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| The Boulder County Business Report IQ Awards |
Bryce Brown receives his Non-Profit IQ Award. | 
IQ Winners receive their awards. |
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The biggest news for 2006 is that Our Love of Children Foundation’s “School Wellbeing Project”
won the Boulder County Business Report’s Non-Profit IQ (Innovation Quotient) Award. |
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IQ Awards winners were judged by local chief executives and business professors for creative
and innovative products and services. This year there were thirty finalists, chosen from more
than 80 nominations. |
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The awards were presented by Master of Ceremonies, Greg Moss, business news anchor/ reporter
for 9 News. The IQ Award winners were announced at the awards and networking event Thursday,
August 17, at the University of Colorado’s stadium Club at Folsom Field.
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Whilst the award has no monetary value, it does come with the recognition- that in the eyes of
the judges, the School Wellbeing Project is seen as an exciting and truly innovative service
for the children in our community. Hopefully businesses and donors in the community will
continue to fund our projects and programs to greater success. |
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| 9News.com Story from 9/20/06 |
 Local school serving spinach. (read more)
Creekside Elementary started its own vegetable garden last year through a program called "The Garden to the Table." The idea came from a local non-profit group called Our Love of Children. |
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| New Zealand Enviroschools Partnership |
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Our Love of Children Foundation has begun to form a partnership with the New Zealand Enviroschools Foundation.
This foundation has received $13 million from the New Zealand government to expand its environmental education
program. This program engages schools in a 3 year process of environmental learning and action. The process is
guided by a Facilitator who strengthens community links and supports evaluation and reporting. The work of the
Enviroschools foundation is recognized by the US EPA as an innovative approach to furthering the goals of
sustainable development through education. |
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this partnership is to make international contact between schools and children. The partnership would allow
children to email each other and write about what they are doing to protect the environment and stay healthy.
In many ways Our Love of children Foundation and the Envirschools Foundation would be collaborating to assist
the children in understanding that the environmental issues the world faces are not limited to one country, but
instead require the involvement of children from all around the world. |
Bryce Brown of Our Love of Children Foundation with Kate Jackson,
Enviroschools facilitator for North Shore
City,
and Enviroschool student leaders from Windy Ridge Primary School
in Auckland, New Zealand. |
Enviroschool in Auckland, New Zealand |
