Philanthropic
Holly Creek ladies knit to warm babies across the Front Range
BY BRYN PHINNEY Each year thousands of babies must be sent home from the hospital with nothing more than a disposable diaper and small hospital blanket. But Easter and springtime are about celebrating new life, and the ladies at Holly Creek Life Plan Community are making sure that newborns in need are being wrapped—quite literally—in love. …
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WeeCycle collecting donations to send diapers to Ukrainian families
Local nonprofit hosting fundraiser to send containers of diapers to refugee camps We’ve all seen the heart-wrenching photos and heard stories describing the unimaginable reality millions of Ukrainian families are facing. The question is always, how can we help? Colorado-based nonprofit WeeCycle is answering that question for those looking to help babies and young toddlers …
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Junior Achievement Free Enterprise Center breaks ground in GV
A sunny winter afternoon on March 11 was the setting for over 75 business leaders and supporters of Junior Achievement (JA) Rocky Mountain to gather for the groundbreaking of the JA Free Enterprise Center at 6500 Greenwood Plaza Blvd. in Greenwood Village. Junior Achievement is a worldwide non-profit educational organization whose purpose is “to inspire …
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Generation Wild and Children’s Hospital Colorado partner to bring back “Say Hi With A Snowman” initiative
Generation Wild, a movement from Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO), has announced its partnership with Children’s Hospital Colorado (Children’s Colorado) to bring back the “Say Hi with a Snowman” initiative, a project that pairs patients with volunteers to bring snowman drawings to life. “Last year proved that the simple act of getting creative in the outdoors …
Recycling your old eyeglasses
Denver Lions has a new dropbox The Denver Lions Club (founded in 1917) has been recycling eyeglasses for the benefit of those in need for many years. A new collection box, available to receive your eyeglasses 24/7, has just been installed at the Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Institute on the Anschutz campus of UCHealth at …