UCCS, El Pomar set out on epic business adventures
UCCS professor Tom Duening stood before a crowd of about 100 business leaders this week for the annual El Pomar Institute for Innovation and Commercialization report to the community. Duening, the El Pomar Endowed Chair of Business and Entrepreneurship, said he was surprised that so many people were interested in his work. He shouldn’t be. [...]
The trustees of the El Pomar Foundation recently approved 90 grants totaling $1.4 million. The grants represent 27 counties in Colorado. Nearly 50 of the grants were in the Pikes Peak region, including several to area fire stations and nonprofits aiding in the Waldo Canyon fire relief. The local recipients: – American Heart Association, $10,000 [...]
Continue reading …Twelve Colorado Springs nonprofits received grants from the El Pomar Foundation. The local nonprofits were among 22 recipients of grants from the foundation, which has provided grants and support to the state since 1937. Below are the local grants: – The American Lung Association of Colorado received a $2,500 Ackerman Fund grant to implement a [...]
Continue reading …For the fifth time since the start of the economic downturn, El Pomar Foundation is distributing emergency funds to Colorado nonprofit organizations helping those who continue to struggle meeting basic needs. Throughout the state more than 150 nonprofit organizations that focus on direct human service support will receive grants totaling $1 million over the next [...]
Continue reading …The trustees of El Pomar Foundation met recently to consider grant proposals. They approved 57 grants totaling more than $1 million. The organizations receiving grants represent 26 counties across the state of Colorado. Front Range Grants American Council of Young Political Leaders – $60,000 Audio Information Network of Colorado – $10,000 Bonfils Blood Center Foundation [...]
Continue reading …The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is now offering online entrepreneurship classes. The school’s College of Business has launched its Practical Entrepreneurship Program, a non-credit track program that includes 21 courses on subjects ranging from market evaluation to raising capital, legal structures for new businesses, writing a business plan and setting up an office. [...]
Continue reading …A team of businessmen and athletic activists has won a bid to bring two high-profile international sporting events to Colorado Springs in 2012. Colorado Springs will host the 2012 FISU World University Championships, in boxing and softball, which is expected to bring several hundred athletes, officials and delegates from as many as 30 different countries to the city [...]
Continue reading …The board of directors for the National Museum of World War II Aviation has almost everything it needs: the land, some exhibits, an educational plan and concept drawings. Airplanes ready to go on display, and steel has been acquired to build a hangar that will serve as an education building. All it needs now is [...]
Continue reading …Christina McGrath has been appointed executive director of the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region. McGrath, who has lived in Colorado Springs for more than 20 years, has taken classes at both the Bemis School of Art and The Colorado Springs School, and now sits on the board of Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity. [...]
Continue reading …The National Museum of World War II Aviation has received $40,000 in grants from the El Pomar Foundation and the Anna Keesling Ackerman Fund, which El Pomar Foundation oversees, for museum planning and design. The museum is planned to be built on 20 acres adjacent to a main runway at the Colorado Springs Municipal Airport [...]
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