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NEW BELGIUM’S ‘CLIPS OF FAITH’ traveling film festival raised $117,656 this year for nonprofits around the country. The third annual traveling film festival put on by the Fort Collins-based brewery hit 18 cities this summer and saw an estimated 16,400 people come out for the homemade films and handmade beers, New Belgium announced this week.
THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO’S student alumni association is hosting the eighth annual Nearly Naked Mile run and clothing drive on the Boulder campus Friday.
BLACKTIE IS SPONSORING A FREE SEMINAR on how to use video to enhance your fundraising and events. It’s 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 15 at Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center, 7800 E Tufts Ave. Register here.
LATEST ‘CAPTURED EVENTS’ ON BLACKTIE
* October 24, 2012 – LIGHT: A Celebration of the McNichols Building
* October 24, 2012 – Young Artists Live Life to the Fullest with Aurora Mental Health Center
* October 20, 2012 – Western Fantasy 2012: “Stars Over the Rockies, Legends of the West”
ADVERTISE YOUR EVENT on Blacktie-Colorado for just $150 a week. Email Brett McCann-Lehl at brett@blacktie-llc.com.
VOLARE SYSTEMS is pleased to sponsor Colorado Give Camp in Colorado Springs this weekend.
DONOR ALLIANCE, the federally-designated, non-profit organ procurement organization and American Association of Tissue Banks accredited tissue bank serving Colorado and most of Wyoming, today announced its receipt of the Foothills Award from Rocky Mountain Performance Excellence, a nonprofit helping organizations improve performance and achieve results.
RICH PHILLIPS’ wife, Meg, and their daughters have followed through with his wish, and then some, by creating the Denver version of the Lustgarten Foundation Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk, one of Colorado’s most prominent memorial run/walks and fundraisers for research. The event – this year’s is Nov. 4 at Sloan’s Lake Park in Denver – started in New York and is named for the former chief executive officer of Cablevision, Marc Lustgarten, who lost his battle with pancreatic cancer at age 52.
THE DENVER CSU ALUMNI NETWORK is looking for projects in the first half of 2013 to participate in as a volunteer group. Email: knpohly@yahoo.com
BLACKTIE’S SISTER COMPANY, Efficient Tickets, is now selling tickets for the Halloween Masquerade Ball, an Oct. 26 Halloween party to raise money for the survivors of the Aurora and Columbine Tragedy. It’s hosted by Phoenix999 a non-profit charity created by the survivors of the Columbine Tragedy and by Friends of Humanity a local volunteer group that helps local charities raise money.
CONSIDER EFFICIENT TICKETS for your next ticketed event. Online ticketing is inexpensive, consumer-friendly and provides your organization with valuable purchasing and entrance data. Contact Brett McCann-Lehl at 303-339-3819.
IMPROVING SCHOOL FOODS IS A HOT TOPIC: It’s one that School District 51 and LiveWell Colorado are taking seriously. Starting on Thursday, the two are partnering up for a two-day training class to teach food managers how to cook food in a healthier way.
HAVING TROUBLE MANAGING DONATION REQUESTS? Blacktie can set up a website for your business or organization that makes it easy for you to be responsive to charity requests and carefully manage all aspects of the process. Here’s a request page we set up for a local company. For information about BT Donation Tracker, call Don Knox at 720-272-0961.
DID YOU KNOW? You can advertise your nonprofit event easily and affordably to 300,000 readers in the 17 Colorado Community Media newspapers from Thornton to Castle Rock? Blacktie offers discounted rates to organizations that have not previously advertised in the CCM publications. These publications include Arvada Press, Castle Rock News-Press, Centennial Citizen, Douglas County News-Press, Englewood Herald, Golden Transcript, Highlands Ranch Herald, Lakewood Sentinel, Littleton Independent, Lone Tree Voice, Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel, Parker Chronicle, Westminster Window, Westsider and Wheat Ridge Transcript. Call Brett McCann-Lehl or Don Knox at 303-832-2903 for more details!
DO YOU HAVE SUGGESTIONS FOR A FUTURE ISSUE OF BLACKTIE FOR BUSINESS? Send an email to the editor, Don Knox.
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