Nominated for Member’s Choice Awards
We are up for the Vail Valley Partnership’s Member’s Choice Award. Anyone and everyone can vote to support and honor survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. It takes less…
BrightHouse Update
As we celebrate 2021, progress toward the completion of the BrightHouse continues. We are enormously grateful to the team at RA Nelson for keeping us on schedule and under budget.…
Buddies Celebrate a Howard Head Christmas
The holidays looked a little different Buddy Mentors this year. Normally a highlight of the season, the annual Buddy Mentors Christmas party was cancelled due to Covid-19, but, thanks to…
New Year’s Resolution: Perhaps a new Buddy?
Ahh, New Year’s resolutions—what is on your list? Spend more time with family and friends? Spend less money? Lose weight? Learn something new? One of the great things about living/playing…
Buddy Mentors Challenge
With our community’s safety and health as our priority, we have cancelled November Buddy Mentors in-person group events. Instead we are excited to present a Buddy Mentors Fall/Winter Challenge! Complete the challenge…
Bright Future in this year’s Best of Vail Valley
We are honored and excited to be voted one of the Best Community Outreach Projects in the Vail Valley alongside The Community Market and The Cycle Effect. We are grateful…
October 22 Was Purple Thursday
Bright Future Foundation (BFF) Staff wearing purple in recognition of October’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month. BFF offers a full complement of professional services that help to break the generational cycle…
Buddies and Horses
“Grab a shovel and start shoveling!” Those were the instructions directed to the Buddies from Kensie, the Mountain Valley Horse Rescue coordinator, on a cool October morning in at Mountain…
Ellen Smith Eaton – Buddy Mentors 2019 Mentor of the Year
Congratulations to Ellen Smith Eaton for receiving the 2019 Buddy Mentors Mentor of the Year award, presented at the September Third Monday Potluck in Edwards. Ellen and Abel have been…
Safe Space Takes Shape
Bright Future Foundation Breaks Ground VAIL DAILY, August 27, 2020 by: John LaConte | jlaconte@vaildaily.com Bright Future Foundation breaks ground on new domestic abuse shelter in Eagle County PHOTO: Community…
For Doe Browning, It’s All About Connection
“If you have a sore throat, you take an aspirin. If things aren’t working for you in your head, go talk to somebody.” It’s a message that Doe Browning wants…
How We Socially Distance
Bright Future Foundation does a little hotline training using some good social distancing techniques!