Discover Goodwill will participate in the 2013 Checkoff Colorado campaign Discover Goodwill of Southern and Western Colorado is one of 15 nonprofits selected by the state Legislature to participate in 2013’s Checkoff Colorado, a public-awareness campaign promoting voluntary contributions to designated charitable organizations. Coloradans preparing 2012 state income taxes have the opportunity to contribute a portion [...]
Continue reading …Ian Ahrendsen and Paul Clarkin have earned New England Financial’s Leaders level of recognition, which is given to top producers who exemplify the highest standards of personal integrity, professionalism and customer service across the company. Ahrendsen has worked in financial services for three years. Clarkin, who has an MBA in finance from the University of [...]
Continue reading …Morgan Stanley Colorado employees contribute nearly $300,000 to charities Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Colorado Springs office donated more than $3,000 to the Waldo Canyon Fire Fighters Fund to support efforts of public and volunteer fire departments in El Paso and Teller counties. Statewide, Colorado employees contributed $289,123 last year. Last year, Morgan Stanley was recognized [...]
Continue reading …The University of Colorado Colorado Springs is embarking on a new venture that could be the start of an entrepreneurial renaissance like no other in the region. UCCS has joined private citizens to create a nonprofit organization, the UCCS Development Corp., to launch startup firms, participate in public-private business ventures and attract investors. The newly [...]
Continue reading …Pikes Peak Hospice & Palliative Care named Tiffany Buranosky vice president of quality, compliance and education, and Dan Schroeder vice president of innovation and business development. Buranosky has been outpatient RN, director of PPHPC’s inpatient unit and vice president of clinical services. Prior to joining PPHPC, she had 13 years of experience in long-term care [...]
Continue reading …Stakes are high for both sides involved in a lawsuit about the municipal bonds paid off early after Memorial Hospital was leased last year to the University of Colorado Health. And neither side — the nine investors with about $47 million invested in the bonds nor the city of Colorado Springs — is backing down. [...]
Continue reading …“How are things over at the city of the dead?” a reporter recently asked Will DeBoer, who manages Colorado Springs’ city cemetery enterprise. “Quiet and peaceful,” replied DeBoer, giving a good-natured response to a quip that he’s heard hundreds of times. In fact, things are not entirely peaceful at the cemeteries. Like any business, the [...]
Continue reading …Panera Bread donates $11,000 to Care & Share Panera Bread of Colorado Springs raised $11,000 for Care and Share Food Bank through a community collaboration dubbed “Operation Dough-Nation.” Five Colorado Springs bakery-cafes from the Operation Dough-Nation program collectively raised $11,000 from the donation boxes at each cash register. In 2012 Panera Bread donated $164,000 to [...]
Continue reading …Mary Greenwood has been promoted to mortgage loan officer at Ent Federal Credit Union. She has been with Ent for seven years and started as a member service representative. Most recently, she worked as a consumer lending specialist at Ent’s Falcon service center. Dr. Tim Gramling, president of Colorado Technical University, Southern Colorado, has joined [...]
Continue reading …McCloskey named auto dealer of the year Joe McCloskey, owner of McCloskey Motors in Colorado Springs, has been named the 2012 Colorado Independent Automobile Dealers Association’s Dealer of the Year. McCloskey represents CIADA by service to the industry, outstanding business operations, and community service. As of September 2012, McCloskey Motors (which opened in 1989) has [...]
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