Connection, Hope, and Action
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GUB will work with numerous partners to operationalize (put into action) the concepts that GUB Co-Founder, Professor Emerita Louise Chawla, articulated in her article about nature connection, hope, and action. In collaboration with the City of Boulder’s Open Space and Mountain Parks Department, Classrooms for Climate Action, and Boulder Valley School Districts’s Columbine Elementary, GUB will build upon the successful integration of curriculum, outdoor learning and youth leadership & action (service learning + stewardship activities) learned from the 2021 Wood Brothers Project. Students will then have the opportunity to share their recommendations, either via the Right Here Right Now Global Climate Summit at CU on December 1-4, 2022 or by connecting in alternate ways with decision-makers.
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 Photo from OSMP Heatherwood Project
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Latest Podcast with ICMA
Check out ICMA's podcast - Voice in Local Government - where Growing Up Boulder's Executive Director, Mara Mintzer, discusses how kids can design better cities.
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In ICMA's latest episode of Voices in Local Government, Mara Mintzer, Executive Director of Growing Up Boulder, and Sarah Huntley, Director of Communication and Engagement, City of Boulder Colorado share why and how integrating ideas from kids into local government design can develop engaged citizens and better communities for all. With examples from transportation planning to an organized response to a mass-shooting, Mara and Sarah show just how successful, equitable, and sustainable it is to include youth voices in decisions that effect their lives. To read the corresponding blog post and catch the bonus clip, click here.
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Child-Friendly City Map: Out Now!
A printed, bilingual city map of child-friendly spaces in Boulder, Colorado co-created by children and families.
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In 2019, Growing Up Boulder embarked upon a year-long process to co-create the nation's first, printed, bilingual, child-friendly city map. We did so with almost 800 children and families, half of whom were from underrepresented populations. In May, Growing Up Boulder in partnership with the Colorado Visitor Bureau will release the fourth edition of the child-friendly city map. Today, more than 30,000 child-friendly city maps will been printed and shared throughout the Boulder community as well as advertised statewide through the Colorado Parent Magazine.
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A Healing Day of Remembrance: A Success
An all-ages event created by youth to honor our community’s losses and recovery from the Table Mesa (King Soopers) tragedy last March 2021
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On Saturday, April 2nd, Growing Up Boulder hosted a youth-led “healing” event to mark one year since the March 2021 Table Mesa tragedy at King Soopers (#boulderstrong). Organized by Boulder’s Youth Leadership Healing Committee (YLHC), the event offered opportunities for community members of all ages (including children) to heal from this tragedy through art, writing and community connection. Thank you to all the community members who attended to make this day so special! To learn more, check out the articles below:
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Our MissionGrowing Up Boulder's mission is to offer young people opportunities to participate, deliberate, and influence local issues that affect their lives.
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Growing Up Boulder’s expertise and impact on child participation in urban planning continues
to inspire UNICEF USA. We are grateful to have their partnership in building a movement to
re-imagine cities fit for children and fit for all.”
- Danielle Goldberg,
Director of Advocacy and Engagement, Child-Friendly City Initiative (CFCI) Lead UNICEF USA
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.
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