Tag: nonprofit
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Colorado Springs nonprofit, restaurant team up to teach cooking skills to kids with special needs
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With the help from a professional chef, 14 kids with developmental or intellectual disabilities took a crack at making sushi through a program designed to foster independence and connection. Part of The Resource Exchange’s “Cooking Time” program, the pre-teens and teens chopped up avocados and rolled up fish and rice with seaweed at Rock N’…
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Nonprofit ActivateWork focused on free tech training looks to serve military community
Amid a changing tech industry, ActivateWork, a Denver-based nonprofit, wants to help more members of the military community find jobs through free training. The nonprofit was founded about 10 years ago and works to prepare members of underserved communities for entry-level tech jobs through intensive bootcamps, said Vic Dhanecha, program manager for veteran recruitment and partnerships…
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Teller Senior Coalition feels the crunch but shares the love
In 2024, the Teller Senior Coalition put together 110 Thanksgiving bags which were delivered to seniors in need throughout Teller County. This year, budget constraints cut that number to 62, but a chance meeting brought in reinforcements to bolster those numbers to serve more. Many are doing more math than ever as they plan for the holiday…
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Reindeer Ruck on Fort Carson delivers toys for Christmas giveaway
The Warrior Warehouse on Fort Carson started filling up with toys Friday morning, ahead of the large annual Christmas giveaway planned in mid-December. The warehouse gave toys to 700 families on post last year, serving about 1,600 children from infants to teenagers, said Donna Swanson, who runs the nonprofit. On Thursday, Swanson waited for an…
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Pat Lockhart, 40-year member of Pikes Peak Road Runners, has died
The Pikes Peak Road Runners, a local running club and nonprofit that celebrated its 50th anniversary this year, lost one of its most beloved members when Patricia “Pat” Lockhart died suddenly at home last week. Lockhart, who served in multiple roles during more than 40 years with the Road Runners, was 76. “Pat was the…
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Sober softball league hits home runs for mental health, addiction recovery in Colorado Springs
It’s early on a Friday evening in August this summer, and Anna Martinez takes home plate on field No. 4 at the Skyview Sports Complex. Her eyes are locked on the softball just pitched toward her. As it speeds closer, Martinez projects onto that ball every frustration, annoyance and worry on her mind that day. Her grip…
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The Warfighters Mission: Veteran-run organization builds momentum helping service members
After being medically retired in 2013 due to injuries suffered in Afghanistan, Army veteran Brandon Cabalar struggled to redefine his purpose. “I just kind of lost my place in the world,” said Cabalar, who was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan for combat operations. “I felt like I was just letting my family down. I was…
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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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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…