COVenture Forward is providing experienced community mentors in order to help small businesses and not-for-profit organizations navigate these challenging times. 

Our mission is to help entrepreneurs and small businesses through the COVID-19 crisis. We’re creating ways to support businesses through mentors, insights from our faculty, and eventually through student support on projects. Armed with quality guidance and education, entrepreneurs can move their business forward and come out the other side stronger as both individuals and members of our collective community. 

If you are interested in being paired with a mentor or are a mentor wanting to help, click the link below to learn more.

Thursday, June 18, 2020, 6-7:30 pm.

Holly Olivarez is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow with a passion for inspiring others to talk about climate change in their daily lives. As a scientist who studies climate change at CU Boulder, Holly will discuss the crucial role of arts and creative communication as effective media that can prompt action.

Join us for this Zoom online workshop and register with the link below.

Tuesday, June 23, 2020, 5:30pm

What do decolonization, art, and philosophy have to do with one another? Better yet, what CAN they have to do with one another? Come to this Zoom event and spend some time creating, collaborating with others, and learning more about decolonization and philosophy!

Join us for this Zoom online workshop and register with the link below.

Tuesday, June 30, 2020, 7:00pm

Climate anxiety getting to you? Don't know how to start considering ecological sustainability in your work? This webinar will provide a forum for recognizing the individual realities of cultural workers – arts makers, administrators, curators, producers, presenters, funders, policy makers, and others – and help to dispel myths, assuage fears, and contextualize how to start thinking about eco-positive change across all aspects of the arts.

Join us for this Zoom online workshop and register with the link below.

Tuesday, July 7, 2020, 7:00pm

Has the climate crisis inspired you to act? Have you started to examine how you can change the way you work and support arts practices to be more sustainable on stage, backstage, front of house; in the studio, the gallery, the museum; in the office, and/or on tour? Regardless of your success, however you may define it, and whatever imperfect steps you might have taken, we want to talk!

Join us for this Zoom online workshop and register with the link below.

Stephanie Coffin

Kathryn Novak

Sandra Davis

Kebrina Josefina de Jesus

The Spark

Amanda Williams

Stafford Hunter

Boulder Environmental Nature Outdoors Film Festival

Sofia Monzerratt

Lois Rentz

Cynthia Barnes

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