We Keep It Local
2011 BKC: Kickball For A Cause - Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence (SPAN)
Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence (SPAN) offers support and services that provide healing, hope and opportunity to adults, youth and children who have been impacted by domestic or dating violence. Services include:
- - Safe, confidential emergency shelter
- - 24 Hour Crisis & Information Hotline
- - Individual & Group Counseling for adults, youth & children
- - Support for LGBTQ survivors
- - Latina Services
- - Abuse In Later Life Program
- - Support for immigrant survivors
- - Legal Advocacy
- - Transitional Services
- - Broomfield Outreach Program
- - Violence Prevention Education
- - Information & Referrals
We became a part of something great ; agents of change in our community.
SPAN is working to challenge beliefs and behaviors that condone violence, and to promote equity and social justice. You can help, just like we did!
- Donate!
- Volunteer!
2010 BKC: Kickball Without Borders - Engineers Without Borders
The story is simple and inspiring. It was 2000, in a Boulder, Colorado backyard. Two men, Angel Tzec, a landscaper and representative of the Belize Ministry of Agriculture and Bernard Amadei, a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder met by chance and a friendship born. Small talk led to big change. Tzec invited his new friend, Dr. Amadei to visit his village in San Pablo, Belize, which was desperately in need of clean water.
The community had no electricity, running water or sanitation. Dr. Amadei was stunned to see little children carrying water all day long from a nearby river. "I knew that, as a civil engineer, there had to be something I could do."
Amadei later brought eight University of Colorado-Boulder students, along with Denis Walsh, a civil engineering expert from Boulder, Colorado, with him to San Pablo. Working together with the local community, his team effectively installed a new water treatment system, which produces clean drinking water by harnessing the power of a local waterfall. Simple, sustainable, and low-cost, the entire project was completed for $14,000.
This success led to the nationwide phenomenon known as Engineers Without Borders, USA. As has become their standard, volunteer university students from around the country attempt to use locally available resources to complete low-cost, high-impact civil engineering projects in other developing countries.
Since its incorporation in 2002, EWB-USA has grown from approximately eight engineering students and a civil engineering professor to an organization of over 12,000 students, faculty and professionals. Today, EWB-USA's membership continues to grow, limited only by the organization's infrastructure and ability to ensure the quality and sustainability of the community programs.
