Summary
Organization name
Boulder Watershed Collective
2015
Tax id (EIN)
84-2674914
Category
Environment
Organization Size
Large Organization
Address
1740 FOURMILE CANYON DRBOULDER, CO 80302
Boulder County, CO, US
Gilpin County, CO, US
Boulder Watershed Collective
A nonprofit organization
$7,510 raised by 64 donors
75% complete
$10,000 Goal
Adaption. Commitment. Progress.
As we look back on 2025, we’re struck by how much the Boulder Watershed Collective accomplished in a year full of resilience-testing challenges — accomplishments made possible by a team whose deep commitment strengthened our stewardship, our relationships, and the way we show up for this watershed and its communities.
As environmental challenges shift from isolated impacts to interconnected, climate-driven, landscape-scale pressures, we’re adapting by intentionally weaving together our core focus areas, our land-based project areas, the strengths of our collaborators, and the initiatives of local residents to deliver holistic, community-centered, resilience-building solutions. Together we’ve deepened our impact in forest health and wildfire mitigation, healthy riverscapes and wet meadows, community preparedness and engagement, and climate-adaptive project planning. This evolution mirrors the changing needs of the landscape and the people who call it home — and we’re grateful to be meeting this moment with together.
With what feels like just a few fleeting moments left in the year, Colorado Gives Day gives us an opportunity to celebrate this momentum and invest in what comes next.
Your support today helps us:
• Strengthen community-led stewardship and climate adaptation initiatives
• Advance collaborative wildfire and watershed resilience projects
• Bring education, coordination, and technical assistance to priority communities
• Build the organizational capacity needed for long-term, landscape-scale work
• Keep the resilience rolling
As our watershed faces increasing climate pressures, your contribution ensures that we can respond with creativity, partnership, and resilience.
Join us this Colorado Gives Day and help power the next chapter of BWC’s climate resilience work.
Thank you for being part of this evolving story and for supporting a healthier, more resilient watershed for us all.
With gratitude,
The Boulder Watershed Collective Team
Mission
To cultivate partnerships, promote community stewardship, and revitalize social and ecological systems within the Boulder Creek Watershed and beyond.
Background Statement
The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to strengthening the resilience, health, and climate adaptability of the Boulder Creek Watershed. Originally founded as the Fourmile Watershed Coalition to support post-flood recovery efforts, we created critical pathways for communities to rebuild stronger—implementing 11 stream restoration and mine reclamation projects, improving more than 13,000 linear feet of stream, removing legacy mine contamination, and planting over 24,000 native plants and trees.
As climate challenges intensified, so did our mission. In 2019, we evolved into the Boulder Watershed Collective and expanded our reach across the larger Boulder Creek watershed. Today, we are a mature, established organization advancing integrated climate adaptation strategies across forests, riverscapes, and communities.
Our work now includes large-scale wildfire mitigation and forest health projects, defensible space and home hardening in high-risk communities, and restoration of wet meadows and healthy riverscapes to improve water storage, ecological function, and natural wildfire buffers. We conduct water quality monitoring and riverscape assessments and partner with landowners to design and implement solutions tailored to their values and site-specific needs.
Central to everything we do is community leadership. We specialize in building trusted relationships, facilitating inclusive engagement, and supporting neighborhoods in co-creating climate-adaptive pathways that reflect local priorities. Our impact is rooted in partnership: a powerful network of communities, researchers, agencies, and organizations who work together to create lasting, landscape-scale resilience.
The Boulder Watershed Collective exists to knit these efforts together—aligning science, stewardship, and community action to help the watershed thrive in a changing climate.
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BOULDER, CO 80302