Thanksgiving is a day to show gratitude. Several nonprofits of Longmont wished to share their thanks for the community support they have been given throughout the year.
HOPE
Dear Longmont Community,
HOPE, Homeless Outreach Providing Encouragement, wishes our generous community of Longmont a Happy Thanksgiving. With your assistance, we have helped to provide 62 positive housing outcomes to individuals experiencing homelessness. The city of Longmont provides shelter funding, the Longmont Community Foundation pays deposit costs for newly housed folks, the LPD helps our unhoused on the streets, Journey Church provides sheltering space, volunteers bring meals, and community members and churches donate clothing, food and money so that we can offer needed items at our Outreach Center at 804 S. Lincoln Street.
With your help Longmont, everyone will have a place to call home,
Alice Sueltenfuss, Executive Director
Annie and Millie's Place
On behalf of the people and pets experiencing homelessness whom we get to serve, thank you to our Longmont and Boulder County community. All of our work is done in partnership with organizations and businesses in this community. Additionally, we are supported by individual volunteers, donors and community grants. This "coming together" of all the various entities is truly what makes our work possible. We are thankful to be part of such a wonderful, generous and thriving community.
In togetherness,
Kristen Baltrum, Founder/Exec Dir of Annie and Millie's Place
Longmont Museum
As we reflect on another remarkable year at the Longmont Museum, we are filled with immense gratitude for the vibrant and supportive community that surrounds us. From attending our exhibitions and events to supporting our capital campaign for expansion, your active engagement has made a profound impact. The Longmont Museum is not just a space for artifacts; it is a community hub where stories come to life and connections are forged. Thank you for being the driving force that allows us to thrive as a vital cultural institution for Northern Colorado.
Erik Mason & the Longmont Museum
TLC Learning Center
TLC Learning Center has much to be grateful for after serving our wonderful community for nearly 68 years. Since its creation in 1956, TLC Learning Center has been led by families and community members who want to give every child the best possible chance to succeed in life. Early intervention for young children has been the cornerstone of TLC Learning Center and even today, the Longmont and surrounding area has continued to support the wonderful opportunities of learning through play and teaching every child that they are special and loved.
Thank you to those families who came together all those years ago to create a better life for their children with special needs. It is their vision that keeps us moving forward in an effort to ensure that all kids have the resources they need to be successful in school and in life. Thanks to the City of Longmont and Boulder County for partnering with TLC for many years to ensure early childhood services are provided to our youngest residents. Thank you to the countless supporters who donate their time and resources to help us provide scholarship dollars so that all kids can access the therapeutic early learning services they need for the best possible start in life. And most importantly, thank you to the thousands of families who have entrusted their little ones to the care of TLC teachers and therapists over the last six decades. It is our great privilege to be a part of each family’s journey and we look forward to seeing what the next 68 years will bring.
With gratitude,
Matt Eldred, TLC Learning Center Executive Director
Crossroads School
Crossroads School is grateful to the Longmont community for partnering with us to support students from hard places finding their way to a diploma and a positive future! Because of you, 37 students have earned their diplomas, 4 more hope to graduate this year, and still others are on their way. Thank you!
Barb Bulthuis, Executive Director of Crossroads School
Veterans Community Project
At Veterans Community Project we say community is our middle name for a reason. We could not do any of the work we do without our community at the center. Bringing VCP to Longmont in 2019, constructing a village that this year housed our first group of residents, and developing highly effective programming here that has impacted more than 350 Veterans and helped to permanently house 87 since 2020, has been no small feat. None of it would have happened without a lot of planning and community intentionality. VCP is proud to be a part of this community! We are grateful every day of the year, but as we reflect on gratitude this holiday season, we are honored and humbled by your continued commitment to serve those who served us. Thank you!
Jennifer Seybold, executive director
Longmont Public Media
Longmont Public Media extends heartfelt gratitude to our incredible community and dedicated volunteers who continually champion our mission. Your unwavering support empowers us to thrive as a vibrant content incubator, a beacon for creativity, and a hub for media enthusiasts. Your contributions fuel our endeavors, enabling us to serve as a vital community media center, offering equipment rentals, invaluable training, and diverse content distribution. Your commitment not only strengthens us but also amplifies the voices and stories within our community. Together, we forge pathways for innovation, education, and collaboration. Thank you for your invaluable support in shaping Longmont Public Media into a space where creativity flourishes and connections thrive.
Sergio Angles, executive director
Longmont Meals on Wheels
In the year that Longmont Meals on Wheels served its 3,000,000th meal, we are reminded that we could not have served older adults and people with disabilities in our community without the support of you all. We rely on local foundations and local government grants, but most significantly, we rely on donations from individuals. Thank you for standing by us as we ensure no older adult or person with a disability goes hungry in Longmont, Niwot, Hygiene or Lyons. Happy Thanksgiving from the staff and participants at Longmont Meals on Wheels!
Katie West, development and communications director
OUR Center
As we near the end of another year, we reflect on the many blessings bestowed on us by our community: our thousands of donors who allow us to do the work we do to help families before more self-reliant, our hundreds of volunteers who give of their heart and hands every day to help our neighbors, our partners who join with us in making sure our participants feel heard and valued and receive critical services, and finally, our participants who display remarkable courage, resilience, and gratitude, and remind us every day why we are here. Our tremendous thanks to all of you from all of us at OUR Center!
