Organization and Bio's
Organizationally, BCA is a subset of the Boulder Community Foundation (BCF), a duly qualified 501(C)(3) charitable and educational community support organization. BCF’s primary function is to set the larger goals and policies, accept tax deductible donations and to seek (or assist in writing) grants for the benefit of its various partners. The BCF Mission Statement can be found below.
We have another branch of BCF— the wholly funded Escalante River Basin Initiatives (ERBI), which focuses on regional issues such as ATV trail designation and enforcement, beaver reintroduction into the watershed, and anything having to do with the long-term sustainability of the Escalante River Basin. For more information about ERBI, please contact Tim Clarke, Executive Director, tim@bouldercommunityalliance.org.
Boulder Community Foundation is governed by
a 5 person Board of Directors. The Alliance (BCA) responds to the input and activism of a 15 community member Advisory Council.
(See photos and captions below.) For more information about BCA, please contact our Coordinator, Margaret (Peg) Smith, at peg@bouldercommunityalliance.org.
BOULDER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of the Boulder Community Foundation shall be to promote community stewardship programs through education, fund raising, partnerships with other governmental and non-governmental organizations, and sponsorships in the areas of:
(i) rural and cultural heritage including ranch and farm preservation, green fields initiatives, open space protection, water utilization and conservation, and other ecological values;
(ii) economic development including commercial and recreational growth consistent with the values and purposes of community stewardship expressed herein;
(iii) community works and facilities including infrastructure enhancement, grant writing and other funding activities, and land use planning to further the purposes herein;
(iv) the arts, crafts and music through organization, encouragement and support of each; and
(v) any other educational and charitable activities lending themselves to community stewardship initiatives in the greater Boulder, Utah community and throughout the greater Escalante River Basin within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue Law).
Boulder Community Foundation – Board of Directors
Tim Clarke, a British landscape architect, has lived in Boulder since 1997. He divides his time between his landscape design and working as Executive Director of BCF. Interests include backcountry hiking, music, Irish dancing, stone-walling, and community projects.
Sue Fearon, Board Vice President, came to southern Utah in 1985 with a B.S. from the College of Public Programs at Arizona State University. She currently works as office manager for the Escalante Canyon Outfitters, a company she and her husband, Grant Johnson, founded in 1991. Sue, Grant and their daughter, Claire, live in the exurbs of Boulder.
Tom Hoyt has been a builder in Boulder, Colorado for several decades. He and his partner, wife Caroline, have won multiple awards for green innovations and neighborhood design. They own land in Boulder, Utah and actively pursue conservation easements to preserve habitat and view-sheds.
Curtis Oberhansly, coming from Salt Lake City, has been in Boulder part-time since 1996, full time since 2002. As the President and principal founder of this nonprofit, he explains, “My wife, Dianne, and I love the views, the quiet, the dark skies . . . we are inspired by this place and hope to be a positive presence in our community.”
Margaret (Peg) Smith, the Coordinator of BCA Partners, says, “How was I to know that a journalism degree, Communication Master’s, and 25 years as a corporate technical writer were but precursors to my true fulfillment: editing the Sage Page?”
Boulder Community Alliance – Advisory Council
Scott Brodie moved to Boulder with wife Brynn and new daughter Larkin in 1999 to escape the nine months of Idaho winters. He is most interested in working to make Boulder more self-sufficient.
Todd Campbell is an active member of the Stone Foundation, a world wide nonprofit promoting the art and craft of stonework. His magic with stone is well known in Boulder and beyond. He has always felt that "a Boulder Alliance would bring Community".
Bobbie Cleeve (and husband Boz) have retired to Boulder after 30 years in Logan, Utah as winter teachers and summer forest service wilderness rangers. They bring a love of beekeeping and walking in wild places.
Judi Davis from Provo, Utah came to Boulder in 1970 with archeologist husband to have and raise family. “Shy girl ended up in the middle of Town business and loving it.” (Judi is and has been the Town Clerk for decades.)
Walt Gove and his wife Nina moved to Boulder 6 years ago from Nashville Tennessee where they had taught at Vanderbilt University for 35 years. When they moved they knew the environment was special, and they discovered that the community was like no other.
Tom Jerome, via New Jersey, Tennessee, Kentucky, Colorado, Oregon, KY (again) and CO (again), found Boulder in 1996 and is now a permanent resident with wife, Lauren, since 2005. He feels, "If you want to live in a great community you have to be part of making it so."
Dianne Nelson Oberhansly is a writer (A Brief History of Male Nudes in America won the Flannery O'Connor Prize) and teacher with an MFA in Creative Writing. Living here part-time since 1996, she moved to Boulder with her husband in 2002. Her passions are food, wine and words, not necessarily in that order.
Mike Nelson moved from Northern Utah (his family settled Huntsville in the 1870's). He has lived in Boulder since 2000, primarily managing the Anasazi Museum, enjoying raising children and horses, and a feels the quality of life here can't be beat.
Denise Pennington, having lived on the east coast and parts of the west, came to Boulder to pursue her love of gardening and the outdoors. She is hopeful that Boulder can retain its rural character and heritage.
Cookie Schaus, having left the then-small-and-remote town of Juneau, Alaska at age 16, swearing never again to live in a small, remote town, Cookie finds herself in Boulder at age 61, loving the people, the land, her horses and new house—certain that she has closed a circle.
Eric Scott grew up in Southern Nevada. Loving big open spaces, he discovered Boulder on a camping trip in the fall of 2004 and hasn't looked back since. He is most interested in community and sustainable living.