Archive for the ‘Nonprofit’ Category
The Financial Times ranked the Center for Creative Leadership No. 6 among executive education institutions. The North Carolina-based nonprofit has offices in Colorado Springs, San Diego, Brussels,Moscow, Singapore;,New Delhi and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The ranking comes from a worldwide survey about executive education, according to a release from the group. This marks the second year [...] [...]
An Englewood-based nonprofit that trains rescue dogs for people with disabilities is the winner of a $75,000 marketing grant from Pure Brand Communications. Last month, Denver-based Pure Brand invited nonprofits from across the country to apply for the grant, and only 27 threw their hats into the ring. [...]
One in seven Coloradans don’t know where their next meal will come from. But you can help, through Wal-Mart’s “fighting hunger together” campaign. The company has been holding a Facebook campaign in April. Visitors can go to their page and vote for one of 200 communities hardest hit by unemployment. Colorado Springs made the list [...] [...]
El Paso County is ahead of other counties when it comes to planning for the silver tsunami, according to national experts who study the issue. Local community leaders are already rallying around the topic of aging trying to plan for the estimated 82,000 baby boomers, those over age 65, who will live in El Paso [...] [...]
Goodwill is opening a new drive-through donation center April 30 at its administrative campus, 1460 Garden of the Gods Road. The center will be open from 7 a.m to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Donations of clothing, shoes, housewares, furniture, appliances, sporting goods, computers and electronics, books [...] [...]
Colorado women still earn only 77 cents for every dollar their male counterparts earn, according to the Women’s Resource Agency. The nonprofit is hoping to assist women in getting ahead in the workforce through its Equal Pay Day Rally and Suit Drive that will benefit its Dress for Success program. The event is scheduled for [...] [...]
A Denver-based communications firm is giving away $75,000 worth of creative services to one nonprofit organization. Pure Brand Communications is accepting applications from nonprofit organizations across the country who need branding, marketing and other creative services. For one year, the company will treat the nonprofit agency like any other client. The company, which is about [...] [...]
Goodwill Industries of Colorado Springs has changed its name to Discover Goodwill of Southern and Western Colorado. The new name better represents the organization’s expanded mission and regional presence, according to a press release. “We’re no longer just within Colorado Springs,” said Goodwill spokesman Brad Hafer. “We’re in 38 of 64 counties in Colorado.” The [...] [...]
Colorado Farm Bureau Foundation has established an agricultural disaster fund to help people whose farms were damaged by a fire that swept through Yuma County earlier this week. Farmers and ranchers lost miles of fencing, hay and grass. The fire endangered humans, livestock, structures and homes, but is now 100 percent contained. It burned a [...] [...]
TESSA, Colorado Springs’ nonprofit focused on preventing domestic violence and assisting women who are victims, saw more people in 2011 than in the previous year. In its quartlery issue, “Be the Change,” TESSA executives reported having more than 100 additional hospital calls in 2011, and more than 10,000 nights of safe shelter provided to more [...] [...]
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