FLOWS, Foundations for Leaders Organizing for Water and Sustainability, serves primarily low-income communities with energy and water conservation upgrades and information. This fall the program is back in action with some exciting news to share. The City of Boulder has funded FLOWS to support the Climate Mobilization Action Plan (CMAP) and to take bold, innovative and collaborative actions to create systemic change that equitably address the global climate crisis and ensure the quality of life of all Boulder residents and beyond. Since 2016, FLOWS has been an in-person program that highlights the leadership of members of Boulder's BIPOC communities that live in affordable housing.
The COVID-19 pandemic put a temporary halt on our service, but this has also allowed us to become more adaptive and to implement creative solutions to continue to build capacity in the communities that we belong to. Through this partnership's funding, FLOWS has decided to host a virtual education series for the community led by community members, and to continue to provide training for our FLOWS technicians. These Spanish-first educational series will be a platform for diverse voices to speak on social and climate justice and its undeniable intersection.
With this partnership, FLOWS hopes to support the City’s racial equity commitment, in order to create an equitable and resilient community that is able to respond to the effects of the climate crisis and to engage and mobilize all of Boulder’s communities in climate justice.
From our technicians
This is what our amazing FLOWS technicians had to say about working and learning with the program.
"My favorite part about FLOWS is having a good time doing the work." - Henry
"The best part about FLOWS is getting together with people from different backgrounds who are working together towards a common goal." - Elizabeth
"My favorite part is the education that FLOWS provides to diverse communities in order to understand how we are all interconnected with climate change." - Andrea