Elaine Klotz, Development Director
Safe Shelter of St. Vrain Valley
The support we receive from our Longmont/Boulder County community gives a strong foundation to Safe Shelter of St. Vrain Valley. We are grateful to the local donors who underwrite our 24/7, bilingual crisis responses like shelter, counseling, legal help and follow-up support for families and their pets.
We give thanks to those who fund our services. Generous donors make it possible for victims of domestic abuse to move from living in danger to living free of harm and fear.
The Reentry Intiative
From the bottom of our hearts, we at The Reentry Initiative have so much gratitude for our Longmont Community - thank you!
Thank you for supporting second chances day in and day out. Because of you, we were able to dig deeper into our mission than ever before. This year we embarked on two ventures that have created an immense impact in Longmont. In both, community has been a key pillar.
One, by partnering with probation, we have been diverting more individuals from the prison system prior to incarceration. Addressing mental and behavioral health is necessary to their long-term, restored success in the community. The key has been creating a sense of community that sees and values each individual member.
And two, we expanded our therapeutic services to be whole-person-centered and community-based. By providing out-of-the-box, prosocial methods to address recovery, our members have sustained behavioral change. They are not just surviving crime-free, but thriving within our Longmont community.
In 2024 We look forward to supporting more of our community’s most vulnerable members to strengthen the social fabric of the community. We thank you for being a part of the team!
Emily Kleeman, Executive Director of The Reentry Initiative
Longmont Community Justice Partnership
Next year, Longmont Community Justice Partnership reaches a remarkable 30-year Anniversary! As we approach this significant milestone, we want to extend a deeply personal and heartfelt thank you to each individual who has supported our work and mission. Whether through financial support, or the generous investment of their time and wisdom, it's your commitment, and belief in the power of restoration that has shaped the soul of our organization. Together, our community has created something truly special, and for that, our gratitude knows no bounds! Thank you!
Longmont Community Justice Partnership
El Comité de Longmont
The Board and staff of El Comité de Longmont would like to express our deepest gratitude to the Longmont community for their unwavering support of our agency throughout our 43 years of service. Our work is guided by our primary goals of increasing self-sufficiency, improving educational opportunities, and being a community bridge-builder for the Latino, immigrant, and non-Latino members of the community. Promoting our mission to your family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues, volunteering your time and effort, and donating to our organization are just some of the ways you, as Longmont community members, have consistently benefited El Comité and our clients. Without you, we would not have been able to continue providing our vital services to this community for so long. You invigorate our goals and empower us to improve the lives of our clients and Longmont as a whole. To our clients, thank you for trusting us to serve you and your families. You inspire our mission and sustain our passion for this work. We wish everyone a happy and healthy holiday season!
El Comité de Longmont
ACL
The ACL is a disability and human rights advocacy organization. Advocacy can be difficult to define since it is nimble to each person's needs. Advocacy is helping the person learn about systems & services, speak up for themselves, feel safe to make informed decisions, and then ensures the systems in place are listening and responding. Our mission is to promote and protect the rights of people with intellectual developmental disabilities (IDD) to be included as a natural and integral part of community life.
While we have served the Longmont community since 1974, we would like to thank Longmont and our neighbors at MeCo Coffee Collective for the warm welcome we have received since moving into our new office headquarters at 624 Coffman Street this year. Longmont has the largest community of people with IDD in Boulder County, and we are proud to be a part of it.
We would like to express our gratitude specifically to the Longmont Community Foundation for the St. Vrain Independent Living Fund and the Longmont Symphony for their sensory-friendly production of the Gentle Nutcracker. In recent years, we have also worked in partnership with the Longmont Department of Public Safety’s Crisis Outreach Response and Engagement (CORE) Team. This team is comprised of a specially trained police officer, a behavioral health clinician, and a paramedic. We are grateful for their thoughtful and humanizing responses to people with IDD who are experiencing crises.
This holiday season, Colorado Gives Day is Tuesday, December 5th and we hope our community will join us in this effort to build a more just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive community for all. Help us deliver advocacy to those experiencing barriers by donating to the Association for Community Living (ACL) on COGives Day 2023! We are looking forward to working together with the Longmont community to increase the inclusion, visibility, and participation of people with IDD.
ACL team
Longmont Food Rescue
Longmont Food Rescue (LFR) sends out our deepest thanks and gratitude to our incredible team of volunteers, who have given over 700 hours this year to ensure that our locally-produced bounty of nutritious food reaches our neighbors facing hunger and food insecurity. LFR has been a volunteer-driven organization since our founding in 2017, and we wouldn't be able to rescue 70,000+ lbs of food this year without the passion and dedication of our volunteers.
We are also so grateful for our local growers and food donors through Longmont Farmers Market, Community Table Farm, Whole Foods, Sprouts, 7-Eleven stores, and The J.M. Smuckers Co., as well as community partners like UpRoot Colorado, the Westview Round Pantry, the OUR Center, Community Food Share, HOPE for Longmont, Agape Safe Haven, Longmont United Hospital, and the Heart of Longmont, for helping us feed our community. Thank you!
And huge thanks to our donors and grant givers, Longmont Community Foundation, Left Hand Giving Circle, Longmont Professional Women for Good, Premier Members Credit Union, Community Foundation Boulder County, AEC Trust, and Colorado Blueprint to End Hunger, for funding our mission and enabling us to expand our programs this year!
Longmont Food Rescue
