Author: Wayne Heilman Special to The Gazette
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The Empty Stocking Fund: The Place fills need for youths without a home
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Place next April will open the biggest expansion in its five-year history when it opens The Launchpad, a 50-unit apartment complex designed to provide permanent housing for youths until they can find somewhere to live themselves. Young adults ages 18-25 will sign one-year leases…
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The Empty Stocking Fund: The Place fills need for youths without a home
The Place next April will open the biggest expansion in its five-year history when it opens The Launchpad, a 50-unit apartment complex designed to provide permanent housing for youths until they can find somewhere to live themselves. Young adults ages 18-25 will sign one-year leases on apartments in the $20 million project on the west…
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Empty Stocking Fund: Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center will be 10 years old next year, and the nonprofit has grown from its founder as the only employee in one office to a staff of 44 full-time employees, three part-timers and eight contractors in five offices across Colorado. The…
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Empty Stocking Fund: Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center
Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center will be 10 years old next year, and the nonprofit has grown from its founder as the only employee in one office to a staff of 44 full-time employees, three part-timers and eight contractors in five offices across Colorado. The nonprofit was based on the vision of the late Jay…
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Empty Stocking Fund: Behavioral health partnership aids in Tri-Lakes
While Tri-Lakes Cares celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, the nonprofit service agency has added a key ingredient to its menu of homelessness prevention services — behavioral health help through a partnership with Peak Vista Community Health Centers. Under the partnership, Peak Vista began sending a mobile unit weekly to the Tri-Lakes area in September to…
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Back to office? Hybrid? Colorado Springs businesses deal with lasting impact of pandemic
More than four years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic turned the traditional office environment upside down, some companies are simply done with the whole out-of-the-office thing. Amid a mandate for social distancing, most office employees were sent home to work during the early days of the pandemic. And for many, that remote work…
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A look at how Colorado Springs businesses are embracing AI
The AI revolution is well underway — and Colorado Springs is determined to be a key part of it as a host of industries explore the promise of artificial intelligence. “From startups to established enterprises, companies in Colorado Springs are embracing the potential of AI to streamline processes, gain insights, improve customer experiences and transform businesses,”…
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Study of AI is nothing new for Colorado Springs professor
Decades before OpenAI’s ChatGPT propelled artificial intelligence into the national consciousness, Jugal Kalita was immersed in the world of AI. Kalita, a University of Colorado Colorado Springs computer science professor and chair of the school’s computer science department, has been doing research into artificial intelligence for more than 40 years. He taught many of the 25…
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BEST & BRIGHTEST: Hard work and selfless service pay off
Heng Shen never understood why his Chinese immigrant father pushed him so hard to be a good student and have a top-quality character until he got his first job — in a restaurant, just like his father — and traveled to where his father grew up. Shen’s father grew up in a rural Chinese village with little…
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BEST & BRIGHTEST: Aspiring physician has already achieved major goals
If Abdimalik Hussein had grown up in his native Somalia, he likely would have spent his life doing manual labor. Instead, his family moved to Colorado in 2010, and he plans to attend the University of Pennsylvania in the fall to eventually become a neurosurgeon. To help children in Somalia get an education that would…