DIRECTORY
Africa-related organizations in Colorado
There are over 150 Africa-related businesses, organizations, clubs, and artists in Colorado, representing a wide range of countries, causes, and activities. From food trucks and restaurants to environmental action, human rights, and more this directory will help you connect and learn more about these organizations.
Bongo Love – Sculptor
Bongo Love is a sculptor who got his start in Zimbabwe.
In Zimbabwe, we're from the Shona tribe, and they are world-famous sculptors. That's when I started making sculptures for tourists. So whenever they saw an animal, like hippos or rhinos, they would want that as a sculpture. So we would carve them that.
I moved from Zimbabwe to Boulder in 2000, but I didn't carve for a while. I wanted to try and get my bearings right. I played music first, before carving. Homesickness turned me into a musician.
Bonnie Carol
With a natural energetic ease, Bonnie Carol sings and plays hammered and fretted dulcimers as well as African marimba, bodhrán, folk drums and hand percussion. A performance is likely to encompass traditional music from North and South America, the British Isles, Caribbean rhythms, and even Tex-Mex tunes, all fitting together in that exuberant whole we call World Music.
In addition to her solo concerts, Bonnie can be found playing in a Celtic ensemble, and a contra and square dance band. More about each of these options below.
Bonnie's music has filled concert halls form New York to Nicaragua for four decades. She is an international ambassador for peace in the most artistic sense, a visionary from the high country of Colorado. She has an arresting natural charm, extraordinary talent and energy, acres of instruments and mountains of talent.
Bonnie possesses professional credentials that are some of the most complete in the industry. She has produced, recorded, and distributed half a dozen recordings of her music, on which she plays the majority of the instruments. She has played on dozens of others musicians' CDs as a studio musician. She put her knowledge of traditional music, dulcimers, and African marimbas into the dozen books she has authored. Most of the dulcimer contests across the nation have seen Bonnie win or place.
Born Free Safaris
In the early 1970’s, Joy Adamson, naturalist, artist and author of the best-selling book and subsequent film “Born Free”, which describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa, approached then travel agent Alana Hayden about creating ‘Born Free’ safari groups as a fund raising arm of her organization, Elsa Wild Animal Appeal. Having created and led the first ‘Born Free Safari’ to Africa for the Elsa Wild Animal Appeal, Alana was inspired to return home to the U.S. and lead the way in the creative journey for the traveler, by introducing to the general public affordable private safaris, as well as scheduled safaris that had all the features of a custom trip incorporating small properties and off the beaten track cultural interactions. Alana went on to found the Association for the Promotion of Tourism to Africa (APTA) – an organization that educates members of the travel industry how to select the best safari for the traveler and how to make sure that the safari could be booked with confidence. APTA is now world-wide and has over a thousand safari professionals as its members. For over 35 years Born Free Safaris has been providing the kind of expertise, experience, personal service and attention to the details that matter to the discriminating traveler that you would expect from a company from which the mold of all African Safari and Tour operators were made.
Bridge for Africa
Bridge for Africa is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to promoting self-sufficiency and the dignity of work in rural African communities.Bridge began in 2003 with the chance meeting of an African and an American in South Africa; they recognized that while the art emerging from Africa represents an extraordinary blend of tradition, vibrancy and the beauty of modern Africa, local markets are such that artisans are frequently not rewarded with a living wage for their work. These women from two continents then envisioned a non-profit organization committed to Building Resources to Inspire Dignity, Growth, and Empowerment (BRIDGE) through trade. Fair Trade practices – to which we adhere as a proud member of the Fair Trade Federation – offer the guarantee of fair wages, equal opportunities, safe working conditions, and long-term relationships built on mutual respect. Today, Bridge for Africa is a well-established and respected provider of fine contemporary crafts to the American market. We pay the artists a living wage, promote sustainable development in Africa, and educate consumers in the U.S. about the benefits of Fair Trade as a method to fight poverty in the developing world. Our goal is to provide consistent work and a living wage for the skilled artisans with whom we partner, enabling them to shape their own lives and thereby advancing hope for future generations.
Our Mission: Our mission is to realize the incredible potential for making a difference in African artisan communities by harnessing the outstanding artistic talent of African artisans to create marketable products for sale in the U.S.
Our products are currently located in over 300 stores across the U.S , 90 museums and 28 zoo's.
Bridges To Prosperity
Bridges to Prosperity envisions a world where poverty caused by rural isolation no longer exists. Rural isolation is a root cause of poverty, and we believe that connection is the foundation to opportunity. We work with local communities, partners and foundations, to build footbridges that connect residents to education, health care and economic opportunity. With a sophisticated data collection and evaluation program, we’re able to prove that the value and impact of our work is sustained long after the opening celebration.
Brother Jeff Cultural Center
Brother Jeff’s Cultural Center, founded in 1994 is located in the historic Five Points District in Northeast Denver—a space committed to fostering growth, strength, and voice in the community.
These ends are achieved through the exploration of visual and performing arts, celebrations, and programs that inform and enrich people’s lives. The Cultural Center’s Award-Winning Open-Mic Poetry Set has been at the center of the growing national cultural arts movement and has hosted such literary notables as Amiri Baraka, Jessica Care Moore, Kevin Powell, Sonia Sanchez, and Haki Madhabuti. The Center has also born the dynamic cast and production of Ego Trippin’, a program that fuses poetry, jazz, hip-hop, dance, and music in an exploration of pivotal social issues and ills. Committed to youth, the Cultural Center also sponsors an annual free summer lunch program for area children, providing sustenance, support, enrichment and fun for young people during the summer. The center hosts a variety of special events and celebrations that serve to ground community throughout the year including Juneteenth, Kwanzaa, and Black History Month activities.
Chapungu Sculpture
Founded by Roy Guthrie, as African Art Promotions Inc. in 1970, Chapungu Sculpture Park has pioneered the promotion of Zimbabwe Stone Sculpture (Shona Sculpture) and has built up the most important permanent collection of this work in existence.
2725 Rocky Mountain Ave # 200, Loveland, CO
80538
Children of Hope
In 2003 we opened our hearts and doors to orphaned, abandoned, neglected and abused children. Children of Hope® provides these children with the love, family, education and home everyone deserves.
Since we started our ministry, several of our children have since grown up, finished college and have successfully transitioned into independent adulthood. As they move on, we continue to welcome new children into our homes and family.
Children With Hope
Children with Hope exists to meet the spiritual, physical, emotional, educational and economic needs of orphan children. CWH is a Christian organization that seeks to accomplish this mission by effectively and wisely providing the services most critical to children who have been orphaned.
Children with Hope is a Christian ministry that is based on biblical principles. We believe that Christ has called us to minister to the hurting in our world, and orphans are one of those special groups that we are called to care for (James 1:27). One of the basic principles that CWH is based on, is that of integrity. The issue of integrity goes to financial stewardship and extends to the manner in which the CWH board conducts the ministry. Board members receive no compensation of any kind for their service.
Children’s Hope Chest
Children’s HopeChest equips vulnerable children, their families, and communities to empower them to become more self-sustaining and escape the cycle of poverty.
Our work hinges on partnerships that come alongside the vision of indigenous leaders to develop and nurture a community.
We connect Christian communities in the U.S. and Canada with communities of orphaned and vulnerable children overseas. Our unique Community-to-Community model leverages the power of relationships to see long-term transformation occur in the lives of children and their surrounding communities. Ultimately, these relationships and resources have the ability to release the potential of vulnerable children and their communities.