About

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Boulder Community Foundation, doing business as Boulder Community Alliance (BCA), is a duly registered, 501(C)(3), charitable and educational community support organization.  As Boulder’s largest nonprofit organization, we facilitate and support a variety of community and landscape projects.

Our mission statement:

Boulder Community Alliance actively champions the unique and vibrant community of Boulder and its spectacular, fragile landscape.

BCA is run by a volunteer board of directors and volunteer committee members. Our organization is financed by generous individual donors and grants from organizations. If you have further questions about BCA and its role in the community, check out our most Frequently Asked Questions.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Josh Ellis, President

In 2008 Josh rode his bicycle into Boulder Town…

…and never left.

Now he lives in a Boulder full-time with his
wife, Jill, and their two daughters, Leona and
Violet. Josh runs a successful online consulting
business and has a small farming operation.

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Pam Furches, Secretary

Pennsylvania native Pam Furches is a freelance graphic designer. While she works for clients nationwide, she can often be found in her studio in Boulder producing design or branding materials for local businesses.

Pam serves as Secretary for the Boulder Town Tree City Committee and volunteers for the Boulder Skills Foundation. She and Constance Lynn co-founded the Boulder Seed Collective, which seeks to preserve and distribute heirloom seed varieties. Pam also works as a master gardener, certified permaculture designer, outdoor survival instructor, and weaver. She holds a BFA in graphic design from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia.

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Ron Johnson, Board Member

Ron Johnson has been a Co-Manager/Owner of the Boulder Mountain Guest Ranch since 2007 along with his wife, Brandie Hardman-Johnson, and lifelong friend and business partner, Patrick Hogle. Ron is a Co-Manager/Owner of Global Aquafeeds, which is a Co-Owner/Founder of the Great Salt Lake Brine Shrimp Cooperative of which Ron is also a Board Member. Ron is a Co-President/Owner of The Salt Lake Garfield Western Railway Company and a Co-Manager/Owner of Headwaters Cattle and Guest Ranch f.k.a. The Thompson Ranch in Boulder Utah. Ron is also a Certified Permaculture Designer. Ron sits on other boards and is either an officer, director, manager, member or shareholder of entities ranging in the sectors of arts, education, health care, social media and land and cultural preservation and restoration, where emphasis is placed on environmental, financial and social responsibility, smart production and consumption of energy, food and medicine and on healthy and sustainable community development.