Students come to HMI for life-changing experiences from our campus high in the Rocky Mountains to the wilds of Patagonia. 

The High Mountain Institute engages students with the natural world. Our school boldly unites rigorous intellectual inquiry, experiential learning, wilderness expeditions, and shared responsibility in a strong community. Our students realize their potential—as leaders, independent thinkers, and thoughtful citizens.

High Mountain Institute

POW helps passionate outdoor people protect the places and experiences they love from climate change. 

We believe that outdoor enthusiasts can be impactful climate advocates. But we get it, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the scope of the problem and it’s hard to know where to begin.

Consider POW your guide to climate advocacy. We’ll meet you where you are—whether in the backcountry or the climbing gym, we’ll connect you with other like-minded adventurers and we’ll show you the ropes of advocacy. It’s a lot easier and more
impactful than you realize.

Then, we’ll turn you loose with all the easy-to-deploy tools you’ll need to make your voice heard

Protect Our Winters

Penguins International is a nonprofit organization committed to preserving & protecting all species of penguins around the world.

Penguins International is a non-profit organization committed to preserving and protecting penguins around the world. To accomplish this mission, we actively engage in penguin conservation, we educate the public on threats to penguins, and we conduct scientific research investigations to understand penguin biology and best methods for conservation, three activities that go hand-in-hand to fully understand these amazing species of birds and protect them for all to cherish.

Penguins International

A "home for meditation in nature" featuring low-cost retreats in a stunning wilderness setting just 30 min west of Boulder, CO.

Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center

Food Aid Project advances food and economic security via decision support, linking markets, aiding food banks, and global aid

**Food Aid Project, Inc.** is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit committed to enhancing global food security and economic opportunity. We achieve our mission by improving the efficiency of bulk food procurement and distribution networks, supporting food banks across the U.S. & Canada, and distributing food aid in multiple third world countries.

Through our inclusive economy of access model, we empower farmers, exporters, and traders by connecting them directly to commodity markets, creating opportunities for growth and sustainability. Your support helps us democratize access to markets, critical information, and food aid, ensuring that no community is left behind. Together, we can combat hunger, uplift underserved populations, and build a more equitable future. Thank you for being part of this vital work!

Food Aid Project, Inc.

SStS puts students shoulder-to-shoulder with inspirational leaders to build the next generation of the world’s visionaries.

We give students in grades 8-12 the opportunity to learn about the principle of ethical leadership from inspiring nonprofit leaders. Students discover the complexity of global challenges by working and learning alongside our trusted partners while immersed in the communities they serve.

Students Shoulder To Shoulder

Build Change works globally to prevent housing loss caused by earthquakes and climate-related disasters.

Build Change is the global leader for systems change in resilient housing. We work with homeowners, governments, and finance institutions to prevent housing loss caused by disasters, and to transform the systems for regulating, financing, building and improving houses around the world.

Build Change’s engineers, builders, coders, policy advocates, and lending partners are providing urgently needed housing solutions in the world’s most disaster-prone countries. Since 2004, Build Change has safeguarded more than $5 billion in housing infrastructure assets across Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia Pacific, improving the lives of over 1.2 million people and building new or retrofitting more than 230,000 buildings. Find out more at buildchange.org.

Over the next decade, more than 96,000 new affordable and accessible homes will need to be built every day worldwide to meet the demand for housing. Our goal is that governments, the private sector, and nonprofits unite to make sure all of this housing is safe, disaster-resilient, and climate-smart.

Build Change

Mas Mariposas is US based non-profit that supports the work of La Mariposa in Nicaragua.

La Mariposa is a Spanish School in Nicaragua that uses all its proceeds to support animal projects (animal rescue & sterilization clinics), programs for childrens (after school programs, and therapy for children with disabilities), environmental projects (reforestation), and community support and relief.

Mas Mariposas

ASES is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused organization advocating for renewable energy in the United States.

ASES is the leading solar energy advocacy organization in the United States and believes that knowledge and community are a powerful combination for change. ASES is an integral part of the nation’s grassroots solar energy network with over 20,000 members across the country, many of whom are the leading national and international experts in the solar energy field. ASES manages the National Solar Conference and the National Solar Tour. It also implements solar demonstration projects around the nation. Through signature publications such as Solar Today magazine and Solar@Work newsletter, ASES fosters an informed, inclusive society by presenting technical data and academic research to the greater community.

American Solar Energy Society

Historic Boulder Inc. is a nonprofit founded in 1972 to save historic buildings in Boulder Colorado.  We save places that matter. 

Historic Boulder was born following a battle to save precious pieces of Boulder’s past. Highland School, the Union-Pacific Depot and Central School were all threatened with demolition in 1971. Historic Boulder, organized in 1972, was instrumental in saving Highland School (shown at right) and the depot. Sadly, Central School was demolished. Out of this experience rose the urgency for a legal mechanism to protect historic sites. It became clear that Boulder needed a local government mechanism for this, and to oversee and the administration of a local landmarking process. Historic Boulder drafted a historic preservation ordinance, which was unanimously voted into place by City Council unanimously adopted in 1974. To this day, Historic Boulder collaborates with the Landmarks Board and City Preservation Staff to support their mission to preserve and protect the historic, architectural, and environmental assets that contribute to Boulder’s unique sense of place.  

Education is at the core of our public programming because an informed society is an empowered society. The public programs below enable Historic Boulder to foster the spirit and promote the benefits of preservation:

- Lecture series for Preservation Month in May
- History Hikes and tours year round.
- Annual secondary student essay contest on historic preservation.  
- Meet the Spirits historical reenactment at Columbia Cemetery every other October (Even years)
- Ghost Walk/Ghost Talk tour in October every other October (Odd years)
- Homes for the Holidays Tour of historic houses every December
- Walking tour App highlighting the history of early African American residents
- Mid-Century Modern Architecture Tour in development 

Historic Boulder advocates both on behalf of historic structures and has standing to initiate local landmarking applications.  Most recently, Historic Boulder has successfully  advocated for the landmarking of the Atrium Building, the Marpa House, the Dushanbe Teahouse (interior and exterior).  

Historic Boulder holds easements on several buildings - commercial and homes - in town and maintains an easement inspection program to assure the maintenance of their historic features.  These include the Boulder Theater, with which we are partnering as a fiscal sponsor to assess and rehabilitate the iconic Art-Deco facade.  

Historic Boulder is celebrating it's 50th Anniversary this year - 2022 - with a series of events highlighting our People, our Partners and our Projects over the past five decades.  


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