Tag: fundraising
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Colorado charities pay bingo volunteers despite law prohibiting it
Colorado’s charitable gaming laws succinctly prohibit state nonprofits from paying or remunerating volunteers who work the bingo and raffle games they host. That doesn’t seem to stop them. The Denver Gazette identified at least three organizations – all of them related to youth sports – that funnel charitable gaming proceeds to the financial benefit of…
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Colorado bingo nonprofits don’t always tell the IRS what they tell the state, some say nothing
Editor’s note: This is the last in a three-part series examing Colorado’s $110 million charitable gaming industry. Colorado nonprofits that rely on charitable gaming to raise funds – most through bingo nights – are required to file regular financial reports with state regulators that track how much money comes in, how much goes out and…
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Winning a raffle in Colorado doesn’t always mean someone actually wins
Colorado’s professional sports teams at one time each paired with local nonprofits to run 50/50 raffles that yearly pulled in hundreds of thousands of dollars. Not all have kept with the practice. The Colorado Rockies and its namesake foundation is the sole team that maintains a partnership. But records show even with a lousy team…
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Felons engaged in Colorado’s charitable gaming industry
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Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series examining Colorado’s $110 million charitable gaming industry. Howard Geller told police that Big Dog wanted Geller to get some people and head to Akron, Colo., so he hopped into his Dodge Durango along with his buddy, Cricket, and a woman he knew and off they…
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Colorado bingo night: It’s all about the prizes, not so much the charity
It’s a Thursday night at Bingo Oasis in Northglenn. Located on the outer edge of a nondescript strip mall just west of I-25, it has a simple façade sign advertising what goes on behind the mirrored and postered windows: BINGO. About the only giveaway to the activity there is that the 50 or so cars…
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Colorado’s $110M bingo industry is littered with loopholes — and hardly anyone is watching
Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part series examing Colorado’s $110 million charitable gaming industry. Colorado’s charitable gaming industry – hundreds of bingo nights and raffle drawings across the state – is a $110-million-a-year enterprise that for decades has operated with thin oversight and little actual financial return to the charities the law…
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Kids with Down syndrome become stars during Christmas variety show in Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When the curtain goes up on “Christmas This Year,” an annual holiday variety show featuring performers born with Down syndrome, it will mark the 10th year of an adventure that has blossomed from a small show with just a handful of performers to a sold-out…
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Leadership Arts 2024-25 registration opens; early signup deadline approaches | NONPROFIT REGISTER
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COLORADO BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS Denver News: Colorado Business Committee for the Arts (CBCA) has opened registration for its 2024-25 Leadership Arts program and is offering a 10 percent discount on tuition for those signing up by end of day on July 12. (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:11095963150525286,size:[0, 0],id:”ld-2426-4417″});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=”//cdn2.lockerdomecdn.com/_js/ajs.js”;j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,”script”,”ld-ajs”); For 25 years, Leadership Arts has been dedicated…
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Veterans work to forge Honor Bell for Colorado Springs to bring healing
Vietnam veteran Larry Peterson finds healing in the solemn tones of a bronze bell tolled to honor Colorado veterans for the final time. “The bell has been the best PTSD medicine I have had,” said Peterson, a member of the Honor Bell guard and an Honor Bell Foundation board member. The first time he rang…
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Vietnam veteran Larry Peterson finds healing in the solemn tones of a bronze bell tolled to honor Colorado veterans for the final time. “The bell has been the best PTSD medicine I have had,” said Peterson, a member of the Honor Bell guard and an Honor Bell Foundation board member. The first time he rang…