Senior Buddy Appreciation Happy Hour

Thank you to everyone who braved the heat and made it to the Senior Buddy Appreciation Happy Hour at Vail Brewing Company! You are someone who matters to someone who matters, and we know that Buddy Mentors wouldn’t exist without your time and dedication. Thank you.  Vail Mountain Coffee and Tea, Mangiare Italian Market, Solandra…

Buddy Mentor art show a smash!

January is National Mentoring Month and our mentors have been busy!! Last Thursday, the Buddy Mentors hosted their first-ever art show at Color Coffee Roasters in Eagle. The masterpieces were created at Alpine Arts in November and now are on display for the entire month! Please stop by Color Coffee, get a treat and enjoy…

Buddy Mentors Happiness Sprinkling

Buddy Mentors sprinkle happiness in Eagle County

Commuters driving through Eagle on January 29 may have noticed a group of adults and kids wearing yellow shirts and holding signs. It wasn’t a protest, or a call to endorse a political cause or candidate. It was simply a “Happiness Sprinkling.” A happiness sprinkling involves participants dressed in yellow holding signs with positive messages…

Mentoring Month 2018

Bright Future celebrates the efforts of mentors

Bright Future’s Buddy Mentors Program was among the local mentoring programs helping to proclaim January as National Mentoring Month at a recent Eagle County Board of Commissioners meeting. National Mentoring Month is an annual campaign aimed at expanding quality mentoring opportunities, and to connect more of our community’s young people with caring adults. “Mentoring Month…

Buddy Mentors December 2017 Holiday Party

Junior and senior buddies celebrate the holidays

Thank you to the good people at Vail Resorts EpicPromise and Howard Head Sports Medicine for helping make the holidays bright!  Youth and mentors from Bright Future Foundation’s Buddy Mentors Program celebrated the season with an evening full of festivities in Lionshead on Tuesday. The evening started with ice skating at Arrabelle rink. It was a picture perfect holiday…

Colorado Gives 2017

Bright Future participating in statewide giving day

Bright Future Foundation is once again participating in Colorado Gives Day – Colorado’s largest day of giving. Scheduled for Tuesday, December 5, 2017, Colorado Gives Day is the ultimate feel-good giving experience that connects donors with nonprofits while connecting nonprofits with an expanded base of supporters. Bright Future first participated in 2013, and to date has…

DVAM 2017 Stand Up

Bright Future marks 30th annual Domestic Violence Awareness Month

 Domestic violence leaves a devastating impact on members of our mountain communities, regardless of background or circumstance.  Bright Future Foundation is a community-based agency dedicated to “Making Futures Bright” by changing lives affected by domestic violence and sexual abuse. Annually, hundreds of families see Bright Future as a safe harbor, helping them to build trusting…