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Denver Broncos and El Pomar Team Up for Salute to Fans Tour
The Super Bowl Champion Denver Broncos visited Durango, Montrose, Salida, La Junta, and Eagle for city wide celebrations in April and May of 2016.
Foster Care in the San Luis Valley
Research Report on Foster Care in the San Luis Valley, Regional Partnerships Program
The Complexity of Success
El Pomar staff engaged with Kurt Wilson, Ph.D. in Evaluation, to work with the staff to “strengthen feedback systems to identify clear and measureable outcomes and compile and distribute data in a useful format.”
Firefly Autism, Prognosis: Hope
Firefly Autism’s mission is to transform the lives of children with autism and empower their families. Working in Denver and the Western Slope, Firefly Autism provides intensive therapy and intervention services for more than 200 children and their families. Their work helps children develop a lifelong love of learning and the skills to interact meaningfully with their communities.
Trail talk: Heritage Series will eye future of trails in Colorado Springs, Pikes Peak region
Susan Davies, Trails and Open Space Coalition
Working, Risking, and Dreaming for Southeast Colorado
At Lamar Community College, students can utilize the now upgraded computer lab to once again drive innovation and improve their community in a new technological landscape.
Broncos put on camp for Boys & Girls Club
Marcus Hill, The Mountain Mail
In Pursuit of Achievement
Growing up a young athlete in Lakewood, Colorado, the Manitou Incline was the pinnacle of training for any and every sport imaginable. Fabled as an almost untouchable feat, the Incline—approximately 2,745 wooden railroad ties/steps stretching 2000 vertical feet in less than a mile—was the most intimidating training challenge.
Broad Philanthropy
Most people would connect El Pomar Foundation's mission directly to philanthropy. But how has our society’s understanding of philanthropy shifted over the last 75 years?
Building blocks: Local group brings awareness, funding to early childhood education
Tracy Chamberlain, The Durango Herald
Extreme Skiing, Environmentalism, Bipolar Disorder: See it all at the Durango Independent Film Festival
As an artistic medium, filmmaking entertains, educates, and examines the human experience – and calls us to action. For the community of Durango, filmmaking plays a key role in enriching the community and economy through the 5-day Durango Independent Film Festival.
Purple Mountains Majesties… Reflection In the Rockies
As I made my way to work, my normal route, I couldn’t help but be captivated by the mountains. The national anthem came to mind, “Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountains majesties…” I imagined Katharine Lee Bates, who originally titled the poem “Pikes Peak,” waking up early on a winter morning to pen these immortal words.
Donors generous to Fort Lewis College
Ann Butler, The Durango Herald
Mountain Futures Fund brings college within grasp
Debra Crawford, Colorado Mountain College
10 Hours and 38 Minutes in the Grand Canyon
It was late May, but the morning air was frigid on the south rim of the Grand Canyon. I was excited but nervous about what lay ahead of me. Our challenge: hiking from the south rim to the north rim in one day.
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