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 – $15,000
Boys Hope, Girls Hope [...] [...]
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.
Each [...] [...]
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 next [...] [...]
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 money.
The group [...] [...]
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.
She [...] [...]
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 and [...] [...]
Married, middle aged, employed and living in a three-bedroom house, Shelly and Daryl Gottier never imagined they’d end up homeless — much less living along Monument Creek in a tent during winter.
But that’s what happened.
After a death in the family and losing their jobs in the midst of the economic downturn, they were evicted from [...] [...]
Two local organizations will receive awards during the El Pomar Foundation’s Awards for Excellence presentation Tuesday.
Both nonprofits – Homeward Pikes Peak and the Myron Stratton Consortium – are finalists and guaranteed to receive $7,500.
Thirty-three organizations in Colorado will receive awards. During the ceremony, Nov. 9 at The Broadmoor, the winners in 11 categories will be announced. [...] [...]
by Staff Writer Published: November 12,2009
Tags: El Pomar, USOC
It’s hard to imagine what would become of the grandiose schemes of our city’s leaders without the beneficence of the El Pomar Foundation.
When it became clear to foundation CEO Bill Hybl and the El Pomar board that Mayor Lionel Rivera could not raise the $1.5 million required to satisfy the requirements of phase one of [...] [...]
El Pomar Foundation will make a $3 million grant to the city of Colorado Springs and the United States Olympic Committee to “satisfy the next phase of the agreement to keep the USOC in Colorado Springs.”
Acknowledging the urgency surrounding the grant, El Pomar CEO Bill Hybl said that the entire $3 million would be placed [...] [...]
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